Florida GOP Candidate's Bisexual Daughter Slams Mom in Viral Video
Source: The Advocate
Florida GOP Candidate’s Bisexual Daughter Slams Mom in Viral Video
BY JACOB OGLES
MAY 25 2022 12:47 PM EDT
Hannah Stargel knew if she publicly criticized her mother, a candidate for Congress, it could generate attention. But a day after posting a TikTok clip labeling Florida state Sen. Kelli Stargel as “the worst mom ever,” the Florida woman feels a little overwhelmed by the level of interest.
On Tuesday morning, less than a day after it was first published, the TikTok video already had nearly 68,000 views.
“I did want a reaction,” Stargel told The Advocate. “I didn’t expect it to blow up overnight.”
In the viral clip, the 28-year-old calls her mother out as a hypocrite for running for years on a family values platform, meanwhile leaving her children in the care of neighbors during legislative sessions and imposing beliefs through strict discipline when she was at home.
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The latter legislation stings especially for Hannah Stargel. Not only is she a member of the LGBTQ+ community herself, her boyfriend has a transgender daughter directly impacted by the law. Its passage created a rift in the family — Stargel’s sister Laura Stargel criticized the legislation in an op-ed published by the Orlando Sentinel last year — for both its bigoted substance but for the manner in which it passed. Sen. Stargel at one point announced the bill was dead in the Senate and would not be carried through the legislative process, then brought it back through a procedural maneuver, offering the language as an amendment to an unrelated bill. Having grown up in a family deeply engaged in the lawmaking process, Hannah Stargel said that was the type of backroom dirty trick looked down upon by her parents.
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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/25/florida-gop-candidates-bisexual-daughter-slams-mom-viral-video
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