A councilwoman from Trenton, New Jersey had a truly epic meltdown at work last week and she’s not apologizing for it.
Robin Vaughn is facing calls for her resignation after she launched into an homophobic tirade during a conference call with city officials about coronavirus, unleashing on several of her colleagues.
According to NJ.com, Vaughn went on a “10-minute expletive-laced rant” that included calling the city’s first openly gay mayor, Reed Gusciora, a “pedophile,” a “woman,” and a “bitch ass,” and accusing another city official, Joe Harrison, of performing sex acts on him.
The Trentonian reports:
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She launched into a stream of curse words and personal insults after Gusciora challenged her to name one of the capital city’s “do-nothing” organizations she has criticized on Facebook. At one point, Vaughn, who previously caught heat for defending a colleague’s use of an anti-Semitic slur, called Gusciora a “pedophile,” said the mayor and Harrison weren’t “real men,” and suggested “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.”
At one point during the rant, Vaughn attacked Harrison’s family, shouting: “We don’t have bitch ass men in my family. We don’t have bitch ass men like you and Reed Gusciora in my family. We got real men in my family. Bitch asses! Nothing but a bunch of women. That’s all you are. Bitches! That’s right. Running around here with young men. Reed ain’t nothing but an old pedophile. Bitch ass motherf*ckin’ mayor!”
At another point she told Harrison to “continue to suck Reed Gusciora’s d*ck all you want to, motherf*cker.” Later, she told him to “bend over a little lower” for the mayor.
After the story broke, Vaughn released a statement on Twitter. Instead of, say, apologizing for her antigay remarks, she accused the media of portraying her in a negative light, calling for the “full audio” of the conference call to be released.
In a tweet, Vaughn wrote: “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.”
https://twitter.com/trentonwestward/status/1256760892810821634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1256760892810821634&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.towleroad.com%2F2020%2F05%2Freed-gusciora-2%2F
Well, be careful what you wish for. Because after Vaughn asked that the full recording be released, The Trentonian did just that.
Complete audio of the 53-minute call was published over the weekend and it doesn’t make anyone in the meeting look good, but Vaughn definitely comes off as the absolute worst.
While both Gusciora and Harrison can be heard hurling insults at Vaughn prior to her 10-minute outburst, including calling her “incompetent,” a “child,” and telling her she that she was acting like a “crazy person,” pretty much everyone agrees that the things they said pale in comparison to her blatant homophobia.
Now, the LGBTQ rights group Garden State Equality is calling on Vaughn to resign.
In a statement, the organization says, “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.”
Statement from our Executive Director @Fuscarino on anti-LGBTQ attacks from Trenton Councilwoman Robin Vaughn: pic.twitter.com/17WmzJjUPM
— Garden State Equality (@GSEquality) May 3, 2020
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Chrisk
Calling her incompetent, a child and crazy is very accurate. Her tirade response attacked more then those council members though.
She doesn’t look the type that will just resign though. No doubt go the victim route and play the race card.
mrrasheed
Sounds like you need to resign from your job for racist comments. Nasty ppl like you are so prejudiced that you can’t even take a win that’s in your smug face and not attach a racist angle.
This woman clearly stepped in it and her reckoning is underway. But your idiocy of making it a racial issue undercuts your argument that she was wrong because you just pulled the same crap.
Brian
Except… She probably will play the race card.
Joshooeerr
mrrasheed, can you please point out precisely what you identify as “racist” about this post. I’d be interested to know, since I can’t see it.
dinard38
@Mrrasheed There was nothing racist about Chrisk’s comment. What the hell are you talking about? As a black man I agree with his comment. This biatch is crazy and needs to go. And you can believe that she will play the race card when the calls for her resignation grows louder.
If the others were calling her crazy, childish and incompetent prior to her rant, my guess is that this wasn’t the first time she went on an unprofessional, crazy rant. The things she said were totally uncalled for and they need to put the pressure on her to resign.
Black Pegasus
Resign wench! And don’t come round here no more! lol
Kieran
The sadly ironic part about this is that if Robin had directed this homophobic tirade against Lindsey Graham or Aaron Schock it would be considered acceptable by a lot of morons within the gay community. We’ve got to make it plain so that even the most simple-minded among us can understand: Trying to gay shame someone as a form of attack, whether gay or not, is NEVER acceptable.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Yes because we are SUPPOSED to quietly accept a closeted Gay person consistently voting for and supporting legislation that deprives us of our rights and equality. And openly suppot those seeking to deny our constitutional rights and freedoms….Just recently during one of the worst health crisis in history, the Trump misadministration filed briefs supporting stripping protections preventing healthcare providers from denying services to Gay Americans under the guise of “religious freedom”
That miserable talking skeleton smcubag Trump ally Pat Robinson declared “If a Gay person comes to a Doctor with a broken leg, why should the Doctor be forced to treat them”?
I wonder if you are still receiving cash disbursements for your ignorant noxious reprehensible
comments from the troll farm, cause you pretty much suck at it…..
barryaksarben
ANY gay person who in their job or position makes anti gay laws or makes gay lives hard not only deserve to be outed in the most public way but should be shunned by us all. Making laws that may cause harm or even death to gay people do not deserve their privacy. They do not deserve to have their sex life if all of us are not. If they were private citizens doing no harm to others then yes leave them alone .
Den
Odd that you seem not to understand the difference between calling out the hypocrisy of people like Schock or Graham and a simple tirade based on hatred.
Typically the simple hate based tirades come from the right, and the hatred of hypocrisy comes from the center and left.
Would it have been wrong to out Roy Cohen who made life a living hell for so many Americans?
Should we treat Graham with deference when he calls for the Federal Government not to support “democrat states” but let them flounder?
We do the world a favor when we show that these people are playing their constituents and have no ethics.
Saps48
Kieran, it’s not necessarily acceptable to make homophobic remarks about a perhaps closeted public official; commentator Joy Reid was forced to retract and apologize for several homophobic comments she made about former Florida governor Charlie Crist
torn
I hate people like this. Instead of helping everyone to appreciate each other they seem to have all the time in the world to waste on getting people to hate each other. They discuss me. Better things to do then waste my time with people like her.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
This disgusting vile abhorrent nauseous puddle of puke crunt seems ignorant of the fact that blind hatred of another minority led to lynchings and burning to death of her fellow Blacks….
Tyrone Johnston
Look at you! We hear ya making that rallying cry to round up the troops.
Just sad…
Kangol2
She’s bad news. They now have an ironclad reason to get her out of there. Trenton can do better, and should completely clean house.
missvamp
she just looks crazy- like former crack whore crazy.
garybw
Sometimes people’s truth comes out when they can’t answer the question.
Saps48
This thread is useless without pictures of the boys in the mayor’s suite…
LumpyPillows
I thought we weren’t allowed to acknowledge homophobia in black people. Or that Muslims throw gay men off towers. Aren’t gay white men now acceptable targets for, well, everyone except the right-wing?
Kangol2
You sound like a right-wing wacko with serious racial and religious resentment issues. Please, stop being so fragile and insecure, and get help!
ScottOnEarth
Is it just me or does this lunatic look like a failed realtor from the 80s?….with really bad makeup.