Why doesn't Kim Davis just resign?

[underpants]

14. Sounds like it. She became clerk earlier this year and makes more than the Sheriff

Deputy clerk
Davis served as Rowan County chief deputy clerk, reporting to her mother, Jean W. Bailey, for 24 years.[12] Kentucky law permits elected county officials to employ their family members and to determine their compensation; it is common practice in the state.[12]

In 2011, county residents complained about Davis' compensation, an annual wage of $51,812 and an additional $11,301 in overtime and other compensation during 2011.[12] Davis earned substantially more than the county's other chief deputies, including $38,000 for the Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Cline and $36,000 to the Deputy Judge-Executive Jerry Alderman, neither of whom receive overtime pay.[12] The County Fiscal Court reviewed the compensation of clerks in the office and voted unanimously to cut the department's salary budget by one-third for 2012.[12]

2014 election
In 2014, Bailey chose not to run for re-election.[13] Davis then ran for county clerk as a Democrat.

At a candidate forum, Davis said she was best qualified for the position because of her 26 years of experience in the clerk's office.[14] Candidate Elwood Caudill Jr. said he would save taxpayers' money by increasing efficiency and delivering excellent customer services while drawing on his 17 years of experience with public records.[14] Candidate Charlotte Combess said she was qualified for the position because of her experience budgeting for her two businesses and her work for Morehead State University's financial aid and admissions offices.[14]

Davis won the Democratic Party primary,[13] and advanced to the general election against Republican John Cox.[15] She defeated Cox in the general election.[16][17] Following her election, Davis told the Morehead News, "My words can never express the appreciation but I promise to each and every one that I will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter."[1]

On January 5, 2015, she took the oath of office and began serving her four-year term (ends January 7, 2019[18]) as the Rowan County clerk.[19] As county clerk, she receives an annual salary of $80,000.[3][8]