Four-term Lowell School Committee member Bob Hoey called a former Lowell Public Schools employee an anti-Semitic slur during a Wednesday morning episode of “City Life,” which airs on local channel 8 in several local communities.

During the first 30 minutes of the opinion program, Hoey, a guest on the show, host George Anthes, and producer John McDonough discussed issues including their dislike of the word “equity,” their displeasure at the U.S.’s embrace of undocumented immigrants and their cultures, the increasing diversity among Lowell High School’s student elected officials (“from Africa or an island somewhere,” Hoey said), and their disapproval of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among other topics. Hoey also discussed the movement of Indian American families out of Lowell into Westford and Chelmsford, saying “they care only about two things: education and policing.”

Segueing from a conversation about the use of the word “equity” in discussions about Lowell Public Schools and in the school budget document, Hoey then discussed the budget that was “all messed up,” according to Hoey, by former Lowell Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Gary Frisch, who now works in a similar position at Gloucester Public Schools. Hoey then referenced hiring Billie Jo Turner, the current Lowell Public Schools Chief Financial Officer, saying that “we lost the kike, I mean the Jewish guy.”

He immediately followed the use of the slur with “I hate to say it, but that’s what people used to say behind his back. Gary Frisch, that’s down in Beverly… he was the guy in charge of our budget.” Neither Anthes or McDonough said anything about his use of the slur in the moment.
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“Cliff gives me information quickly when I need it, like I just mentioned something about Gary Frisch, I said a bad name,” he said. He then called himself “an Archie Bunker”