A California congressional hopeful was compelled to apologize for newly resurfaced sleazy Reddit posts — together with ones commenting on ladies’s buttocks and references to “Fresno Freaks.”
Native progressive union activist Lourin Hubbard, who’s operating to unseat Democratic Rep. Jim Costa, had a penchant for ogling at not-safe-for-work photographs and lobbing low blows at fellow Reddit posters — from the identical account he’d used to announce his congressional aspirations, in line with screenshots obtained by The Submit.
“The posts in query have been grownup in nature and concerned commentary about different consenting adults. Whereas they have been made previously and don’t mirror my life as we speak, I perceive how some individuals might view them as objectifying or inappropriate. For that, I sincerely apologize,” Hubbard stated in an e mail to The Submit.
The candidate for California’s twenty first congressional district, masking components of Tulare and Fresno counties, stated he’s matured since making the raunchy posts below the person title LoHubb56.
“Such an enormous a–! Fresno freaks in the home,” Hubbard replied in 2021 to a now-deleted publish a couple of “Thick Fresno Spouse.”
“Nice a–! Facet be aware there’s loads of nurses on Reddit…” he wrote within the NSFW discussion board Work Gone Wild.
In different posts, which have been made between 5 and eight years in the past earlier than the sexy account was deactivated, Hubbard drools over ladies’s “mommy cleavage” and “Phat a– white ladies.”
Hubbard was a daily on the favored Roast Me discussion board, the place people ask customers to poke enjoyable at them.
“You appear like you have been in Parkland and as an alternative of pulling out his AR-15 that Cruz child shot you with ugly bullets as an alternative,” he wrote, referencing the 2018 mass capturing that killed 17 college students and workers at a highschool in Parkland, Fla.
One other outdated publish used the R-word for intellectually disabled individuals.
Hubbard informed The Submit {that a} political opponent had “threatened” him with the outdated posts and he thought of dropping out of the congressional race.
“I used to be solely operating as a result of I’d felt so hopeless and pissed off with each Trump and the Democrats that I didn’t know what else to do. However being threatened has had the alternative impact,” Hubbard insisted.
California’s twenty first congressional district, an agriculture-heavy swath of the San Joaquin Valley, is affected by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50, which triggered a mid-decade redistricting supposed to present Democrats an edge within the midterm elections.
The district is thought of Democratic-leaning, in line with Prepare dinner Political Report, after Prop. 50 shuffled some conservative pockets out of the district.
Different candidates embrace Republicans Kyle Kirkland and Lorenzo Rios.
Costa, who has served about 21 years within the Home of Representatives, pleaded no contest to soliciting a prostitute in 1986 when he was a state assemblyman, Hubbard famous.
Hubbard’s marketing campaign priorities embrace Medicare for all, inexpensive baby care, training and “constructing a inexperienced economic system.”
“The Valley wants new illustration, and a daring dedication to progressive change, if we’re going to safe that way forward for alternative and freedom for our youngsters,” Hubbard writes on his marketing campaign web site.
That is Hubbard’s second run for the Home of Representatives, having positioned second in a 2022 particular election for CA-22 after former Rep. Devin Nunes resigned.
He introduced his run for that seat on Reddit, declaring that he “determined to be the change.”
