Virginia vice mayor slurs Buttigieg on Facebook Live — then insists he wasn’t being anti-gay

A vice mayor for a small town in Virginia is receiving attention from across the nation after calling U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg a derogatory term based on his sexuality during his weekly Facebook Live show on Feb. 15. Jim Wood, the Vice Mayor of Waynesboro, Virginia, hosts the Facebook Live show from his own page every Wednesday, and the show is not connected to his political position or the City of Waynesboro. Waynesboro has a population of 22,550 people. Wood’s show, “Conservative Conversations with Friends Around the World” was covering the topic of the recent train de…

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