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Mike Bloomberg staffer in hot water for homophobic crack about Pete Buttigieg
NY Post ^ | February 28, 2020 | 4:37pm | Carl Campanile

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bloomberg; buttigieg; democratclownshow; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 02/28/2020 1:56:45 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
homophobic crack

For which Petey is well-known...

2 posted on 02/28/2020 1:58:04 PM PST by TomServo (See my tagline)
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To: conservative98

Anybody remember when this “phobic” sh.t started?

When joking around about a fruit became “hate”?


3 posted on 02/28/2020 1:58:26 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: conservative98

I am retired, so I call him Butt-man.


4 posted on 02/28/2020 1:59:57 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: conservative98
He can take it. He's unflappable.


5 posted on 02/28/2020 2:00:00 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: conservative98

Mayor Pete left hisself wide open for that poke.


6 posted on 02/28/2020 2:00:24 PM PST by moovova
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To: dp0622

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.


7 posted on 02/28/2020 2:01:48 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: moovova

Pete’s a natural campaigner. He loves being on the stump.


8 posted on 02/28/2020 2:02:50 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: conservative98

Did he get called a South Bender? That’s what I call him....it’s a geographical thing. ;)


9 posted on 02/28/2020 2:03:50 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: cgbg

Booty jizz.


10 posted on 02/28/2020 2:04:16 PM PST by 03A3 (FTNFL)
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To: dp0622
Phobic isn't hate - it means fear, an irrational all-consuming fear.

You can't just think a gay guy is silly any more. You either love him unconditionally or he terrifies you.

11 posted on 02/28/2020 2:04:45 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: conservative98

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.


12 posted on 02/28/2020 2:04:56 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: dead

lol


13 posted on 02/28/2020 2:06:49 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: dp0622

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.


14 posted on 02/28/2020 2:09:18 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: conservative98

Buttygoop!


15 posted on 02/28/2020 2:10:01 PM PST by PGR88
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To: conservative98

PPMG is an STD on the body politic.


16 posted on 02/28/2020 2:10:23 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TomServo

“homophobic crack”

“Crack pipe” means something entirely different to Butt-gauge


17 posted on 02/28/2020 2:11:50 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: LeoTDB69

Well, maybe they were thinking about a different kind of crack.


18 posted on 02/28/2020 2:12:36 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: conservative98

I thought his name was pronounced, butt plug.


19 posted on 02/28/2020 2:12:42 PM PST by A Cyrenian (Send everyone back to their states and let the states pay for their congress electives.)
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To: conservative98

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


20 posted on 02/28/2020 2:13:15 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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