TX-23: National Republicans Are Ordering Up Attacks On A Democrat's Sexual Orientation
he congressional GOP’s campaign arm is asking other Republican and conservative groups to attack Gina Ortiz Jones, the Democratic candidate for a key swing House seat in Texas, for being gay.
A National Republican Campaign Committee website outlining its preferred attacks on candidates instructs outside groups to include reminders of Jones’ sexual orientation in digital and television advertising and mailers, highlighting an image of Jones with her partner and the talking point that “Jones and her female partner lived and worked near Washington, DC, not Texas” before Jones ran for Congress.
Democrats and gay rights advocacy groups blasted the instructions as homophobic.
“These personal, homophobic, and transphobic attacks shows how shameless and low Tony Gonzales and the NRCC are willing to go in the race for Texas’s 23rd Congressional District,” said Rebecca Marques, the Texas state director at the Human Rights Campaign. “It also shows how shallow their case is against a formidable veteran candidate of color and member of the LGBTQ community.”
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