CHARLOTTE — After days of hot attention from LGBT media and blogs, North Carolina state Sen. James Forrester (R-Gaston) has opened up and responded to accusations that he falsified some medical credentials and affiliations on his resume.
James Forrester
“What has happened is the gay community — the homosexuals don’t like the bill that I pushed through the General Assembly,” Forrester told qnotes via phone.
“They don’t like the bill. They are trying to kill the messenger. They are working to discredit me but they can’t.”
Forrester added, “If I put anything on my résumé that is false, I’ll certainly change it.”
Any mistakes, Forrester said, were “inadvertent.”
“I don’t need to make up credentials; I have enough of them already,” he said. “The gay community is just trying to dig up anything bad about me to discredit me and discredit the bill. I wish they’d quit sending such hate mail and the terrible phone calls I’m getting from them.”
Forrester also said he had already changed his résumé to list “former” affiliations with groups like the American College of Preventive Medicine, though mentions of the groups remain unedited on his résumé at his personal campaign site and at a web page on the Gaston County Republican Party’s website.
In each instance, Forrester’s citations seem to indicate a current and active affiliation with various groups.
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Another friekin’ right-wing redneck…
Whatever old fart. Move out of our way! Equality is coming AGAIN against your sorry white, heterosexual supremacy!!!
what a jackass!!!
Oh br-rother. So it’s the blame game is it? Go waste someone else’s time.
Republican politicians can dish it out but they can’t take it.
what a looser bad for north carolina to have such a looser for sentor
he really needs to step down for sure
Violence is never an answer for us activists.
Show some respect, be a better person than these idiots.
Wow just wow.
babe your hair discredits you…
not hard to do when your not credable
Isn’t it funny how everyone is blaming gay people for all their problems. I mean for real… I guess they have to blame someone so they might as well blame the best out there… LOL
He’s got plenty of straight trash talk…he doesn’t need anyone else. Nasty ass.
Listen Boss Hogg, you’re blaming us for the fact that you lied??? You discredited yourself, and you should stop trying to draw the focus off yourself, and take the consequences and repercussions of your total lack of character that makes you the phony, self serving bigot that you are…..
Let’s get the sucka, boys and girls!
I am from Asheville,NC. The place Forrester referred to as a”cesspool of sin.”. He doesn’t need anyone to discredit him,he discredits himself!
Know what Forrester, if its true then worry about it. If not your old enough to have grown a pair so stfu.
Of course it’s the Homosexuals fault because you couldn’t have possibly done something illegal right Senator? No! Who would dare suggest such a thing! I am sick of this shit, I mean you preach about taking responsibites for your own actions and then you blame the “Homosexuals?!” WTF does that even mean? Every homosexual person in the world held a census and agreed to attack you?!
If you’re going to lie, A. make it a good one and B. Don’t make me embaressed to be an american
bah ha ha ha ha …..what an idiot…..
Replace ‘homosexual’ with any other group of people (race, ethnic or religious) and then it’s hate speech, but if it’s LGBT people, it’s just his “religious rights,” to say that.