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Thursday, December 17, 2009
MeckCo Official Calls Colleague's Dead Son "A Homo"
Meet Bill James, Republican County Commissioner in Mecklenburg. He's a dick.Tuesday night during a County Commission meeting in which a majority of commissioners agreed to offer domestic-partner benefits to county workers in same-sex relationships starting in 2011, Commissioner Vilma Leake spoke about her own son's death from AIDs, following which Commissioner James leaned over to Commissioner Leake and asked: "Your son was a homo, really?"
Leake responded: "You're going to make me hurt you. Don't do that to me. Don't talk about my son."
Yesterday Mecklenburg County Commission Chair Jennifer Roberts said that James should apologize for using the slur to a fellow commissioner.
Ever the jerk, Commissioner James has refused to apologize.
Labels: Bill James, homophobia, Mecklenburg County Commission, Vilma Leake
