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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/michigan-mayor-caught-on-tape-calling-black-people-chimps-and-women-dried-up-cnts/Mayor Jim Fouts of Warren, Michigan came under fire on Monday after audio surfaced of him allegedly using disparaging remarks against African-Americans and women. In recordings obtained by Motor City Muckraker, Fouts reportedly uses the N-word and refers to older women as dried-up c*nts.
Blacks do look like chimpanzees, the voice says in one recording. I was watching this black woman with her daughter and they looked like two chimps.
In one piece of audio, the 74-year-old mayor allegedly explains that he does not date older women.
Think I want to date a f*cking 60-year-old hag? Fouts opines. F*ck that shit. Im not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age they are dried up, washed up burned out.
Wikipedia says he is an Independent . . . sure sounds like a republican to me!
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)but you can see it at the link. He looks like a cadaver! Yikes! Now wonder he's not getting any . . . He sure as hell wouldn't be able to attract any women younger than he is.
ksoze
(2,068 posts)dhol82
(9,351 posts)He probably has a problem even getting a prostitute to service him.
spooky3
(34,401 posts)Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)Or, its a heavily touched up/Photoshop released by his staff.
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Tanuki
(14,914 posts)True Dough
(17,246 posts)That men who reach positions of power think it automatically makes them attractive. My wife is visibly repulsed by Drumpf. She turns the channel when he's on the screen. Yet he thinks he's god's gift to women. This mayor, if the allegations are true, wouldn't be much better.
Not only do I turn the channel, I put my hand over my computer screen if I am trying to read a page that happens to have his face on it.
Unfortunately, it is becoming more difficult because he often appears multiple times on one page.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)which automatically blocks out his face.
airplaneman
(1,239 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)These are for Chrome, but I'll bet there are others, as well.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)He is the poster child for the Walking Dead.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Sanctimonious prick.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,817 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)superpatriotman
(6,246 posts)Erectile dysfunction, pasty and paunchy. That's hot.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)spooky3
(34,401 posts)Like this where some guy is dissing women's looks, they are always more "blessed" in that regard than he is.
safeinOhio
(32,632 posts)74 year old limp dick white guy.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)Mayor Jim Fouts had a "soul brother" in Butz.
http://tinyurl.com/zpax4l9
I grew up in the segregated south. It was ugly, demeaning and depressing to witness what African Americans were forced to endure 24/7.
Anyone who thinks we've risen above our racial caste system in this country is sadly mistaken. Because we still have a long way to go.
spooky3
(34,401 posts)progressoid
(49,933 posts)Why. why why why, would she want to be near that creep?
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)redwitch
(14,940 posts)Nobody is born this way, they are raised to think like this. Fuck him and the family who raised him!
hunter
(38,301 posts)The ugliness inside of Mr. Fouts is clearly oozing out of him. Creepiness level ten.
I know we all suffer bad photographs occasionally, but rarely anything like that.
Maybe it's a medical condition, or he was born that way, and I should just shut up. But given his words, I kinda doubt it.
He even looks like a Nazi. Put an SS uniform on him and he'd be perfect playing the part of a sadistic concentration camp commandant in a low budget war movie.
BTW, Mayor is officially a non-partisan office in Warren Michigan.
pansypoo53219
(20,952 posts)CousinIT
(9,217 posts)brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Fouts insists the audio recordings, which allegedly captured him making racist comments about black people and vulgar sexist comments about women, have been fabricated by Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel. The source of the recordings is not known and was not reported.
"Those are engineered tapes by Mark Hackel and his friends. That is not my voice," Fouts said Monday as he left a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Warren. "Those are engineered tapes inspired by Mark Hackel, just like the last one. It is not me. That is not me at all."
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/warren-mayor-jim-fouts-says-new-racist-sexist-audio-recordings-are-not-him
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... were not him either.
izzybella
(236 posts)I think this kind of ugliness will become normal now.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Warren is a "suburb of Detroit, it is the third largest city in the state of Michigan.
Let me apologize in advance for the "I told you so/ in your face" during the primaries someone posted an OP touting the fact that the "independent" Mayor of Michigan's third largest city was supporting sander's (He went on to vote for tRump). At the time I tried to tell people that this was no major victory or coup for sanders ... this guy (Fouts is a racist, homophobic piece of trash) that no one would want the support of. Yes voters in my fair city keep electing/ re-electing him .... warren is in Macomb county .... you can always win in Macomb County by running on racism!
Sorry, I feel vindicated in my critique of this scum
progressoid
(49,933 posts)So this probably won't be his downfall then? Looks like this isn't his first controversy.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)remember your critique of this racist trumpster clown......vindicated BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... but it was infuriating reading that my racist scum-bucket Mayor (didn't know of his hatred of the handicapped and cognitively challenged yet) was some kind "hero" ... he is and always has been a HORRIBLE person.
JI7
(89,239 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)Wikipedia has him as a former Repub.
In 1976, James Fouts ran as a Republican for the Michigan state house of representatives in the 70th District
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)rollin74
(1,969 posts)he would be a perfect fit
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)Before he is allowed to fill his Viagra.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)who spews this kind of true obscenity is supporting racism and misogyny. If you support racism and misogyny, guess what that makes you?
MichMan
(11,864 posts)For the record, I don't or never have lived in Warren, but did live much of my life in the Detroit suburbs, so I do keep up with all the local news.
Fouts made his reputation in the 70's & 80's as the local community gadfly and rabble rouser so to speak. He would attend every city meeting & loved holding the local politicians accountable while being unrelenting most of the time. He was elected to the City Council where he served a couple decades and then was elected mayor approx. 10 yrs ago.
As I recall, he started out with a lot of good reforms, but over the years seemed to enjoy his power a little too much and became the type of bombastic politician he once seemed to despise.
He has had a feud with Macomb County Exec. Mark Hackel for awhile and has accused Hackel of creating these "fake" recordings