N.Y. school board member busted for anti-gay, anti-immigrant Facebook page

Source: Albany Times-Union

An Averill Park school board member maintains a Facebook page on which he encourages friends to drink until they vomit and is shown in a photo helping a woman do a "keg stand."

Steve Valente, 23, has been an Averill Park school board member for five years and is currently running for re-election to a second term. He is shown holding a keg and drinking hard liquor in dozens of photos. In one, he is sticking the tap of a keg into a woman's mouth as she is held upside down.

... Valente also lists quotes that use derogatory terms for homosexuals on his Facebook page. He rails against illegal immigrants, is shown wearing a "Speak English Now" T-shirt and tells a friend who wants to be a teacher that she will have to deal with "(expletive)head parents." Among his favorite quotes, attributed to a friend, is one that states "I'm not racist, I'm selective."

"I don't feel this is relevant," Valente said in an interview Thursday. "It doesn't affect my judgment in any way."

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what's the matter was there a shortage of adults when he first ran?

Oh and he used the word "feel". "I don't feel this is relevant . . . " how about something besides opinion for a change? how about concluding instead of feeling?

Young'uns love to test boundaries, and they pig out til they see the light. Of the train about to hit them.

I wouldn't be promoting myself as a binge drinking "selectionist", but hee no doubt knows his constituency better than I do.

has no business being on any school board. Encouraging binge drinking? Racist remarks?

What an idiot.