Why did Gottheimer lead a corporation that helped an anti-gay authoritarian?
/By Sussex Watchdog
Over the weekend, Congressman Josh Gottheimer posted an attack on social media against a group of his constituents who have criticized him for not holding Governor Phil Murphy to account for sending COVID-19 patients into nursing homes – a move which resulted in the deaths of 7,000 vulnerable residents. Gottheimer has refused to even mention Murphy’s infamous Executive Order 103, which forced nursing homes to bring in COVID carriers even as they kept out family members – leaving those in nursing homes to die alone.
Gottheimer attacked these Sussex County residents, claiming they had used “hurtful language” about members of the LGBT community. This is a reference to the residents’ opposition to a Democrat Freeholder candidate and his support for requiring the LGBT “rainbow flag” to fly over all government buildings in Sussex County.
Congressman Gottheimer’s double-standard is even more strange because, in 2006, Josh Gottheimer became the number two executive (Global Vice President) with a public relations/lobbying firm that worked for the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. According to Wikipedia, Museveni attempted to “institute the death penalty for homosexuality” and claimed that "European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa". Museveni later backed off the death penalty and instead Uganda imposed a potential penalty of life imprisonment for "aggravated homosexuality".
How could Josh Gottheimer have taken money from a firm with a record like this, and then attack his own constituents when they disagree with his Democrat allies over the mandatory display of LGBT flags on government buildings? It is a stunning example of political hypocrisy by Gottheimer.
For more on Josh Gottheimer’s lobbying career, watch this video by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv69L61W-2A
“When evil needs public relations, evil has (Josh Gottheimer’s company) on speed dial.”(Rachel Maddow, MSNBC)
