"A New Jersey councilwoman facing calls to resign over a homophobic rant directed at the capital city's mayor has apologized.

"I apologize. That must be the first thing you hear from me," Robin Vaughn said in a statement posted on her Facebook and Twitter accounts Tuesday. "I am deeply and specifically sorry for the language that has offended so many."

In response, Vaughn suggested the only thing Gusciora brought to City Hall was "a bunch of young boys, and they're sitting up there in the mayor’s suite," before calling him a "motherf-- drug addict pedophile" who needs to "get the f- out of office and get the f- out of Trenton."

She then accused a councilman of having a sexual relationship with Gusciora and said neither were "real men." Gov. Phil Murphy and both of the state's senators, Robert Menendez and Cory Booker, have called for Vaughn to step down."

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