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There’s really no punchline because this is no joke.

Rather Horwath’s remarks Wednesday — and the ones she’s made each and every time a would-be MPP has been shown to be a virtual-signalling, carbon-tax-obsessed, anti-police, anti-Israel, Hitler-memeing radical left and not terribly well-vetted NDP candidates they are — show the serious lack of leadership abilities of a woman who seeks to be our next premier.

Her weak response and her repeated excuses prove the NDP lunatics are already running the asylum (meaning the party.) They’ve been enabled by her lack of intestinal fortitude to make a strong statement that these kinds of views are unacceptable in the Ontario NDP of 2018.

I even cycled to Andrew’s Yonge St. campaign office Wednesday morning to speak with her — you know, gay woman to gay woman. But I was told she was “out all day” (as I’ve learned at City Hall, that’s lefty-speak for “I’m accountable to nobody.”)

Here’s the thing: Andrew’s Facebook rant was straight out of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) playbook. It came the week after BLM-Toronto hijacked the 2016 Gay Pride parade. She not only seemed to resent that Saunders called out BLM for their divisive tactics, but suggested that alleged Toronto police brutality is a fact and their next victims could be a friend, neighbour or former student.

She was disrespectful and offensive. I don’t care if she is black and Saunders is too. It is no different than the kind of disrespect I saw from BLM’s mouthpiece Desmond Cole and various BLM ladies who came to the Toronto Police Services Board last spring to attack the police and bully the weak-kneed politicians into axing the excellent School Resource Officer program.

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Without missing a beat — and enabled by Horwath’s excuses — Andrew, whose Facebook slur is still up, doubled down refusing to apologize in a statement Wednesday.

“As a Black woman, my personal Facebook post was reflective of the very tensions that I, and many in Toronto’s marginalized communities, feel and experience. I recognize that loaded terms compromise discussion. My decision to stand for elected office is a positive step toward engaging with difficult conversations in our City and throughout the province…,” she wrote.

Speaking of marginalized, Andrew has been busy over the past several years peddling the idea that she’s also a victim and oppressed because she’s a “fat” black woman. In fact, as an advocate for “fat justice,” she’s encouraged women to embrace their fatness and obesity, like she did in this TED Talk from 2014.