The Best Anti-Gay Expert We Could Find

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Former Rep. and now Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor has been nose-diving for a couple months. And one of the first bumps on the road was when the main he hired with tax payer dollars to be the state of Florida’s official anti-gay expert was caught returning from a European vacation with a male escort. McCollum is now explaining that in fact Rekers was the best anti-gay expert they could find. See the video.

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