The following is via LoHud.com:
Mayor Demeza Delhomme pledged to vote against all building permit applications by Jewish developers to retaliate against Jews for supporting political opponents, according to a secretly recorded conversation obtained exclusively by The Journal News.
Asked whether he would vote against, “anything a Jew brings,” Delhomme replied, “Yes,” during a conversation recorded last March at Village Hall.
Delhomme later said, “I swear to God. On the application. Any Jew that comes in.”
The mayor, who is Haitian, said if a Haitian brought the same application as a Jew, he would support it.
“I’m voting for them,” he said on the recording. “Because they voted for me. They supported me.”
Delhomme refused to answer a reporter’s questions about the roughly 40-minute recording, but denies discriminating against anyone.
“Do you have proof that I have been discriminating against anybody?” he asked a reporter. “If you don’t have proof of it, stay the hell away from me,” he said as he hung up the phone.
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Sorry, but I don’t see this as anti Semitic he helps people that support him
I just see it as being a liberal
If the conversation is admissable in evidence in a civil case, there are probably many lawyers drooling as they read this.
Ouch. Too bad this hasn’t made national news or he’d be doomed.
pledged to vote against all building permit applications by Jewish developers to retaliate against Jews for supporting political opponents –
hate to break it to you but that’s not anti semetism.
If he is acting against all Jewish developers, rather than just those who support his opponents, it would be a violation of the civil rights law. The jury would be asked to determine which meaning is appropriate – he would probably say he was discriminating against a specific group of Jewish developers for supporting his opponents.
He might be be violating state laws by denying building permits that he is required to issue, but that is probably not a civil right matter and the remedy would be an injunction to issue the permit rather than a suit for damages under Federal law.
Those are the people who don’t belong in office.how can a leader discriminate based on who voted for him that’s insane
“I just see it as being a liberal”
I see it as being a politician.
The two fundamental mistakes we are all making are: 1) Thinking we need proof that the world hates us and 2) something other than Torah, Avodah, and Gemilus Chasadim will rid the world of such people.