Voter-gate Update: Tim Robbins Still Pissed!

111808robbins.jpgIf you thought Barack Obama's decisive victory might shut up Arlington Road star Tim Robbins, well, you don't know Tim Robbins. First he was outraged when poll workers wouldn't let him vote at his regular voting place on Election Day, then he was doubly incensed when the Board of Elections publicly blamed the snafu on him (for supposedly registering twice with a different address). Now the Fraternity Vacation star has gone all Huff Post on the BoE with—fasten your seat belts—a witheringly contemptuous open letter. It begins: Dear [Board of Elections Commissioner Gregory] Soumas, I would like to publicly apologize for being such a dim-witted dilettante on Election Day. I was under the naïve assumption that I could vote where I voted in the last two elections." It gets worse from there, and after ruthlessly rocking Soumas's cradle with a mystical river of sarcasm, Robbins's ire reaches its highest fidelity with, "...you are a petty vindictive corrupt scumbag." You gonna take that, Soumas?!

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STFU Tim Robbins. No one cares.

really... this guy has no class, its all about him

Narcissist personality disorder on full display.

not for nothing, but i received a similar welcome to tim robbins when i went to vote in brooklyn. i had not voted there in the past, but was not in their book and was given a provisional ballot and no other option. i had to go to work after voting, so i couldn't do anything about it. i'm just glad the candidate i voted for won, since my vote didn't count.

he should check his mail like everyone else. they changed my polling place. maybe his assistant should be blamed for this!

Dear Miss Archer:

I call you "Miss" because you seem to have missed the boat completely. How would you know if I'm an imbecile when you didn't have the guts to interview me man-to-man?

(Change "man-to-man" to "face-to-face." No, change "face-to-face" to "eye-to-eye" and "guts" to "common decency.")

These wild speculations about my intelligence, these preposterous inventions would be better suited for the pages of Amazing Tales Magazine. If the editors of the Manhattan Argus see fit to publish the work of a disordered mind, perhaps they will see fit to publish this. But I doubt it. I most seriously doubt it.

I doubt also you could find a home at Amazing Tales (a periodical which I have enjoyed for many years).

Sincerely... et cetera.

I hear the kids working at Starbucks are bracing themselves because he also didn't get his free coffee.

Cut the guy some slack. If you had to go home to Susan Sarandon, you'd be miserable too.

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