A prominent Democrat from the South, once heralded as a burgeoning talent within the party, has been recorded making an inappropriate comment during a contentious exchange with a political adversary.

Randall Woodfin, who serves as the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, called Jefferson County Commissioner Lashunda Scales in October. During the call, he accused Scales of circulating rumors that he was backing her opponent in the forthcoming commissioner election, according to AL.com.

The conversation, which surfaced online this Tuesday, took a peculiar turn during its six-minute duration when Woodfin mentioned their ‘last conversation was about two ti**ies.’

“Do you remember that conversation?” the mayor inquired, adding, “Because I remember it well.”

Scales, also a Democrat who had challenged Woodfin in the mayoral race the previous year, appeared startled by his comment.

‘Wait a minute, the last conversation was about what?’ she asked, incredulously.

‘Ti**ies,’ he replied, before spelling out the word. ‘You remember that?’

Randall Woodfin, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was caught on tape making vulgar remarks

He used a vulgar term for breasts while speaking to Jefferson County Commissioner Lashunda Scales (pictured) in October

‘And you’re saying that in regards to what, Randall,’ Scales then asked.

‘I’m saying in regards to you,’ he shot back, arguing: ‘We ain’t got to talk to each other, but you can’t not for some reason after eight years keep my name out your mouth’ and accusing her of being a ‘bully.’

The mayor, who was featured as a ‘rising star’ Democrat at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, then threatened to actively support Scales’ political opponent if she did not stop talking about him.

‘I will gladly get in the race if you keep telling people that,’ he told the county commissioner.

Still, Scales did not back off.

‘Now you do as you will,’ she responded. ‘I think you’re giving a very arrogant attitude about your ability to cross into various elections.

‘But don’t ever call me and say anything like that, OK?’

The phone conversation spread quickly on social media on Tuesday, prompting Birmingham residents to ask whose breasts Woodfin was referring to as others dubbed the scandal ‘Two Ti**ies Tuesday.’

By the end of the day, Woodfin took to social media to claim that his remarks were never in reference to an actual woman – but that he was actually repeating comments Scales herself made in a conversation years earlier.

He said that Scales referenced ‘two ti**ies’ herself as she demanded his political loyalty for helping him get elected mayor in 2017, when she was a member of the Birmingham City Council.

Woodfin said he told Scales at the time ‘that I wanted to work fairly with her and all her colleagues,’ to which she claimed that he did not understand the situation.

When he then asked for clarification, Woodfin wrote, ‘She said, “You got two ti**ies, right?”

‘I said, “yeah.” She said, “then give me one ti**y and you can give the other eight councilors the other ti**y.”‘

‘I said, “I don’t get down like that and I’m going to treat all y’all fair.” And the last thing she said was “oh, we’ll see” and hung up.’

‘That was the last time we spoke – until she tried to make headlines today by leaking a call to the press,’ Woodfin told residents on social media. 

In the years since, the relationship between the two Democrats soured, and Woodfin accused Scales of carrying a vendetta against him after she left the council for her county commission seat because he would not submit to her demands.

The mayor, though, did not clarify what those demands were. 

‘She’s used every opportunity since to fight against the progress our administration has made,’ he wrote on Tuesday. ‘Not because they were bad policies, but because they weren’t hers.’

But Scales dismissed Woodfin’s claims.

‘While he has no proof of the accounts he has alleged against my good name and character, I have presented solid evidence of the constant bullying I have experienced from Mayor Woodfin,’ she told AL.com.

She added that her ‘record speaks for itself.’

‘I am a proud resident of Birmingham,’ she said. ‘To not help the city of Birmingham would hurt the citizens of Birmingham as well as myself.’