'There's Definitely a Culture of Favoritism, Which in My Impression Seems to be Based on Gender and Color'

These Democrats love to pay lip service to equality, but they never seem to walk the walk. Why are these Democrats such racist, sexist pigs?

There's an Ol' Boys Club in Brooklyn's Borough Hall.

That's the picture emerging from a sex-discrimination suit against Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Documents in the case show Markowitz slamming female staffers as incompetent - deriding one as "Tinkerbell" - while admitting under oath he kept an absentee male staffer on the payroll.

"There's like an old boys network mentality," said Regina Weiss, Markowitz's ex-communications director, who is suing for discrimination.

Another ex-staffer named in the documents echoed Weiss' charge.

"There's definitely a culture of favoritism, which in my impression seems to be based on gender and color," Sharon Toomer, a predecessor of Weiss, told The News. "That culture is driven by the borough president himself."

Depositions from Markowitz and his former chief of staff, Gregory Atkins, reveal a third staffer complained about a dirty joke "that had something to do with a sausage," Atkins said.

Convenient how the word "Democrat" is conspicuously missing from the story.