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Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed a Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller who, as a former punk rock musician, has a history of making racist, sexist and homophobic statements online, according to a review by Fox News Digital.
Sanders endorsed Justin Brannan, a Democratic New York City councilman who is now running for comptroller, saying he would fight corruption and stand for the working class. Brannan’s campaign website says that, in the music scene he comes from, “people look out for one another and pick each other up when they fall down.”
Brannan says he has carried these values into his work as a New York City councilmember and that he will do so as a city comptroller.
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However, a review of statements Brannan made on several music listservs during his years as a punk rocker in the ’90s puts a very different set of values on display, including statements mocking Puerto Ricans, Asians, homosexual individuals and others.
On two different occasions in 1999, Brannan used the N-word, writing, “Yo n—- be representing Dead Kennedys and Social D in ‘Stir of Echoes'” and “Yo, this swizz n—- is deep.”
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, has endorsed a Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller, Justin Brannan (right), who, as a former punk rock musician, has a history of making racist, sexist and homophobic statements online. (Flagrant YouTube channel; Justin Brannan via Wikimedia Commons)
In a 1998 post, Brannan also recounted an interview with a now-defunct music publication in which he said he preferred to shave his head bald, explaining, “I like to keep it nice and trim like the Nazis.”
He then added, “I find myself more intimidating with the shaved head too when I smack up my b——.”
Brannan also mocked Asians, writing in one 1999 post that “Chinese people can not drive” and…
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