Mark Kirk Apologizes For Calling Lindsey Graham ‘A Bro With No Ho’

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 13: Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., speaks with Roll Call at his desk in the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-OH) apologized on Monday for comments he made while joking about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) status as a single presidential candidate.

“I’ve been joking with Lindsey. Did you see that? He’s going to have a rotating first lady. He’s a bro with no ho,” Kirk said at a Senate Appropriations Committee markup last week, referencing Graham’s recent quip that he would have a “rotating first lady” if elected president.

“I apologize to the people of Illinois for my inappropriate remarks last week,” Kirk said in an email statement on Monday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

After making the comments last week, Kirk told Politico that he regretted making the joke about Graham.

Graham acknowledged that Kirk’s comment was simply a joke and indicated he was not offended.

“I think he did the right thing by apologizing. He was trying to be funny, not mean, it didn’t work,” Graham told Yahoo News’ Katie Couric last week.

H/t Huffington Post

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  1. “Graham with no ma’am.”

    Remember it, Kirk. Dumbass.

  2. “Sen. Mark Kirk (R-OH)” Who writes this crap? Hire an editor!!!

  3. “I apologize to the people of Illinois for my inappropriate remarks last week,” Kirk said in an email statement on Monday …

    … "because I’m up for re-election soon."

  4. Fo shizzle!

  5. Uh, Obama pushed him into using that indecent language around famiies, children, people of faith by always playing the race card.

    How’s that?

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