Mayor Jim Fouts is an elected official in Warren, Michigan. Mr. Fouts sounds like quite a piece of work as new audio recordings of him speaking freely seem to suggest that Mayor Fouts is a racist and sexist asshole.
In previous recordings, Fouts made crude statements about disabled people, prompting calls for his resignation. He also was fired from his weekly radio show on 910AM Radio Superstation.
Fouts, a Democrat, has denied making the statements, saying the recordings were engineered to sound like him. But audio experts disagree.
Here’s some recordings of what sounds like Fouts discussing how black people look like chimpanzees.
Here’s an old Fouts anecdote where the punchline is racism and the N-word.
And here, the mayor explains how as women get older that become “dried up old c!@$”
Mayor Fouts was fired from his weekly radio show just before Christmas after it was alleged that he had made some equally repulsive remarks about disabled people.
Fouts was quickly removed from his Saturday radio show after the audio recordings surfaced.
In the recordings, the voice, which is identical to Fouts’, takes offensive jabs at people with disabilities.
“What good are they? They are dysfunctional human beings. They aren’t even human beings. … I don’t want to be around them, and I wish them well in a cage.”
In another recording, the voice suggests euthanizing people with disabilities.
Here’s a former aide to Mayor Jim Fouts who says these recordings not only sound a ton like Mayor Fouts, they are filled with the kinds of idiotic statements he himself heard from the him.
One of the sad issues here is that Fouts is the Mayor of Warren and he is going to lose ground on investigating the possibly corrupt Republican Mark Hackel, by default of Fouts being a goddamned creep.
This is the latest development in an ongoing public battle between Fouts, who heads Michigan's third largest city, and Hackel, who this week called the mayor his "stalker."
In a letter dated Wednesday, Fouts asked Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate what Fouts said is illegal dumping by a contractor and illegal actions by Hackel at the closed Freedom Hill County Park landfill in Sterling Heights, which neighbors Warren to the north. Fouts also questioned trips he said the county executive took on a private jet owned by the contractor involved in the dumping.
Not looking good for Mr. Fouts.