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This Guy Is No Longer School Board President After Calling a Mom ‘Chubby Wubby’
New York Magazine ^ | 5/14/2014 | Joe Coscarelli

Posted on 05/14/2014 11:49:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Ray Cote, the charming fellow pictured here, has resigned as the board of education president in Mahopac, New York, just north of the city, after a hot mike caught him calling a parent fat. "This one here, chubby wubby, she gets fatter and fatter at every meeting. She really does," said Cote at a board gathering that was being streamed live online. A committed mother watching at home put the clip on YouTube, like a small-town V. Stiviano, and now the jerk is gone.

"It totally tells us that he cares nothing for the community that he says he upholds," said the concerned parent with a working knowledge of how to go viral. "Nothing. He cares nothing for us."

"My words were inappropriate and do not reflect my feelings or attitudes," said Cote in a statement. "I will strive to regain the trust and respect of the community." Cote, it turns out, belongs to a "diversity and sensitivity team" created after students posted racially insensitive comments on Twitter earlier this year. Or he used to.


TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: homophobia
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To: Texan5; dfwgator

They put Al Capone away for tax evasion, even though that wasn’t the worst thing he did.


41 posted on 05/14/2014 12:50:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

....so chubby is now the new N-word equivalent?


42 posted on 05/14/2014 12:51:10 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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To: dfwgator; discostu

If it is like this state, all you have to do is breathe and know the right people to hold that position, hence it attracts idiots. I’d use the howling to advantage, if I were king-dig into all the dealings of the board-there is probably enough there for months of real outrage, firings and lawsuits...


43 posted on 05/14/2014 12:52:26 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: jrg
You’d think fat people would have thick skins.

No, you'd think it was thing because it has to be stretched to cover that volume — much like a balloon.

44 posted on 05/14/2014 12:59:21 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Texan5
Oh, good grief-now we all have a constitutional right not to be offended?

No. You would expect the guy who oversees education in your district not to be stupid.

45 posted on 05/14/2014 1:09:23 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck

You can’t expect anyone to be anything they should now-especially when an institution is federally funded.


46 posted on 05/14/2014 1:45:40 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TexasCajun

He doesn’t look like he misses too many meals, neither.


47 posted on 05/14/2014 1:46:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Texan5

$100k for a ‘diversity training’ advocate to come stage some teambuilding exercises ought to cover it.


48 posted on 05/14/2014 1:47:18 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: GeronL

Actually I think it’s pretty funny. But then I’m not at all PC and have a weird sense of humor. Maybe he should have described her as the mother who needed to concentrate on growing taller so she wouldn’t have a weight problem.


49 posted on 05/14/2014 2:21:46 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: nickcarraway

He’s gay? Oh, no wonder the bitchy remark.


50 posted on 05/14/2014 2:39:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

Do you know any straight men who use the term, “chubby wubby?”


51 posted on 05/14/2014 2:43:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

My gaydar failed yet again.


52 posted on 05/14/2014 2:45:43 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Grams A

It IS funny in an objective way. I laughed when I first heard the story. Of course, that shouldn’t stop us from beating the lib to pulp over it, hee-hee.


53 posted on 05/14/2014 2:47:11 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: fungoking

“Hard to tell which woman he is talking about in the video.”

The fat one, obviously. It was impolitic of him for sure. But the truth. The truth shall set you free. And it did.


54 posted on 05/14/2014 2:49:20 PM PDT by EDINVA
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