City Council wannabe Steve Behar directs online profanity, rage at women
A potty-mouthed City Council wannabe in Queens has gone after a number of women on social media — along with joking about rape and apparently challenging a man to a fight after getting into an argument on Facebook.
Steve Behar, a Democrat running to represent eastern Queens, recently came under fire for a sexist tweet targeting opponent Linda Lee. He suggested her message boiled down to saying, “Vote for Me I’m a Mommy!”
Since then, more outrageous social media posts by Behar have surfaced.
“F--k you ... You’re a stupid racist c--t!” he wrote a Long Island woman on Facebook.
“You’re a Nazi c--t!” he raged in a follow-up post.
Outgoing Councilman Barry Grodenchik is backing Behar, his staff attorney, to take over his seat.
Among Behar’s ravings about Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Behar wrote on Facebook over two years ago, “This woman is not credible and I refuse to destroy someone’s career without any due process.”
Around the same time, he made another inflammatory post.
“Come on now! Who didn’t grope and rape girls in high school? Democrats are such snowflakes!” Behar wrote. He told The News he was being sarcastic.
In separate posts, he called former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a “dumb b---h” and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen “Nazi Barbie.”
While debating policy with a Long Island man, Behar raged on Facebook, “You prove you’re more stupid and more of a p---y with each post!”
The Council candidate included his address and taunted, “I’m home. Let’s see how tough you are! P---y!”
Behar voiced no remorse over the posts on Tuesday.
“All I can say is if the worst thing I’ve done is curse out white supremacists and neo-Nazis, then I’m OK with that,” he told the Daily News.
Grodenchik did not respond to a request for comment about his employee’s conduct.
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