CUMMING — Prior to the Cumming City Council’s meeting Tuesday morning to review the findings of an impeachment investigation panel, about a dozen protestors gathered outside city hall to show support for Councilman Rupert Sexton.

Sexton is facing the possibility of impeachment for allegedly releasing a list of city employees’ insurance and personal financial information.

In backing Sexton, most of the protestors held signs critical of Cumming Mayor H. Ford Gravitt, his girlfriend Angie Mullinax and City Attorney Dana Miles.

The three have been at the center of controversy since a list surfaced online last month purportedly showing that Miles and Mullinax are receiving insurance coverage from Cumming, though neither is reportedly a city employee.

Citing his position as city attorney, Miles has said that he is eligible for such coverage, while Mullinax’s employment status has been disputed.

City Administrator Gerald Blackburn has said Mullinax works part time for the city, while Sexton has maintained she doesn’t.

Tuesday morning, protestor Chris Coleman said he didn’t think it was right for Mullinax to receive city insurance.

“We’re sitting out here protesting the mayor of Cumming,” Coleman said. “He’s been mayor for 40 years, and he’s had his girlfriend on the insurance of the city for the past 10 years and she’s not a city employee to the tune of $75,000.”

Gravitt has led the city of about 5,600 residents since 1971.

“I’m a law-abiding citizen of the city of Cumming, and I pay $500 a month for my wife and I’s insurance, and we do plenty for the city. I don’t think it’s right,” Coleman said.

He added that he wasn’t necessarily pro-Sexton.

“I don’t have much of an opinion on Councilman Sexton, because I don’t know him or know anything about him, but I know he brought it to the mayor’s attention and [the mayor’s] trying to impeach him because of it,” he said. “So the little I know about Sexton I like. I don’t appreciate what the mayor is trying to do.”

Coleman said that in his opinion the mayor was “stealing from the city of Cumming” and that Gravitt had been on office for too long.

“He’s been they mayor longer than I’ve been alive,” Coleman said. “It’s hard for him to be relevant.”