Under state law, some elected officials are required to be bonded.

Hodge says she was denied a bond after City Council member Martin Gatti made a racist comment to the bonding company.

“This councilman told the bonding people ‘this colored girl’ shouldn’t sit as the treasurer for the city of Uniontown,” said Joel Sansone, Hodge’s attorney.

Uniontown refuses to seat first African-American city treasurer

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