A politician is facing calls to resign after falsely claiming that a colleague was a pedophile because he is gay. Councilwoman Robin Vaughn, from Trenton in New Jersey, launched into a foul-mouthed tirade at the town’s Mayor Reed Gusciora on Saturday after he upbraided her on remarks she’d made about his support for charities on social media.
Vaughn called Gusciora a ‘pedophile’ and added that ‘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.’ The bigot’s remarks, published by The Trentonian, also hit out at another councillor called Joe Harrison who stood up for Gusciora.
She said: ‘Continue to suck Reed Gusciora’s dick all you want to, motherfucker.’ Vaughn embarked on the rant during a conference call to discuss the city’s coronavirus response, and has since claimed the hateful slurs were taken out of context.
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She tweeted: ‘Trentonians, since I don’t have the privilege of having friends who are owners and/or editors of newspapers who will only write good things about me or my side of a story, then I will request the full audio or transcript be released so you, the residents and taxpayers of Trenton, will have the full context of the conference call.’
But Vaughn’s remarks cut no ice with LGBT rights groups, with Christian Fuscarino of Garden State Liberty among those calling for her removal. He said: ‘Councilwoman Vaughn is unfit to serve the people of Trenton.
‘There’s no need to parse words here: for her hateful anti-LGBTQ language and defending the anti-Semitic slurs of others, she must resign. Her words are an attack on the diversity of Trenton’s community, the city’s elected leadership, and our state as a whole. Any decent-minded New Jerseyan who believes in the success and future of our state’s capital should denounce this hateful rhetoric and call for her to step down immediately.’
Vaugh was previously forced to apologize after coming to the defense of a colleague who used an anti-Semitic slur.
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