Meet Beverly Goldstein. She’s currently running for Ohio’s 11th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Last week, the 70-year-old self-proclaimed “MAGA candidate” tweeted some bizarro claim that the only reason a new non-discrimination law protecting LGBTQ people passed in Ohio was because black people in Cleveland are illiterate and don’t attend weekly worship services.
Goldstein is running against black Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who wasted no time putting out a short statement saying the tweet was “ill-informed, racist and homophobic” before adding she wouldn’t dignify it with any further response.
Meanwhile, Goldstein’s husband, attorney Michael Goldstein, doubled down on his wife’s racism when he told Cleveland.com:
How about we take this to the next level?
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If most of them understood that this ordinance would allow transgender males, or sex offenders who masquerade as transgender males, to use women’s bathrooms regularly used by mothers and daughters, thereby endangering the safety of girls and women, they probably would have brought pressure to bear on their elected county representatives not to bring the resolution in the first place. But those who cannot read cannot be expected to know about the negative effects of the resolution.
Just to be clear: By “them” and “they” and “those”, Mr. Goldstein is referring to illiterate black people who don’t go to church.
The next day, in a presumed effort to prove she’s not racist, Goldstein posted a picture of herself with four black security guards at the National Action Network Midwest Conference:
Security detail provided today @ National Action Network Midwest Conference @ Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, 105th St. CLE, by Black Man’s Army. Gentleman far right sews his own uniforms & always impeccably dressed. #OH11#Beverly4Congress#OurPeopleFirst pic.twitter.com/EO1tDq3WjO
— Beverly4Congress (@BevGoldstein) September 28, 2018
Then she pivoted and posted some nonsense about “bathroom safety”:
3. When implementation rises to the level of ENDANGERMENT of others, I will oppose such ordinances, laws and regulations 100% of the time.
Take it to the bank??(2/2) pic.twitter.com/InrqwfhTmp
— Beverly4Congress (@BevGoldstein) October 1, 2018
When all else fails, blame trans people.
Important to note: This is the second time Goldstein has challenged Fudge. The last time, Fudge won in a landslide victory with 80.3 percent of the vote.
DCguy
Because Republicans hate minorities.
Scout
Don’t generalize. It only increases divisive rhetoric and hate without corroboration. Generalizations can rarely be corroborated.
Kangol
@DCguy, the GOP sure does like to keep white supremacists, Nazi-sympathizers and fascists in its orbit, and that includes the Orange Oaf in the White House.
DCguy
@Scout
If my comment was in any way incorrect you are welcome to supply proof.
gymmuscleboy
@Kangol How is Trump a white supremacist? Or a Nazi sympathiser?
gymmuscleboy
@DCguy Seeing as you are the one making the claim, I would say it is incumbent on you to supply proof – that all republications hate all minorities.
Mack
Just another ass-backward Republican filled with hatred.
Ashke113
This old bitch……
jkthsnk
Trans men don’t use women’s bathrooms you f’n idiot.
Kangol
A typical racist, Republican idiot, no surprise there! She’s going to lose in a landslide too!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Madam Goldstein, just so the record would show, no one would follow your unhinged racist ass into the washroom, and that includes your scumbag husband.
masterwill7
How can these morrons get a stage in the US???
misterjack
This is why gay people should RUN AWAY from the Republican Party. You can pretend they will come around to accepting your “homosexual lifestyle,” but you’re only fooling yourselves. This VILE WOMAN is the FACE of the REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEY HATE YOU. Part of the Republican Platform is AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Let that sink in. A vote for a Republican is a VOTE AGAINST YOUR OWN INTEREST.
Bob Scardino
@scout: Miss Jean Louise, please don’t correct the adults.