COOPER CITY, Fla. – The ongoing political feud between Cooper City commissioners Lisa Mallozzi and John Sims hit a new low at the city's last commission meeting, when Mallozzi made statements on the dais using innuendo demeaning Sims' private parts.
"Next meeting I'll bring a tweezer, because if I have to look at you grab yourself one more time I'll give you a tweezer so you don't miss," Mallozzi said to Sims. "I am putting you on notice right now."
Mallozzi then made another reference to Sims, saying she "doesn't work with defective merchandise."
"You know what she was insinuating," said resident Maxine Nicely, who attended the commission meeting where some children were in attendance. "She was actually questioning his manhood.That's what upset me, and if that is the way she's going to be we don't need her. I'm ashamed of her."
The remark turned the meeting into a yelling match, with Mayor Greg Ross banging his gavel, telling Mallozzi to stop talking and calling for adjournment whereupon Mallozzi yelled, "No. I will not tolerate this."
"Dammit," the mayor said, banging his gavel. "I've never had to do this. I have never used this and I don't intend to. I won't accept it from the commission. I won't accept it from anyone out there."
Efforts to reach Mallozzi were unsuccessful, but Sims said he did nothing wrong.
"It's just another whack-job attack from her," he said.
This is not the first time Mallozzi has said outrageous things on the dais. In 2013, she made an obscene suggestion that was caught on video to an elderly woman in the audience, saying "blow me" to activist Gladys Wilson, who passed away earlier this month.
After last week's remark, Sims said on the dais that Mallozzi's personal attack against him was against commission rules and brought up the previous vulgar remark made to Wilson.
"I didn't ask you to give me oral sex either from the dais," Sims said to Mallozzi.
Later, Mallozzi gave a curt apology.
"I apologize for the tweezer comment, but you know what, I'm at my wit's end," she said.
The other commissioners responded with disgust.
"I'm totally embarrassed for everybody in this room," said Commissioner Jamie Curran. "I'm sorry to see this, especially for the young people [who] are here."
"I will not tolerate it from anyone," Ross said. "This has to stop and it stops now."
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