"Isn't it time for Trueworthy to Go?"

FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:

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It is time for Mr. Trueworthy to step down from the city council completely and to take a long break from public service.

It has become common knowledge that he publicly embarrassed himself and the city in 2 recent incidents. 

In the first incident he publicly referred to a woman by using the “C” word or even worse and then told her to go do something sexual to herself.  At the root of this sickening conduct towards a woman was that he seemed to feel he was better than her because he as much as told her so during his intoxicated tirade.

In yet another incident he created a public disturbance in a crowded restaurant by displaying what he described as his personal disgust for homosexuals by reportedly yelling anti-gay remarks across a crowded restaurant at the married gay couple that owns the restaurant.

Mr. Trueworthy has publicly admitted that both of these incidents took place and has apologized for his disgusting and hateful conduct and blames his actions on his admittedly being intoxicated at the time of both of these incidents.  As a token of his sincerity he has offered to step down from his position as the Mayor Pro Tem on the Council, but says he will remain a member of the City Council. But can the public accept him on their council after such openly hateful conduct directed towards two separate minority groups and can we accept his excuse that the booze made him do it? 

Mr. Trueworthy says that his conduct doesn’t really reveal his true feelings toward women and homosexuals, but science tells us otherwise: 

"You can't pour vodka on a turnip and have it say anti-Semitic remarks," and "Alcohol can't make you think or feel things,"  says Gary L. Malone, MD, an addiction psychiatrist and the medical director and chief of psychiatry at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.”

"People should be held accountable for what they say drunk as well as sober, and forgiveness should not be based on 'the alcohol made me do it'…”  adds Carleton Kendrick EdM, LCSW, a family therapist in Boston. "I don't accept that because one does not explode in the tirade that he came forth unprovoked without believing in the thoughts that he expressed," he says.

"Alcoholics will tell you that they try to watch what they say when they are drunk, but that's a conundrum because alcohol frees the tongue to say what is in the heart," he adds. (Is Alcohol a Truth Serum, By DeniseMann, WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang MD)

Mr. Trueworthy tells us that he doesn’t really hate these 2 groups that he offended, but experts are telling us that alcohol can’t make you say something that you don’t really feel in your heart just because you are intoxicated.  No one can tell us for sure what is really in Mr. Trueworthy’s heart or mind, but after his disgusting conduct toward women and homosexuals, how can either of these groups or even any minority group ever accept him to represent their interests on the council?  Is this the kind of vile and degrading conduct that our local Democratic Party is willing to accept from their leadership? 

As Mr. Kendrick said in his report, people need to be held accountable for what they do when they are drunk and we should not accept “alcohol made me do it” as an excuse, especially when such hatred was launched against 2 distinct minority groups.

It is time for Mr. Trueworthy to stop blaming alcohol for his conduct and do the right thing for the city and the people he was elected to represent including the women and homosexuals he so openly defiled by resigning from the council.