Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes someone to prove you wrong. Meet Robert Morrow, the recently elected chair of the Republican Party for Travis County (home to the city of Austin and the fifth largest county in Texas).
Morrow beat his opponent James Dickey by more than 6,000 votes, finishing with 56.44 percent of the total votes counted in the race. So what’s the problem?
Seems Morrow has been known to be a little edgy in his opinions. In some of his recent tweets, he said:
- Marco Rubio of Florida is “very likely a gay man who got married”
- The Republican National Committee was just a “gay foam party”
- “Would Hillary Clinton swallow all of your cum or would it be more of a Lorena Bobbitt situation”
For years, Morrow has alleged that Rick Perry is secretly bisexual; in 2010, he referred to him as “Gov. Skank Daddy” in an email.
Precinct chairman Edwin Mallory told the Texas Tribune “Just because Robert Morrow is whacked out a little bit, you have to look at the other side of the book — those poor bastards are so afraid of losing power, they will say or do anything to hold onto it. They know Robert Morrow won’t play ball with them.”
Other members of the Travis County Republican Party are trying to figure out a way to remove Morrow from office. Murrow’s response? “Tell them they can go fuck themselves.”