NJ city councilor goes on unhinged 10-minute anti-gay tirade during coronavirus meeting

[Behind the Aegis]

Robin Vaughn, a city councilwoman for Trenton, New Jersey called the city’s first openly gay mayor, Reed Gusciora, a “pedophile,” “a woman” and a “b*tch *ss” and also attacked another city council member during a 10-minute rant she delivered while on a Saturday conference call to discuss the city’s coronavirus planning.

Vaughn’s rant started when the mayor asked her to name one of the local “do-nothing local organizations run by [the mayor’s] friends” that Vaughn had publicly criticized on social media, according to The Trentonian.

Soon after, she called the mayor a “pedophile,” and said, “The only thing [Gusciora] brought into City Hall is a bunch of young boys, and they’re sitting up there in the mayor’s suite.”

When fellow City Councilman Joe Harrison tried to intervene, he called Vaugh a “crazy person,” and she replied, “Why don’t you go find your father, Joe Harrison? Go ask your whore-*ss mom who your father is. Everybody in this city knows who my father is, motherf*cker,” in a reference to Harrison’s estranged father. Harrison responded, “Be careful what you say, ugly.”

Although he later clarified that he meant Vaughn’s speech was “ugly,” she told Harrison that he could “continue to suck Reed Gusciora’s d*ck all you want to, motherf*cker.”

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This is the same BIGOT who defended an anti-Semitic slur, only to "apologize" for it later. She should be FIRED or RECALLED or whatever it is!

[ProfessorGAC]

1. How Do Such Foul Mouthed Jerks Get Elected?

There are even people with matching politics that would find that a bridge too far!
I know some conservatives that are quite straight laced. I can't imagine those folks thinking this behavior is acceptable.
(BTW: I know them. I'd never hang out with them.)

[jberryhill]

5. The Councilor in question is not a conservative

The audio is something from 29:30 on:

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/trentonian.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/b5/cb54679e-8d60-11ea-87dc-1bdc20bd5470/5eaefc091f5a0.audio.mp3

I find it astounding that, at a loss for an insult, she states that the Mayor and his associates are "women".


https://www.trentonian.com/news/lgbtq-group-calls-on-robin-vaughn-to-resign-after-audio-confirms-she-used-homophobic-slurs/article_cf25c27e-8d5f-11ea-abd4-c323c96a4ecb.html

[ProfessorGAC]

8. You're Right!

A woman uses "woman" as an insult. Odd.
And, I'm quite surprised that sentiment is not from a conservative.
But after reading more of the exchange, that whole thing was a clusterfuck!
There's something under the surface here!

[jberryhill]

9. 2008, California

President Obama wins with 61% of the vote.

Marriage equality is defeated with 52% of the vote.

What that means is that there was a sizeable chunk of California voters, somewhere around 9ish percent of California voters, who voted for Obama and against marriage equality.

In the immediate aftermath of that vote, a number of DUers were banned for expressing their belief about where those votes came from.

The Washington Post puts it this way:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/03/26/how-proposition-8-passed-in-california-and-why-it-wouldnt-today/

The discrepancy? African American voters, who were overwhelmingly in favor of banning same sex marriage (70 percent supported Proposition 8) even as they supported Obama even more heavily (94 percent). And, to a lesser degree, Hispanic voters followed that same trend -- backing Prop. 8 by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin while giving President Obama 74 percent.

The explanation? Many largely black churches supported Prop. 8 while Hispanics, a heavily Catholic community, were more naturally inclined to side with their faith -- and against gay marriage.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. I Did Know That

Good reminder.
The move toward marriage equality was indeed, slow to gain momentum in many minority communities.

[Duncan Grant]

11. Salt for that wound: Animal rights were expanded (a good thing, btw)

“(November 4, 2008) was a good day at the polls for California's chickens. Proposition 2, prohibiting the confinement of farm animals without allowing them to run around, passed with 63% of the vote.”

[jberryhill]

13. Get this:

https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/trenton-rally-planned-to-support-vaughn/

The Nubian News, a Trenton-based African American newspaper, is hosting a rally for men to show their support of embattled Councilwoman Robin Vaughn.

The rally, set for 11 AM Thursday at the Nubian News office, comes as the state’s most powerful Democrats are calling on Vaughn to resign for making homophobic statements on a weekend conference call.

[Duncan Grant]

14. Oh my! (to steal a phrase)

You know, there’s no way to have an objective conversation about that intersection here. That’s a murder hornet’s nest.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Yup.

"Animal Farm" immediately springs to mind.

[Mariana]

7. Their constituents agree with them, and approve of such behavior.

That's how.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Well, that is really not a good look for Ms. Vaughn now is it?

She most definitely needs to GO, and I mean YESTERDAY.

In case anyone is wondering, here's a pic of the Mayor and Councilwoman ...

[sheshe2]

3. That was beyond ugly.

Unbelievable, she needs to be fired.

[gratuitous]

4. Harrison later has to clarify what he meant when he said "ugly"

Has anyone asked Vaughn if she'd like to "clarify" any of her remarks, or is that only for Harrison?

Maybe no more weekend phone conferences? I think that might be cutting into Robin Vaughn's drinking time.

[Maraya1969]

6. Here's the audio. It starts around 22 minutes I believe.

https://newjerseyglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Recoring_5-2-20_Council-Briefing-1.m4a

[BlueLucy]

12. I'm high.

Try listening while stoned. Lol. I laughed my ass off.