Welcome to “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” here on Election Day, 2016, where the subject of our 535th original profile is none other than New York State Senate Candidate for District 80, Jon Girodes. While Girodes has managed to get his picture taken with prominent Republicans like Sean Hannity, Chris Christie, or Newt Gingrich, apparently it was not their clout that wore off on Girodes, but some of their worst racial sentiments and ability to be tarnished by news reports of being void of ethical integrity or moral character. District 80 of the New York State senate is better known as Harlem, a place that Republicans will always have a tough time gettng elected in, for reasons as obvious as just pointing to the party’s demonizing of “inner cities”, or their policies that impact African Americans negatively from education standardization to voting rights, to civil rights, to… you get the idea. But how could Jon Girodes find a way to be even MORE abhorrent to African American voters in Harlem, by not just being a Republican?
Well, Girodes gave himself the October surprise of sending out an e-mail promising “Kool-Aid, KFC, and watermelons” to people who attended a Harlem campaign rally. And when people immediately went, “HOLY F***, THAT IS RACIST AS ALL F***ING GET-OUT!”, Girodes, inexplicably DOUBLED DOWN. Yeah, that’s right. Jon Girodes explained he was just offering free food, everybody stay calm:
“What I think is anyone who gives free food to people is doing them a favor. Get a bunch of people who say it’s offensive and let me go into their neighborhood and give it out for free and see if they take it.”
It’s not racist, because people would take that free food. Just… Residents of Harlem admirably responded to Girodes’ offer by offering “to donate various foots to his ass”. (Seriously, that comment makes my heart soar.)
Now, if it weren’t enough that Girodes was a Republican who apparently took his candidacy as an excuse to be a racist troll towards African Americans… he wasn’t done with scandals in October. Within eight days of the news breaking about Girodes’ racist food giveaway, he was back in the news again for being arrested on grand larceny charges in a rental scheme where he would collect deposit money from potential tenants and then still leave them without a place to live. He collected deposits from twelve people on one apartment, and left them unable to reside there, and responded with various lies to most of them, threats for others. Perhaps the most outrageous is that he threatened to rape a disabled prospective tenant in a phone call who he had swindled not just out of the deposit, but several months of advanced rent. (We can only speculate on if such a rape would be “legitimate” or not, had Girodes carried out his threat.)
Given that at our last check, Girodes has not posted bond after his arrest, so between that, the racist food giveaway, and how Harlem leans left, we’re pretty sure he’s not going to be serving in the New York State Senate.
Happy Election Day, everyone. Get out and vote so idiots, fanatics, and lunatics like the ones we profile don’t remain in office.
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