Posted on 01/16/2017 11:07:01 AM PST by equaviator
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts is once again under scrutiny after more offensive audio recordings were released by the independent journalist website Motor City Muckraker which are alleged to be of the mayor making disparaging comments about African American people and elderly women.
The latest four recordings were obtained and released by Motor City Muckraker on Monday. In one of the recordings, a voice compares Black people to chimpanzees. In another recording, the voice ridicules a 60-year-old woman, calling her a "hag." You can listen to one of the recordings below. You can listen to the others on Motor City Muckraker. Click here to hear them all.
These recordings have not been authenticated by FOX 2. Mayor Fouts is expected to be available at an Martin Luther King Jr. day event in Warren where he is announcing a diversity coordinator for the city.
Leaked audio attributed to Warren Mayor Jim Fouts compares black people to chimps Just before the event was to begin, FOX 2's Amy Lange confronted Fouts. He said he would not comment on the recordings.
Below are edited transcripts from the recordings:
"You know, Blacks do look like chimpanzees. I was watching this Black woman with her daughter and they looked like two chimps. Their mouths were elongated up, duck-ish like," one of the recordings says.
"I remember this one kid in my class, I told you, some years ago he said - we were at a party store - he says my dad had rules: only two N****** at a time," another recording says.
"You think I want to date a f****** 60-year-old hag? F*** that s***. I'm not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age, they're all dried up, washed up, burned up," another recording says.
"They are p****** when they are young, and when they get older, they're just mean, hateful dried-up c****," he allegedly said.
Listen to the first recording for yourself in the embed below, courtesy of the Motor City Muckracer (n/a).
The other recordings have been deemed unfit to publish on our site. CLICK HERE
http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2017/01/16/audio-mayor-fouts-compares-black-people-chimps-ridicules-women/
to hear them on the Muckraker's site.
FOX 2 has placed a call to the mayor's office, seeking response. We have not heard back from the office.
Last month, the mayor was alleged to have been caught on tape saying disparaging things about mentally challenged people.
In those recordings, a voice says, "Tonight I am going to meet a bunch of retards. Tonight is retard night." In a second recording, a voice that sounds like Fouts says, "Fine I guess, what good are they, they are dysfunctional human beings. They are not even human beings."
Fouts has repeatedly denied saying those comments, and has said the tapes are phony and were released by Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel. Many have called for Fouts's resignation, and he was fired from his weekly radio show on 910AM.
Fouts has not yet responded to the audio recordings released.
This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 2 for updates.
Watch this DOMINATE the news cycle of the next week or month
“See? What’ve we been telling about these TRUMP people”???
No one knows who this Jim Fouts is.
Sounds like an idiot.
Having lived in the Detroit area, I’d bet my next paycheck that this guy is a Democrat.
I just checked and he’s evidently listed as an Independent.
But, he certainly talks like a Democrat (when they think that those less elite are not listening).
No party identification in the article so must be a Dem. If he were a Repub, it would be the second word in the article. Did a search, but still didn’t find anything saying whether he was a dem or repub.
he is a Republican and is mayor of Warren, MI
and an idiot
According to Wikipedia he was formerly a Republican, currently an Independent.
I thought he was a Bernie supporter.
Save your paycheck, he’s an independent. hile independents usually side with Democrats a generous person might concede you are right, but the vast majority would take your money and run. 8>)
Also according to Wikipedia:
In March 2016, Mayor Jim Fouts claims he was asked by security at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan to refrain from showing excessive enthusiasm[23] for Bernie Sanders
A Bernie supporter?
Never heard of him or his town, but if that recording was him (and if it wasn’t, I’m sure he would have said so), he needs to resign and never hold office again. Idiot.
He is/was a Bernie Supporter....thought i read he was going to be kicked out by Hitlery’s minions during the debate
"You think I want to date a f****** 60-year-old hag? F*** that s***. I'm not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age, they're all dried up, washed up, burned up."So I'm guessing he has hot, young girls lined up outside his door pretty much all the time.
Well at least YOU got two mammals. I usually get insects or worms.................
As mayor, Wikipedia lists his political party as “independent” (right side of page), but as a Republican in 1976, when he ran for the Michigan state house of representatives in the 70th District.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Fouts
But he’ll be miscast as a “Republican”
Sorta like a “White Hispanic” once was
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