{"id":23851,"date":"2025-06-21T02:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/?p=23851"},"modified":"2025-06-21T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:30:07","slug":"ryan-webb-expected-to-be-removed-from-muncie-land-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/ryan-webb-expected-to-be-removed-from-muncie-land-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Webb Expected to be Removed From Muncie Land Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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6.21.2025 \/ News \/ munciepostdemocrat.com<\/u><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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MUNCIE, Ind. \u2014<\/span> The Muncie Land Bank initiated a process to remove board member Ryan Webb on Friday morning after recent social media posts, including a photo of a rainbow-colored swastika on Facebook. <\/span>Webb, a mayoral appointment to the board earlier this year, <\/span>threatened litigation before voting in favor of his own removal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision at the June 20th meeting comes after an executive letter and previous non-actionable meeting where concerns over Webb’s continual posts on social media were raised. Webb’s posts include a joke where he claimed to be a Black transgender woman, posting a yard sign with the words “trans women are insane men,” and recently an image of a rainbow swastika on the 1st of June.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year Mayor Dan Ridenour made a contentious decision to not reappoint Associate Urban Planning Professor John West to the board, instead appointing both <\/span>Webb and<\/span> himself. <\/span>Ridenour months later told the board his reason for choosing Webb was to teach him how to work with people. Muncie <\/span>City Council was later able to bring West back to the board, after another appointee of the Land Bank Jim Lowe was appointed to the newly created Ethics Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n

When serving as a council member for Delaware County, Webb had been especially known for his social media statements when in <\/span>2023, <\/span>he appeared on several media outlets after his joke about being Black transgender woman. After losing his primary for reelection last year by 68 votes he <\/span>filed for a recount<\/a><\/span>, referencing what he believed to be possible interference by a “good ol’ boys club” working against him. Republicans who were aligned with Webb believed his loss was due to cross-over votes by Democratic voters who were resentful about his reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Executive Director Nate Howard told Webb and the public during the meeting that it was not a political decision and it was not the recently created code of conduct used <\/span>for the decision, as Webb claimed. The board instead leaned into the statutes that allow them to remove a member. Howard told Webb: <\/span>“I never thought in a million years that we’d have to do this. And I didn’t want to, my thought was this guy’s a potential asset, let’s figure out how to use him. The code of conduct was an attempt to actually, with you, do something so we can respond a bit to the complaints we’ve been getting, including you in the process, and just invite you to show a little bit of restraint. […] <\/span>“The time that I have spent on this is ridiculous, and I don’t want to waste anymore time because it’s not responsible. It’s not being accountable to what I’m supposed to be doing here.”<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Ryan Webb Expected to be Removed From Muncie Land Bank 6.21.2025 \/ News \/ munciepostdemocrat.com MUNCIE, Ind. \u2014 The Muncie Land Bank initiated a process to remove board member Ryan Webb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23851"}],"version-history":[{"count":128,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23983,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23851\/revisions\/23983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munciepostdemocrat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}