Einen Veritablen Shitstorm, Exhumed

Today I exhume a post buried deep in the archives. Why? Because someone is trying to rewrite this disgraceful history from Scott Dunn's time on the Richardson City Council. Why? To invent a false narrative that paints Amir Omar as the bad guy in this episode. Who is doing that? I won't name them here. I will say it's not Scott Dunn. I hope I won't have to name names. I hope that they will see that bringing this back up hurts their own candidate, Bob Dubey. The truth actually helps Amir Omar. What's the disgraceful episode this person wants to relitigate?

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You can read all the details here: "Einen veritablen Shitstorm". Here's a summary. The "shitstorm" was generated by a tweet in 2019 from then Councilmember Scott Dunn. He replied to a tweet by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with, "The embarrassment is to have bimbos like you with nothing between your ear [sic]". His tweet went viral worldwide, leading to the German headline above from a German newspaper.

Dunn's immediate response was to use another tweet to apologize "to anyone who finds what I said offensive." Then he deleted his tweet and his whole Twitter account. I reported in 2019 that Dunn, in remarks to the City Council, "apologized to his school teachers for his bad grammar, as if bad grammar was the issue here. He explained his previously issued apology as taking 'ownership of a settlement to protect this City and the Council's reputation,' by which I infer that the apology was less heartfelt than a way to shield others from criticism, too. His self-justification was over the top, including condemnations of 'socialism' and 'abortion.' He said he 'does not apologize for standing on the side of life,' as if calling someone a 'bimbo' is standing on the side of anything but bad behavior."

You might ask why any Dubey supporter would think dredging up this embarrassing incident today would help Dubey's re-election chances? Bear with me as I recount the 2019 City Council election, which occurred just a few months after "Bimbogate." There must still be hard feelings over the widespread community condemnation of Dunn's tweet, as well as the subsequent City Council election to fill the seat Dunn was vacating. Dunn's preferred candidate lost. As I wrote after that election:

Scott Dunn ran for City Council unopposed since 2011, each time garnering the perfunctory endorsement of the Richardson Coalition PAC. This year, Dunn decided to step down, and bewilderingly, thought he had enough influence to pick his successor with his endorsement, despite, how shall we put it, Bimbogate. The Richardson Coalition PAC backed Janet DePuy, the Democrats backed Dan Barrios, and Dunn backed Franklin Byrd. Byrd was also backed by "Patriot Texas Conservative Activists", a fact I know because Byrd himself repeatedly posted the endorsement on Facebook. When the votes were counted, Byrd finished third in a three-person race. Without exit polls, it's impossible to say which hurt Byrd more, the lack of an endorsement by the Richardson Coalition PAC, or the actual endorsement by Dunn.

Source: "The Wheel".

So now, in 2025, someone is blaming Amir Omar for the bad consequences that befell Scott Dunn for his own dumb actions, for his preferred candidate not getting the endorsements of the Richardson Coalition and the Richardson Area Democrats. How did Amir Omar manage this? They dredged up this response to Dunn's tweet on Omar's own Facebook page back in 2019 and ascribed it magical power:

Amir Omar: "I really don’t care what political team you root for and whether you like one representative or another. I don’t even care that although you are representing a city in a non-partisan role, you can’t hold your tongue out of basic decorum. What I do care about is that you are so tone deaf that you don’t realize that using sexist terms like this one reflects badly on our City. #richardsonroyalty"

Source: Amir Omar, Feb, 2019.

In 2019, Omar's post drew 151 "likes" and 345 comments, almost all complaining about what Dunn had said. Now in 2025, in a rewrite of history, we're supposed to believe there wasn't a spontaneous negative response to Dunn's misogynistic public insult, but instead there was a coordinated vendetta dating to Amir Omar's loss in the 2013 election for mayor. Then, six years later, out of office and not running for anything, Amir Omar, according to this allegation, smeared not just Dunn, but by association, Franklin Byrd who was going to run for City Council himself in a few months, and anyone Dunn might later support, like Bob Dubey. By the way, Bob Dubey was on City Council in 2019 when all this went down. He was conspicuous by his silence about the whole affair. He never made a public comment either condemning or approving of Dunn's behavior. A Profile in Courage, Not.

I close by noting that Amir Omar never brought Franklin Byrd or Bob Dubey into the conversation in 2019. And now in 2025, Omar is focused on real issues that affect Richardson today. A word of advice to Dubey. He should try to shut down his supporters' whisper campaign as soon as possible. It can't possibly help his own campaign for him to get dragged into the "shitstorm" on the side of Dunn. He might be asked to explain his own silence back in 2019. How is that compatible with the leadership he claims to show today?

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"Tweet from long ago,
Why dredge it up now, God knows.
The shitstorm returns."
—h/t ChatGPT