A Manhattan state assemblyman has doubled down on his tasteless joke about his mother being aroused by the late US Rep. Charles Rangel, going off in a non-public social-media publish after being sanctioned over it.
“[SHE] HARDLY SAID ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT THE THREE MEN WHO PREGNANTED (sic) HER.. BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT CONGRESSMAN RANGLE THAT MADE HER COO COO FOR COCO POPS!” Democratic Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs wrote within the publish made to a non-public Fb account after he was sanctioned by his fellow meeting members Friday.
“WE ALL KNOW THAT MY MOMS WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. WHATEVER SHE DID, SHE DID IT WITH PRIDE, AND COULDN’T GIVE ONE DAMN WHO GAVE TWO F–KS!” Gibbs added within the publish, which was obtained by Metropolis and State.
Gibbs’ outburst got here quickly after he was sanctioned by the Meeting Ethics and Steerage Committee for “the usage of sexually express remarks” throughout a Could speech, which the panel stated violated meeting insurance policies.
The committee requested Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie to “situation a written warning to Member Gibbs and require that Member Gibbs endure counseling to handle the usage of sexually express remarks and the usage of skilled communication” — which Heastie agreed to do.
Gibbs, the 57-year-old consultant for New York’s 68th District — protecting East Harlem and elements of the Higher East Facet — raised meeting eyebrows in Could whereas talking about Rangel, the long-lasting Harlem native and consultant who died two days earlier than, and his predecessor.
“My mom was a giant fan of Adam Clayton Powell, the congressmember, and she or he would inform me usually that Adam Powell made her moist, made her moist,” Gibbs stated throughout his off-color speech.
“After which when Charlie received the seat, had the seat, she stated Charlie made her wetter. Don’t know what meaning, however that’s the best way she felt about Charlie,” he stated.
Gibbs was certainly one of many individuals who spoke to commemorate Rangel through the meeting assembly. Whereas the everyone else’s remarks stay on the meeting’s web site, the raunchy portion of Gibbs’ speech was eliminated.
That appeared to enrage Gibbs, who insisted in his social-media posting that he was solely ever talking the best way his personal mom would have.
“I AM PISSED FOR SEVERAL REASONS,” he wrote. “THEY DELETED THE VIDEO OF MY MOTHER’S QUOTE. I REALLY WANT TO SUE THE STATE FOR THAT. MY MOMS DIDN’T HOLD BACK HER WORDS WHY SHOULD THE STATE?
“IN CLOSING, I AM GOING TO QUOTE MY MOTHER, VALERIE ANN GIBBS ONE ‘MO’ TIME FROM HER GRAVE.., ‘THAT CHARLES RANGEL MAKES ME MOIST’!!! SO THE F–Ok WHAT?”
It wasn’t Gibbs’ first time courting controversy.
He was arrested in October 2024 when he tried to intervene because the NYPD pulled his brother over for a site visitors violation.
Gibbs confirmed up in the course of the site visitors cease and refused to butt out of the scenario, regardless of cops’ orders. He later owned as much as being out of line.
Months earlier, he had been accused of illegally firing a staffer who was within the hospital with a severe medical situation that led to a partial leg amputation.
His profession was additionally preceded by a stint of crime dealing crack cocaine as a teen within the Eighties and a year-long keep in Rikers after he was charged with homicide. His expenses had been lowered to manslaughter, with Gibbs arguing he’d acted in self protection, and he did jail time.
Gibbs turned the primary member of the state legislature to have served time behind bars when he was elected in 2022.
