Posted on 02/28/2020 1:56:45 PM PST by conservative98
The head of Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign in North Carolina made a homophobic crack in front of a reporter while talking about Pete Buttigieg during a meeting with local preachers.
The staffer, James Mitchell, started naming Bloomberg’s rivals: “You have Biden, Sanders, Warren, Butti-Jay,” he said, according to a story written by veteran political reporter Ben Jacobs, which was posted in Medium.com.
Mitchell, then gestured toward a minister, Dwayne Walker, and added: “Pastor, you got me saying what you were saying — Butti-Jay,” to laughter in the room.
Mitchell added: “He said something different — I’m cleaning it up.”
It was a riff on “Butti-gay.”
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., is a married gay man.
Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, President & CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, slammed the remark as homophobic.
“Targeting candidates with juvenile nicknames based on personal characteristics is a Trump playbook tactic and further evidence Bloomberg is running in the wrong primary. The state campaign director’s homophobic remarks are not unlike Bloomberg’s past comments targeting lesbians, trans people, women and others.”
Mitchell, in a statement released by the Bloomberg campaign, regretted his remark.
“Someone made an inappropriate remark, I tried to diffuse it at the time. I wish I had been stronger in my response,” he said.
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For which Petey is well-known...
Anybody remember when this “phobic” sh.t started?
When joking around about a fruit became “hate”?
I am retired, so I call him Butt-man.
Mayor Pete left hisself wide open for that poke.
Because faggies lord it over us “breeders” and have for decades.
Buttyfag isn’t “married”, he’s shacked up with another faggie and they have a piece of paper they call a “marriage certificate”.
Come & get me, coppers.
Pete’s a natural campaigner. He loves being on the stump.
Did he get called a South Bender? That’s what I call him....it’s a geographical thing. ;)
Booty jizz.
You can't just think a gay guy is silly any more. You either love him unconditionally or he terrifies you.
Just what was phobic about the remark?
Insulting, maybe. Undeserved, maybe.
But phobic. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
lol
It started in the 1990s but it wasn’t until the late 00s that it became something you heard in the mainstream.
All this incident proves is that everyone is rightfully disgusted by homosexuality, even the leftists who virtue signal about the LGBT community.
Buttygoop!
PPMG is an STD on the body politic.
“homophobic crack”
“Crack pipe” means something entirely different to Butt-gauge
Well, maybe they were thinking about a different kind of crack.
I thought his name was pronounced, butt plug.
So let me get this straight..the fact that someone called Buttplug Mr Buttijay is somehow a bad thing..is Mr. Buttplug saying he doesn’t take it in the rear
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