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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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; buttigieg; democratclownshow; homosexualagenda
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To: conservative98

BFD dont mater

Next story, thank you


21 posted on 02/28/2020 2:15:32 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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Buttgig.....


22 posted on 02/28/2020 2:15:49 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: conservative98

Nothing “phobic” about laughing at homosexuals.


23 posted on 02/28/2020 2:18:26 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: conservative98
the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., is a married gay man. filthy sodomite.

Fixed it

24 posted on 02/28/2020 2:18:39 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: dead

Is that real or Photoshopped?


25 posted on 02/28/2020 2:18:53 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: conservative98

Hmm, if only I had to choose between cancer and BloombergIdiot..../s


26 posted on 02/28/2020 2:19:16 PM PST by cranked
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To: dead

Someone here used the term Homo-nauseated.

That sums it up.

I am not phobic...I am nauseated.


27 posted on 02/28/2020 2:22:16 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: dp0622

Many years ago and it always irritated me. Phobic is an irrational fear of something. No one is afraid of these people. Maybe we should have been. They have corrupted the culture almost beyond recognition.


28 posted on 02/28/2020 2:22:29 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: conservative98

This is known as a “Butticrack.”


29 posted on 02/28/2020 2:23:02 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Da Coyote
I do not think it means what they think it means.

They can redefine it any way they want and who will object? They redefined "gay", they redefined "marriage", so they can redefined "phobia".

30 posted on 02/28/2020 2:24:07 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: The people have spoken

It’s real photoshopped.


31 posted on 02/28/2020 2:24:17 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: conservative98

CHINESE MIKE


32 posted on 02/28/2020 2:28:21 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: rrrod

Everyone knows something is wrong with so-called “mayor pete”. His behavior and thinking are maladjusted, at best.


33 posted on 02/28/2020 2:32:58 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: cgbg

I just call him the Sodomite who looks like Howdy Doody. Or Alfred E. Newman. And I’m still working.


34 posted on 02/28/2020 2:34:31 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: dp0622; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

“Homophobia” is a high holy sin for Demonrats. Bloomberg needs to quit the campaign immediately and spend the rest of his life kowtowing to and funding radical Sodomite candidates and causes.


35 posted on 02/28/2020 2:37:12 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: conservative98

It’s not homophobic. Some people just have a natural born aversion to homosexuals. It’s a condition called normal. The Left is trying conversion therapy on a grand scale, to force everyone to accept it as the new normal.


36 posted on 02/28/2020 2:38:48 PM PST by robel
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To: hal ogen

First and foremost, he was born and raised a Communist.

Second, he was a rotten and incompetent Mayor of a troubled, racially-divided city.

Third, he likes to stick his penis into another man’s filthy anus and vice-versa.


37 posted on 02/28/2020 2:39:44 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: conservative98

Buttijay is actually one of the nice nicknames being used.

I call him Mean Little Pete Buttplug, and that’s the nicest name for him I can come up with.


38 posted on 02/28/2020 2:42:11 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: robel

I am not homophobic if people keep their private life private I have NO problem with them at all!! I will say one thing though that mayor Pete and his partner kissing in public makes me want to VOMIT it just turns my stomach!!!


39 posted on 02/28/2020 2:46:28 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: gibsonguy

“Homo” means “self.” Phobic means “fear of.” I am not afraid of myself therefore I am not homophobic.


40 posted on 02/28/2020 2:46:36 PM PST by forgotten man
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