Contents:
- LREN BOEBERT’S GAY RIVAL JT PUT OUT A SHOCKG MPAIGN AD… AND WOW!
- LEROY WALKER, 63; LAWYER FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- STT WALKER’S MANY ANSWERS ON GAY RIGHTSPANRG IS HARDSUFFICE TO SAY THE WISNS ERNOR AND 2016 HOPEFUL HAS A HARD TIME EXPLAG HIS VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:17AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2015 1:00AM EDT DAVID BECKER/RTERSIT’S SAFE TO SAY LGBT ISSU ARE NOT STT WALKER’S FAVORE NVERSATN TOPIC. QUTNS ABOUT VAR ASPECTS OF THE GAY-RIGHTS BATE HAVE EQUENTLY TRIPPED HIM UP ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL—MOST RECENTLY DURG AN TERVIEW ON CNN WHEN HE WAS ASKED WHETHER BEG GAY WAS A CHOICE. “OH, I MEAN, I THK THAT’S—THAT’S NOT EVEN AN ISSUE FOR ME TO BE VOLVED ,” THE WISNS ERNOR SAID. “THE BOTTOM LE IS, I’M GOG TO STAND UP AND WORK HARD FOR EVERY AMERIN, REGARDLS OF WHO THEY ARE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY E OM, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND, I’M GOG TO FIGHT FOR PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY VOTE FOR ME OR NOT.”“TO ACT ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE IS, TO DO THAT PROPERLY, YOU HAVE TO UNRSTAND OR AT LEAST HAVE AN OPN ON WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY’RE G OM,” REPORTER DANA BASH REPLIED. “I DON’T HAVE AN OPN ON EVERY SGLE ISSUE OUT THERE,” WALKER NTUED. “I MEAN, TO ME, THAT’S, I DON’T KNOW,” WALKER ANSWERED. “I DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN.”THE BORN-GAY QUTN WASN’T THE ONLY ISSUE PUTTG THE ERNOR A B OF A QUANDARY; HIS MUCH-CHRONICLED MENTS ON WHETHER OR NOT THE BOY SUTS SHOULD LET GAY MEN SERVE AS SUTMASTERS CREATED A B OF A HULLABALOO. THE ERNOR IALLY TOLD IJREVIEW THAT HE SUPPORTED THE EXCLNARY POLICY “BEE PROTECTED CHILDREN AND ADVANCED SUT VALU.”HIS MPAIGN TEAM PROMPTLY WALKED THAT BACK, UNTERG THE IMPLITN THAT GAY MEN PUT BOY SUTS DANGER. “THE PREV POLICY PROTECTED SUTS OM THE RANRO POLIL BATE OVER POLICY ISSU AND CULTURE WARS,” SAID MPAIGN SPOKWOMAN ASHLEE STRONG. “SUTS SHOULD NOT BE ED AS A POLIL FOOTBALL ON ISSU THAT N OFTEN BE HEATED AND DIVISIVE.”WALKER ALSO HAS GIVEN CUR ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT ATTENDG A GAY WEDDG. HIS SON ALEX WAS A WNS AT THE WEDDG OF HIS WIFE’S TO HER SAME-SEX PARTNER; WALKER WENT TO THE RECEPTN.“I HAVEN’T BEEN TO A WEDDG,” HE SAID APRIL AT A PRS NFERENCE NEW HAMPSHIRE, REFERRG TO SAME-SEX CEREMONI. “THAT’S TE EVEN THOUGH MY POSN ON MARRIAGE IS STILL THAT’S FED BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND I SUPPORT THE CONSTUTN OF THE STATE. BUT FOR SOMEONE I LOVE, WE’VE BEEN AT A RECEPTN.” WALKER MAY BE NO BETTER AT DISCSG THE ISSUE PRIVATE. THE WASHGTON POST REPORTED JUNE THAT ONE REPUBLIN BILLNAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER WHDREW SUPPORT FOR THE ERNOR AFTER THE TWO HAD A LONG ARGUMENT ABOUT THE ISSUE. AND THE ERNOR ALSO RECENTLY SUGGTED THAT REPORTERS HAD FOR WEEKS BEEN ACCURATELY SCRIBG HIS WIFE’S STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE. SO WHAT GIV? REPRENTATIVE MARK PON (D-WIS.), AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WHO WORKED WH WALKER WHEN THEY WERE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, SUGGTED HIS NFN MIGHT HAVE MORE TO DO WH HIS POLIL PROFILE THAN HIS POSN ON LGBT RIGHTS.“I’M TRYG TO CI IF ’S JT EXTREME PANRG OR UNFORTUNATE IGNORANCE,” HE SAID. “MOST PEOPLE QU THKG THAT WAY THE ’60S AND ’70S.”HE ADD, “I THK THE BT QUTN THAT SOMEONE SHOULD ASK HIM IS, ‘WELL, WHEN DID YOU CI TO BE STRAIGHT,’ GOVERNOR WALKER?”WALKER’S TONE IS A SIGNIFINT PARTURE OM THEIR DAYS THE ASSEMBLY, PON SAID. “HE NEVER DISPLAYED THAT PTH OF IGNORANCE WHEN HE WAS THE LEGIS OR AS ERNOR,” HE NTUED. “HE CERTALY TALKED A TOUGH GAME WHEN ME TO ISSU LIKE MARRIAGE EQUALY, BUT HE NEVER PUT THAT LARGE OF A DISPLAY OF MISRMATN OUT THERE AT THE TIME.”WISNS SOCIAL NSERVATIV SEEM NFINT THAT THE ERNOR’S EQUIVOTN ON THE QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY DON’T HAVE ANY BEARG ON HIS OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. “THERE’S ALL KDS OF ISSU THAT PRINTIAL NDIDAT ARE ASKED ABOUT,” SAID JULAE APPLG, WHO HEADS THE SOCIALLY NSERVATIVE GROUP WISNS FAY ACTN. “THE ERNOR AND I MAY HAVE SOME DIFFERENC OF OPN ON SOME OF THE THGS, BUT WHEN DOWN TO WHAT HE’S DONE TO SUPPORT THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT, THAT ’S SPECIFILLY BETWEEN ONE MAN AND WOMAN THIS STATE, HIS TRACK RERD SPEAKS FOR SELF.”DURG HIS FIRST GUBERNATORIAL MPAIGN, WALKER ADAMANTLY SUPPORTED THE STATE LEGISLATURE’S PH TO PASS A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT LIMG MARRIAGE TO ONE MAN-ONE WOMAN UPL. THAT EFFORT WAS SUCCSFUL AND HE FEND THE AMENDMENT URT, THOUGH S BACKERS ULTIMATELY LOST. IT WASN’T HIS ONLY TIME FIGHTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS. HE ALSO NSISTENTLY OPPOSED EFFORTS TO PROVI BENEFS TO THE SAME-SEX PARTNERS OF STATE AND UNTY EMPLOYE, AS THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS THEIR WALKER DOSSIER.BUT SCE THE STATE’S MARRIAGE AMENDMENT LOST URT, HE’S SHOWN LTLE VERVE TO DISCS LGBT ISSU.ON MEET THE PRS MARCH 2013, HE SAID YOUNG REPUBLIN VOTERS “DON’T WANT TO GET FOCED ON THOSE ISSU.” THE MILWKEE JOURNAL SENTEL REPORTED HE HAD AN AWKWARD EXCHANGE WH WISNS REPORTERS JUNE 2014 WHEN HE SUGGTED THAT HIS VIEW ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS DON’T MATTER AND THAT HE DIDN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT AT ALL.ON TOP OF THAT, HE TOLD BLOOMBERG 2013 THAT A PROPER BALANCE OF RIGHTS FOR LGBT PEOPLE WOULD PROTECT THEM OM DISCRIMATN THE WORKPLACE BUT ALSO KEEP THEM OM MARRYG. THAT’S HOW WISNS HANDLED GAY RIGHTS, HE SAID, AND THAT’S THE WAY TO DO .“WE’VE HAD NO PROBLEMS—OR I SHOULD SAY, LIMED PROBLEMS—WH THAT,” HE SAID, REFERRG TO THE STATE’S EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN LAW. “AT THE SAME TIME, WE STILL HAVE A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT THAT F MARRIAGE. THERE’S A HEALTHY BALANCE THERE.”SO WALKER’S RERD ON LGBT ISSU WAS A LTLE MORE NUANCED THAN, SAY, RICK SANTOM’S. BUT AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO WED, WALKER ME OUT FAVOR OF AMENDG THE U.S. CONSTUTN TO GIVE STAT THE RIGHT TO PROHIB SUCH UNNS. AND AS FOR THE SOCIAL NSERVATIVE LEARS HE NEEDS TO WOO ORR TO DO WELL IOWA? THEY LOVED . THEN THERE’S THE VIEWS OF HIS WIFE, TOTE. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED ON JULY 5, SHE SUGGTED THAT SHE DISAGRE WH THE ERNOR ON THE QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT SAME-SEX UPL SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY.“THAT WAS A HARD ONE,” SHE TOLD THE PAPER. “OUR SONS WERE DISAPPOTED. ... I WAS TORN. I HAVE CHILDREN WHO ARE VERY PASSNATE [ FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND STT WAS ON HIS SI VERY PASSNATE.”“IT’S HARD FOR ME BEE I HAVE A WHO I LOVE ARLY—SHE IS LIKE A SISTER TO ME—WHO IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, HER PARTNER OF 18 YEARS,” SHE SAID.THAT WAS WILY SEEN AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. TWO WEEKS LATER, ON JULY 13, ABC NEWS REPORTED THAT AS UNNTROVERSIAL FACT. “THEY WERE ALL ON ONE SI, DAD ON THE OTHER,” SAID HOST DAVID MUIR WHEN TALKG ABOUT THE FAY’S VIEWS ON THE ISSUE. SO THERE WAS: STT WALKER’S WIFE BACKED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. AT THE DAILY CALLER, MATT LEWIS WROTE A LUMN SUGGTG THAT THIS MIGHT GIVE SOME SOCIAL NSERVATIV PSE. AND IOWA NSERVATIVE RAD TALK SHOW HOST STEVE DEACE SAID THE WALKER FAY’S SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NCERNED HIM (“THAT’S NOT GOOD,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST). BUT ON SUNDAY, JULY 19—TWO WEEKS AFTER THE WASHGTON POST SUGGTED TOTE FAVORED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE—WALKER TOLD CBN NEWS’S DAVID BRODY THAT, ACTUALLY, ALL THOSE REPORTS WERE WRONG, AND SHE’S ACTUALLY AGAST LETTG SAME-SEX UPL MARRY.“MY WIFE ACTUALLY SUPPORTS MY POSN,” HE TOLD BRODY DURG AN TERVIEW WH BRODY ON HIS MPAIGN B. “SHE POTED OUT SHE WAS TORN BY THE FACT THAT SHE’S GOT ME WH A POSN AND SHE’S GOT OTHERS FAY MEMBERS DIFFERENT POSN, BUT BEG EMOTNALLY TORN DON’T MEAN THAT SHE’S GOT A DIFFERENCE OF OPN.”BUT WHAT IS THAT POSN EXACTLY? IT’S PLITED. BETSY SWAN
LREN BOEBERT’S GAY RIVAL JT PUT OUT A SHOCKG MPAIGN AD… AND WOW!
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LEROY WALKER, 63; LAWYER FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
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STT WALKER’S MANY ANSWERS ON GAY RIGHTSPANRG IS HARDSUFFICE TO SAY THE WISNS ERNOR AND 2016 HOPEFUL HAS A HARD TIME EXPLAG HIS VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:17AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2015 1:00AM EDT DAVID BECKER/RTERSIT’S SAFE TO SAY LGBT ISSU ARE NOT STT WALKER’S FAVORE NVERSATN TOPIC. QUTNS ABOUT VAR ASPECTS OF THE GAY-RIGHTS BATE HAVE EQUENTLY TRIPPED HIM UP ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL—MOST RECENTLY DURG AN TERVIEW ON CNN WHEN HE WAS ASKED WHETHER BEG GAY WAS A CHOICE. “OH, I MEAN, I THK THAT’S—THAT’S NOT EVEN AN ISSUE FOR ME TO BE VOLVED ,” THE WISNS ERNOR SAID. “THE BOTTOM LE IS, I’M GOG TO STAND UP AND WORK HARD FOR EVERY AMERIN, REGARDLS OF WHO THEY ARE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY E OM, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND, I’M GOG TO FIGHT FOR PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY VOTE FOR ME OR NOT.”“TO ACT ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE IS, TO DO THAT PROPERLY, YOU HAVE TO UNRSTAND OR AT LEAST HAVE AN OPN ON WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY’RE G OM,” REPORTER DANA BASH REPLIED. “I DON’T HAVE AN OPN ON EVERY SGLE ISSUE OUT THERE,” WALKER NTUED. “I MEAN, TO ME, THAT’S, I DON’T KNOW,” WALKER ANSWERED. “I DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN.”THE BORN-GAY QUTN WASN’T THE ONLY ISSUE PUTTG THE ERNOR A B OF A QUANDARY; HIS MUCH-CHRONICLED MENTS ON WHETHER OR NOT THE BOY SUTS SHOULD LET GAY MEN SERVE AS SUTMASTERS CREATED A B OF A HULLABALOO. THE ERNOR IALLY TOLD IJREVIEW THAT HE SUPPORTED THE EXCLNARY POLICY “BEE PROTECTED CHILDREN AND ADVANCED SUT VALU.”HIS MPAIGN TEAM PROMPTLY WALKED THAT BACK, UNTERG THE IMPLITN THAT GAY MEN PUT BOY SUTS DANGER. “THE PREV POLICY PROTECTED SUTS OM THE RANRO POLIL BATE OVER POLICY ISSU AND CULTURE WARS,” SAID MPAIGN SPOKWOMAN ASHLEE STRONG. “SUTS SHOULD NOT BE ED AS A POLIL FOOTBALL ON ISSU THAT N OFTEN BE HEATED AND DIVISIVE.”WALKER ALSO HAS GIVEN CUR ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT ATTENDG A GAY WEDDG. HIS SON ALEX WAS A WNS AT THE WEDDG OF HIS WIFE’S TO HER SAME-SEX PARTNER; WALKER WENT TO THE RECEPTN.“I HAVEN’T BEEN TO A WEDDG,” HE SAID APRIL AT A PRS NFERENCE NEW HAMPSHIRE, REFERRG TO SAME-SEX CEREMONI. “THAT’S TE EVEN THOUGH MY POSN ON MARRIAGE IS STILL THAT’S FED BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND I SUPPORT THE CONSTUTN OF THE STATE. BUT FOR SOMEONE I LOVE, WE’VE BEEN AT A RECEPTN.” WALKER MAY BE NO BETTER AT DISCSG THE ISSUE PRIVATE. THE WASHGTON POST REPORTED JUNE THAT ONE REPUBLIN BILLNAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER WHDREW SUPPORT FOR THE ERNOR AFTER THE TWO HAD A LONG ARGUMENT ABOUT THE ISSUE. AND THE ERNOR ALSO RECENTLY SUGGTED THAT REPORTERS HAD FOR WEEKS BEEN ACCURATELY SCRIBG HIS WIFE’S STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE. SO WHAT GIV? REPRENTATIVE MARK PON (D-WIS.), AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WHO WORKED WH WALKER WHEN THEY WERE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, SUGGTED HIS NFN MIGHT HAVE MORE TO DO WH HIS POLIL PROFILE THAN HIS POSN ON LGBT RIGHTS.“I’M TRYG TO CI IF ’S JT EXTREME PANRG OR UNFORTUNATE IGNORANCE,” HE SAID. “MOST PEOPLE QU THKG THAT WAY THE ’60S AND ’70S.”HE ADD, “I THK THE BT QUTN THAT SOMEONE SHOULD ASK HIM IS, ‘WELL, WHEN DID YOU CI TO BE STRAIGHT,’ GOVERNOR WALKER?”WALKER’S TONE IS A SIGNIFINT PARTURE OM THEIR DAYS THE ASSEMBLY, PON SAID. “HE NEVER DISPLAYED THAT PTH OF IGNORANCE WHEN HE WAS THE LEGIS OR AS ERNOR,” HE NTUED. “HE CERTALY TALKED A TOUGH GAME WHEN ME TO ISSU LIKE MARRIAGE EQUALY, BUT HE NEVER PUT THAT LARGE OF A DISPLAY OF MISRMATN OUT THERE AT THE TIME.”WISNS SOCIAL NSERVATIV SEEM NFINT THAT THE ERNOR’S EQUIVOTN ON THE QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY DON’T HAVE ANY BEARG ON HIS OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. “THERE’S ALL KDS OF ISSU THAT PRINTIAL NDIDAT ARE ASKED ABOUT,” SAID JULAE APPLG, WHO HEADS THE SOCIALLY NSERVATIVE GROUP WISNS FAY ACTN. “THE ERNOR AND I MAY HAVE SOME DIFFERENC OF OPN ON SOME OF THE THGS, BUT WHEN DOWN TO WHAT HE’S DONE TO SUPPORT THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT, THAT ’S SPECIFILLY BETWEEN ONE MAN AND WOMAN THIS STATE, HIS TRACK RERD SPEAKS FOR SELF.”DURG HIS FIRST GUBERNATORIAL MPAIGN, WALKER ADAMANTLY SUPPORTED THE STATE LEGISLATURE’S PH TO PASS A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT LIMG MARRIAGE TO ONE MAN-ONE WOMAN UPL. THAT EFFORT WAS SUCCSFUL AND HE FEND THE AMENDMENT URT, THOUGH S BACKERS ULTIMATELY LOST. IT WASN’T HIS ONLY TIME FIGHTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS. HE ALSO NSISTENTLY OPPOSED EFFORTS TO PROVI BENEFS TO THE SAME-SEX PARTNERS OF STATE AND UNTY EMPLOYE, AS THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS THEIR WALKER DOSSIER.BUT SCE THE STATE’S MARRIAGE AMENDMENT LOST URT, HE’S SHOWN LTLE VERVE TO DISCS LGBT ISSU.ON MEET THE PRS MARCH 2013, HE SAID YOUNG REPUBLIN VOTERS “DON’T WANT TO GET FOCED ON THOSE ISSU.” THE MILWKEE JOURNAL SENTEL REPORTED HE HAD AN AWKWARD EXCHANGE WH WISNS REPORTERS JUNE 2014 WHEN HE SUGGTED THAT HIS VIEW ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS DON’T MATTER AND THAT HE DIDN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT AT ALL.ON TOP OF THAT, HE TOLD BLOOMBERG 2013 THAT A PROPER BALANCE OF RIGHTS FOR LGBT PEOPLE WOULD PROTECT THEM OM DISCRIMATN THE WORKPLACE BUT ALSO KEEP THEM OM MARRYG. THAT’S HOW WISNS HANDLED GAY RIGHTS, HE SAID, AND THAT’S THE WAY TO DO .“WE’VE HAD NO PROBLEMS—OR I SHOULD SAY, LIMED PROBLEMS—WH THAT,” HE SAID, REFERRG TO THE STATE’S EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN LAW. “AT THE SAME TIME, WE STILL HAVE A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT THAT F MARRIAGE. THERE’S A HEALTHY BALANCE THERE.”SO WALKER’S RERD ON LGBT ISSU WAS A LTLE MORE NUANCED THAN, SAY, RICK SANTOM’S. BUT AFTER THE SUPREME COURT LED THAT SAME-SEX UPL HAVE A NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO WED, WALKER ME OUT FAVOR OF AMENDG THE U.S. CONSTUTN TO GIVE STAT THE RIGHT TO PROHIB SUCH UNNS. AND AS FOR THE SOCIAL NSERVATIVE LEARS HE NEEDS TO WOO ORR TO DO WELL IOWA? THEY LOVED . THEN THERE’S THE VIEWS OF HIS WIFE, TOTE. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED ON JULY 5, SHE SUGGTED THAT SHE DISAGRE WH THE ERNOR ON THE QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT SAME-SEX UPL SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY.“THAT WAS A HARD ONE,” SHE TOLD THE PAPER. “OUR SONS WERE DISAPPOTED. ... I WAS TORN. I HAVE CHILDREN WHO ARE VERY PASSNATE [ FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND STT WAS ON HIS SI VERY PASSNATE.”“IT’S HARD FOR ME BEE I HAVE A WHO I LOVE ARLY—SHE IS LIKE A SISTER TO ME—WHO IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, HER PARTNER OF 18 YEARS,” SHE SAID.THAT WAS WILY SEEN AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. TWO WEEKS LATER, ON JULY 13, ABC NEWS REPORTED THAT AS UNNTROVERSIAL FACT. “THEY WERE ALL ON ONE SI, DAD ON THE OTHER,” SAID HOST DAVID MUIR WHEN TALKG ABOUT THE FAY’S VIEWS ON THE ISSUE. SO THERE WAS: STT WALKER’S WIFE BACKED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. AT THE DAILY CALLER, MATT LEWIS WROTE A LUMN SUGGTG THAT THIS MIGHT GIVE SOME SOCIAL NSERVATIV PSE. AND IOWA NSERVATIVE RAD TALK SHOW HOST STEVE DEACE SAID THE WALKER FAY’S SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NCERNED HIM (“THAT’S NOT GOOD,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST). BUT ON SUNDAY, JULY 19—TWO WEEKS AFTER THE WASHGTON POST SUGGTED TOTE FAVORED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE—WALKER TOLD CBN NEWS’S DAVID BRODY THAT, ACTUALLY, ALL THOSE REPORTS WERE WRONG, AND SHE’S ACTUALLY AGAST LETTG SAME-SEX UPL MARRY.“MY WIFE ACTUALLY SUPPORTS MY POSN,” HE TOLD BRODY DURG AN TERVIEW WH BRODY ON HIS MPAIGN B. “SHE POTED OUT SHE WAS TORN BY THE FACT THAT SHE’S GOT ME WH A POSN AND SHE’S GOT OTHERS FAY MEMBERS DIFFERENT POSN, BUT BEG EMOTNALLY TORN DON’T MEAN THAT SHE’S GOT A DIFFERENCE OF OPN.”BUT WHAT IS THAT POSN EXACTLY? IT’S PLITED. BETSY SWAN
A clip of those remarks rurfaced this week, after a Twter acunt lled the Republin Acuntabily Project re-posted them (below) Amerin Inpennt reported May that Walker was asked at a rally, “Can we stop the gay weddgs?