MI-06: Jon Hoadley is facing the most disgustingly homophobic race in years
To reasonable voters, Jon Hoadley looks like an up-and-coming Democratic leader. At the age of 37, he has been working on progressive causes for more than 15 years and has been serving in the Michigan state legislature since his election in 2014. Last August, Hoadley won the Democratic primary to challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Fred Upton, who entered Congress during the Reagan administration.
What should be a standard issue race has become of the most viciously homophobic Congressional campaign in recent memory, thanks to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and Upton.
The NRCC has slurred Hoadley as a “pedo sex poet.” Upton, who has a rating of 15 out of 100 from HRC, is running a $500,000 ad campaign that implies that Hoadley is a meth head. The fallout, says Hoadley, goes far beyond his own campaign.
“It hurts everyone in the LGBTQ community, not just in a campaign context,” he told LGBTQ Nation. “They’re leaning into these old stereotypes to justify trying to make people scared or fearful of LGBTQ folks.”
At issue are blog posts Hoadley wrote in his early 20s.
“It’s just innocuous day-to-day posts about my life as a young LGBTQ advocate,” Hoadley says. “It got to the point where I used it very infrequently and I forgot about it.”
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