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Utility union president directed extreme misogynistic slurs at female city council members

Heidi Harmon · Introducing Drilled: Bridge to Nowhere · May 24, 2022 · at 16:16

Former San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon recounts personal and verbal attacks by utility union leadership opposing municipal electrification.

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“At a city council meeting, after it was clear that things were not going to go in their direction, the president of the union himself said, I'm not resting till that fucking red flower, Corella de Vil cunt, and all those other fucking bitches are voted off that fucking council.”

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The claim, plainly

The president of the utility workers union told supporters he would not rest until Mayor Heidi Harmon and other female council members were voted off the San Luis Obispo City Council.

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Assessment

The claim alleges that the president of the utility workers union (specifically Eric Hofmann, then-president of UWUA Local 132) made specific profane statements to supporters vowing not to rest until then-Mayor Heidi Harmon and other female council members were voted off the San Luis Obispo City Council. While public records and news coverage from 2019 and 2020 verify significant conflict—including a documented March 2020 email from Hofmann threatening large-scale protests over the city's building electrification code—there are no audio/video recordings, meeting transcripts, union communications, or independent reporting corroborating the alleged verbal remarks. All public references to the statement trace exclusively to Harmon's own retrospective accounts. Because the alleged remark is unrecorded and relies entirely on single-party testimony, it cannot be verified or settled with public information.

March 16, 2020 email from UWUA Local 132 President Eric Hofmann threatening protests over the proposed gas ban, reported by the Los Angeles Times and KEYT News
September 13, 2019 FPPC complaint and conflict-of-interest letter filed by UWUA Local 132 against City Council members
Absence of any independent recordings, council transcripts, union statements, or contemporary news reports corroborating the specific profane quotes attributed to the union president
All public mentions of the specific quote stem solely from Heidi Harmon's later retrospective appearances (e.g., Full Frontal with Samantha Bee in June 2021 and The Green Blueprint in May 2022)

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[1] slocity.org [2] keyt.com [3] latimes.com [4] slocity.org [5] latimes.com [6] keyt.com [7] latimes.com [8] calcoastnews.com

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