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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKirk’s OFFICE Apologizes For Senator’s Comment On Women. No mention of LGBT or African Americans
CHICAGO (AP) U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois apologized Thursday through a spokeswoman after being caught on a live microphone using a word thats disparaging to women.
Kirk, who is seeking re-election in 2016, called fellow Republican senator and presidential candidate Lindsey Graham a bro with no ho, remarks captured on a live microphone as a U.S. Senate panel conducted a roll call vote in Washington. Graham, of South Carolina, is a lifelong bachelor whos recently joked he could have a rotating first lady if elected to the White House.
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Kirk goes on to say. The rest of the sentence is muffled, but he seems to say South Side, a reference to a swath of heavily minority Chicago neighborhoods that stretches south of downtown.
Kirk lives in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/06/11/kirks-office-apologizes-for-senators-comment-on-women/
City Lights
(25,171 posts)He's an asshole. Fuck him.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)meow2u3
(24,779 posts)He only apologized because he said out loud what he really thinks of women.