Matt Bittle’s Twitter is alive and well. Better than ever in fact, now that he no longer is encumbered of any OTOH crap that you do if you’re reporting on Leg Hall. You need to be reading it.
That’s where I got the link to this story.
Career nonentity Gerald Brady has finally signed his political death warrant by, well, let me just quote for you:
In a June 27 email discussing legislation intended to protect sex workers, a Wilmington state legislator used an anti-Asian slur and other sexual language, referring to sex workers as “chink broads.”
The comments from Democratic state Rep. Gerald Brady was in an email exchange with an advocate living outside of Delaware. The advocate had shared a Princeton University study that showed how the presence of strip clubs led to a decrease in sex crimes in a New York City police precinct.
The advocate connected the study to a 30-year period when Rhode Island decriminalized prostitution, and called on Delaware lawmakers to do something similar to protect sex workers
“Is the dude basically saying, if we provide free Blowjobs for Uncle Pervie there will be few rapes and few chink broads will be shipped in CONEX containers to the Port of Wilmington??” Brady replied from his official government email address.
Brady literally had no excuse for his actions:
“There is no excuse I can offer that explains my embarrassing and shameful words that insulted, stereotyped and dehumanized an entire culture while making light of a serious human rights crisis,” Brady wrote.
If you read the words in his apology, and if you know Gerald Brady, you know that his apology was written by someone other than Gerald Brady. Not necessarily because of whether he was sincere or not, but because Brady is simply incapable of putting thoughts into the form of coherent sentences. Anyone who listened to him trying to floor-manage the $15 minimum wage bill knows that.
What he said was utterly inexcusable. If he had any self-respect and/or respect for the institution, he’d resign his House seat now.
Which is precisely what he should do.
