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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 03:49 PM Oct 2021

Antimasker Who Used Gay Slur at Lawmaker Is Now Dead of COVID

Paul Kendall, who ran for office several times without success, used the slur toward Chris Constant, a member of the Anchorage Assembly, during a September 29 meeting on a proposed mask mandate for the city. The assembly is Anchorage’s governing body, similar to a city council.

At the meeting, many residents who opposed the mandate spoke to the council. When Kendall took the mike, he said to Constant, “I thought you were just a cocksucker, but you’re a coward,” as documented on video by The Alaska Landmine, a news website. Some people cheered Kendall, who was then escorted from the building. He was later arrested for trespassing.

“I’ve been called worse by better,” Constant, who supports the mandate, said when the meeting closed. “The part that in fact shocked me to silence was when roughly 200 people cheered zealously,” Constant said. Mayor Dave Bronson apologized for not speaking in Constant’s defense at the time, saying he was caught off guard.

“Paul is now a victim of the global elite.” The post was in a Facebook group called “Alaskans Against Vaccines * Bioweapon Injections.”

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/29/antimasker-who-used-gay-slur-anchorage-lawmaker-now-dead-covid

Paul Kendall died October 27, 2021

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Antimasker Who Used Gay Slur at Lawmaker Is Now Dead of COVID (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 OP
No loss. niyad Oct 2021 #1
Exactly my first thought... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #2
Oh, how sad. Behind the Aegis Oct 2021 #3
Someone here said that? Shocked. It demeans gays and it demeans women. marble falls Oct 2021 #6
All you can say about him is that he was a stupid bigot. Haggard Celine Oct 2021 #4
Karma LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #5
World's a better place with him not in it. Grokenstein Oct 2021 #7
ugh Skittles Oct 2021 #8
Congratulations! GemDigger Oct 2021 #9
What a difference a few weeks can make! KPN Oct 2021 #10
I'll root around my bag of sympathy and get back to you. Solly Mack Oct 2021 #11
More please Traildogbob Oct 2021 #12
Good people die from it too. twodogsbarking Oct 2021 #13
LOL Glad he's dead. Sayonara motherfucker! Lucky Luciano Oct 2021 #14
Makes a person think. edbermac Oct 2021 #15
Not surprising in the least. ShazzieB Oct 2021 #16
Gee, what a shame. 😁 SergeStorms Oct 2021 #17
Womp, womp. paleotn Oct 2021 #18
My first thought is that anyone that multigraincracker Oct 2021 #19
He's a victim of the global elite. Permanut Oct 2021 #20
Irony nt XanaDUer2 Nov 2021 #21

Behind the Aegis

(53,934 posts)
3. Oh, how sad.
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 03:59 PM
Oct 2021

Did that appear sincere? Asshole, maskhole, hole in the ground...that's how it often plays out. Too bad, so sad...

As for "cocksucker", I am so confused. Here, I was told it wasn't a gay slur because some women will suck a cock, so therefore, hurling that comment at a man isn't really homophobic.

Wow. Must go do something more productive, too much in a single post, I may hurt myself.

Haggard Celine

(16,843 posts)
4. All you can say about him is that he was a stupid bigot.
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 04:02 PM
Oct 2021

That's a horrible way to be remembered, but he earned it.

ShazzieB

(16,348 posts)
16. Not surprising in the least.
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 06:37 PM
Oct 2021

Dude looks like a poster kid for "high risk of dying from covid."

In saying this, I am neither fat shaming or age shaming (I am old and on the fluffy side myself), merely pointing out that advanced age and excess weight are two of the highest risk factors for not surviving covid. Anyone that high risk who is antimask and antivax is tempting fate, to say the least, which is just one reason I scurried off to get vaxxed as soon as I could.

SergeStorms

(19,190 posts)
17. Gee, what a shame. 😁
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 06:39 PM
Oct 2021

As far as the cheering Alaskan covidiots go....what else would you expect from the rugged individualists - many fugitives from justice themselves - Alaska seems to attract.

Paul Kendall will be missed by very few.

multigraincracker

(32,656 posts)
19. My first thought is that anyone that
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 06:59 PM
Oct 2021

homophobic is fighting there own demons. The more they judge others, the less they have look at their own desires. Other than that, I just don’t understand it.

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