Yesterday, for the first time Hoboken mayor Dawn Zimmer was shown an x-rated image created over 5 weeks ago by a Giattino campaign surrogate, and hosted on the pro-Giattino blog, Mile Square View.
Over 5 weeks, the campaign has never repudiated the pornographic attack on the mayor's husband; yesterday Giattino was out campaigning with the creator of the "oral rape" graphic.
The Giattino image shows a bespectacled man labeled "Stan" (mayor's husband) with a life-size inflatable sex doll labeled "Nancy" (me- the proprietor of this blog.)
The mayor may have felt that the figurative "oral rape" of a female blogger by her husband was a misogynistic "punishment;" an angry male's attempt to objectify and publicly humiliate a woman who dare express an independent political view.
Or, she may have been disgusted by the Giattino campaign's silent endorsement of x-rated political attacks by an alleged "Reformer". (Yes, this misogynistic personal "political" attack on the mayor's husband by Giattino's surrogate has NEVER been repudiated by Tiffanie Fisher, nor Peter Cunningham, nor Jen Giattino.)
Most likely, she was disgusted because the Giattino supporter attacked the father of her children, her beloved husband.
GA doesn't know.
All I know is that when Mayor Zimmer saw the image created by a Giattino surrogate attacking her husband, "she didn't laugh... she was repulsed."
There you go, folks. Shocking. So is the silence of the Giattino campaign.
#SexDollGate
Did that make you cry?
As we enter the final days of the campaign, we will be streamlining and simplifying our editorial policy at the Team GiaFusco Reform Resistance Corporate Website.
ReplyDeleteGoing forward the following 3 rules will be rigidly applied:
1) Any/all articles or posts tending to criticize our female candidate or her campaign will be deemed outrageously sexist.
2) Any/all articles or posts tending to criticize our gay candidate or his campaign will be deemed outrageously homophobic.
3) Any/all articles or posts not clearly favorable to at least one of our candidates will be deemed desperately, maniacally, fanatically pro-Bhalla; and characterized as "an attack."
Therefore, we demand an immediate retraction of this outrageously sexist, and fanatically pro-Bhalla attack on our candidate!
Also Team GiaFusco wishes to remind you that a vote for Gia is a vote for Fusco so don't worry about it too much either way. You can relax - it's already over. Have a nice day!
it's one thing to vigorously support a candidate, the sheriff of crazy horseshitville and his loyal follower are entitled to push for anyone they want. but why the drastic plunge into juvenile, creepy sex stuff? what makes it all the more unbelievable is they're doing it in the current social climate of harvey freakin' weinstein and dozens of other high-profile men being called out EVERY DAY for offensive and inappropriate sexual innuendo. are they so unplugged from the world that NOW is when they decide it's a good time to support "jen" via sexual attacks on opponents? really?
ReplyDeletemy guess is roman would make the "it's all the PC police" argument, but when did kurt go all loopy? i almost feel bad for him (not really, tho), he's like the socially awkward kid in school who gets egged on by a bad influencer (guess who, in this case) and is easily talked into doing stupid shit because someone is finally paying attention to him. strikes me as attention seeking and looking for approval, things most of us grow out of once we get into college.
maybe "jen" doesn't have a problem with it because she never made that step.
when a campaign starts low (based on spite and jealously), you can only go lower.....
ReplyDeleteI'm in the minority, and GA knows this: I laughed at the picture and took it as juvenile, but funny.
ReplyDeleteTo be clear: I'm brash, abrasive and generally push the bounds of humor when in polite company, so I'm not likely to be the best judge of what's OK online. I am a person who, after mentioning a celebrity crush I had, received a blow up doll of said crush as a joke birthday gift from a friend. Instead of being embarrassed, I blew it up right there in the bar, danced with it all night at the bar in Hoboken.
There may have been a lot of drinking involved.
FTR, it was never used as anything other than my dance partner (and other people's too) that evening, and then it was thrown out once I got home.
Context is everything. This wasn't friendly. I will leave it at that.
DeleteWhat in the Hell has happened to Kurt Gardiner? I guess it's similar to what's happened to so many Zimmer supporters of the past who are now making silly asses of themselves over "Jen". I really don't get what's happened, other than there's a substantial group of Peter Cunningham supporters who follow him around in Zombie-like fashion. I've also noticed that there's a bunch of "Kids First" campaign alumni who've formed yet another "Jen" cult. I bumped into Reform supporter this morning at a PT session who noticed my Ravi for Mayor button. She was practically apoplectic over what "Jen" has done to Reform and fears like many of us that "Jen"
Deletehas handed the Mayor's job over to Romano on a silver platter.
But I digress...back to Kurt Gardiner. Doesn't this guy have a job or even a hobby to preoccupy himself? (Oh, I forgot, he's latched onto the "Jen" Magical Mystery Tour). He seems consumed with venom when it comes to Mayor Zimmer, her husband Stan, Ravi and GA. What did any of them ever do to Kurt to elicit such sick and nasty behavior? The guy really needs a doctor.
Don't insult my main alliterative rhyme guru. He's getting on the right page with me on racial issues if you know what I mean. As fate would have it, Kurt can cry chickens every time he counts his wolves, deep in the dead of night when the reform resistance is mustering its metaphysical armies and preparing for the darkest hour before the Gone Dawn. PAC-Man Bhalli Ravioli better much his power pellets. This is America, not some third world bazaar.
DeleteNo pun intended.