Over three days the councilman told a sitting congressman to “take your curry and go home,” posted “Indian Removal Act of 2027,” used an anti-gay slur three times, and resurfaced the post that drew a formal rebuke from Congress.
PALM BAY — On Sept. 14, Palm Bay City Councilman Chandler Langevin reposted a message he had written eleven months earlier, one that prompted a formal statement from a member of the United States Congress. His caption: “Remembering my favorite post today.”
The original post, from October 2025, tagged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and said he wished to report a foreign occupier. It gave the name as “Unpronounceable” and the country of origin as “Tatooine,” the desert planet from Star Wars. It was aimed at U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat who has represented Illinois’ 8th district since 2017.
Earlier the same day, Langevin had replied directly to the congressman’s account, asking whether he remembered the post and calling it a “banger.”
Three days earlier, on the evening of Sept. 11, Langevin had replied to the same account with six words: “I won Rajesh. Take your curry and go home.”
“Rajesh” is not the congressman’s name. It is a nickname Langevin has used for him since October 2025, taken from a character on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
The exchanges came less than seven months after the City of Palm Bay agreed to pay $55,000 to settle the federal lawsuit Langevin filed against the city over his censure for earlier posts about Indian immigrants.
An eleven-month campaign against one congressman
Langevin’s posts directed at Krishnamoorthi span nearly a year, predate the settlement, and have twice drawn official statements from the congressman’s office.
On Oct. 18, 2025, Krishnamoorthi condemned Langevin by name, calling it unacceptable and dangerous that elected officials were calling for the mass removal of Indian Americans.
Langevin answered the next day with the “foreign occupier” post.
On Oct. 22, 2025, the congressman issued a second statement. “It’s telling that rather than apologizing for calling for the mass deportation of Indian Americans, Mr. Langevin chose to double down with racist mockery,” he said. “I was born in India, raised in Peoria, and elected by the people of Illinois. There’s nothing ‘foreign’ about standing up for my fellow Americans.”
Langevin had also written days earlier that the congressman should be more concerned with his own state than with “what a City Councilman over a thousand miles away is doing,” describing the congressman’s party as one of foreign invaders. In November 2025 he wrote that Krishnamoorthi should be sent “back to Tatooine immediately.”
On Jan. 14 of this year, six weeks before the City Council voted to approve the settlement, Langevin tagged the congressman’s account and wrote: “Please also deport Rep. Rajesh Koothrapali.” He posted about him again in April and in July, writing, “They’re all going back Rajesh.”
Krishnamoorthi is among the members of Congress who criticized Texas Railroad Commission nominee Bo French this week after French posted a photograph of South Asian students celebrating a University of Texas football victory.
“Curry War 2.0”
The French controversy drew condemnation from prominent Texas Republicans, including outgoing U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who warned that “this is how great political parties self-destruct.” French has stood by the post.
Langevin spent the weekend defending him.
On the evening of Sept. 13 he wrote that it was “almost a year to the date” that he “fought the Indians in Florida,” comparing himself to an agent of the East India Trading Company, and said French was “kicking off Curry War 2.0 in Texas.” Roughly an hour later he posted the phrase “Indian Removal Act of 2027.” Earlier that day he had written, “Stop Indian migration immediately.”
He also turned on Republicans who criticized French. Of Cornyn, Langevin wrote that such “Republican dinosaurs” have to be “run into the sea” and called the senator a traitor to the Republic. When Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows told French to delete the post, Langevin wrote: “Remove these people from our party like the cancer they are.”
Langevin told a Texas mayor who had criticized French, and who described himself as a sixth-generation Republican, “From one City Councilman to another,” that he was a traitor to the country and should be deported. He told a separate user who identified himself as a natural-born U.S. citizen, “I would also deport you.”
On Sept. 7, Langevin wrote: “I will not support an Indian for any office against any opponent for any reason in the United States.”
The record since the settlement
Langevin’s posts about Indian immigration did not resume this month. They did not stop.
The council approved the settlement on Feb. 27. On March 9, Langevin posted that a program should have him on to discuss Indian migration. On May 5 he wrote that the country must “turn the tap off” on Indian migration and “send them home.” On May 13 he described it as modern-day slave labor. On May 29 he wrote that the United States should strip the visa of every Indian national in the country and that this “should be priority number one.” In June he credited his own posting with an increase in federal immigration enforcement publicity. On Aug. 31 he wrote that India has one goal for its diaspora, to “strip mine the American economy.”
On Sept. 10, Langevin wrote that he had gone viral for being “the bane of India and Indians living in the U.S.” and added that “that hasn’t changed.” Three days later he quoted his own September 2025 post reading “Indians are destroying the South” and captioned it “Totally vindicated.”
His widest-reaching post of the week was not about India. On Sept. 11, quoting a New York Post report about the son of a former Somali leader living in Ohio, Langevin wrote that the country “consistently send[s] the best of our White sons to die in shit holes overseas just to let the people that killed them come take our country over,” adding, “I’m so sick of it.” The post drew several thousand likes, more than any other he published that week. Langevin, who served as a Navy corpsman attached to the Marine Corps, posted it on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a separate post the same day he called former President George W. Bush a “scum bag” for describing Islam as a religion of peace, writing that his children now have to grow up “surrounded by these savages.”
Slurs aimed at critics
Not all of the weekend’s posts concerned immigration. On Sept. 12 at 4:39 p.m., Langevin posted “What a fag.” The following afternoon he twice posted “Shut up faggot,” at 2:29 and 2:30 p.m. The second came in the same minute as his reply to Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, placing the slurs inside the same thread in which he called Republicans who criticized Bo French a cancer in the party. A reader responded to one of them by pointing out that Langevin’s own profile describes him as a Christian. The posts remained online as of publication.
The slurs are a departure from the defense Langevin and his attorney have offered since 2025, which framed his posts as protected political speech on immigration policy. Earlier in the week, on Sept. 8, he also used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities while reposting commentary about candidates in the November election.
How Palm Bay got here
Langevin was elected to Seat 3 in November 2024. In late September 2025, a series of posts about Indian immigrants, including a demand that every Indian be deported, drew hundreds of residents to City Hall. In one post he tagged President Trump and asked him to revoke every Indian visa.
On Oct. 2, 2025, the council voted 4-1 to ask Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend him. On Oct. 16 it voted 3-2 to censure him, stripping his committee assignments and requiring council consensus before he could place items on the agenda. On Oct. 20, represented by attorney and Lake County Commissioner Anthony Sabatini, Langevin sued the city in federal court.
The city amended the censure resolution in December. U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell then enjoined the provisions the city had already sunset. With a bench trial set for March 3, the parties reached a settlement on Feb. 16, and the council ratified it eleven days later.
Under the terms, the city pays $55,000 to Sabatini Law Firm, P.A. Neither side admits wrongdoing, and Langevin releases the city from all claims. Palm Bay also pays its own outside counsel, GrayRobinson, an amount the city has not disclosed. Mayor Rob Medina said after the vote that the decision was about “cutting our losses with legal fees.”
The people who endorsed him, and what they said next
Langevin’s 2024 campaign was endorsed by much of Brevard’s Republican establishment. Ballotpedia lists endorsements from then-Rep. Randy Fine, Rep. Thad Altman, Rep. Chase Tramont, Mike Haridopolos, Monique Miller and former Rep. Dave Weldon, along with the Space Coast Association of Realtors and the Brevard County chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus.
Two of them publicly broke with him a year ago.
Fine, who in June 2024 called Langevin “a warrior for our country” and praised his integrity, condemned the posts in October 2025, warning that silence can lead to violence. Haridopolos wrote that his family stood with the local Indian community, describing them as proud Americans who love the country.
Others went further. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott condemned the remarks. State Sen. Debbie Mayfield called on DeSantis to suspend him. Brevard County Republican Party chairman Rick Lacey said the party “does not condone or share” Langevin’s position on the Indian community, adding that “his views are his, and his alone.”
The Rocket contacted each of Langevin’s endorsers in 2025 to ask whether they stood by their support.
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