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Gay Senate Candidate Reacts to Attack Ad on Mark Kirk
The candidate for U.S. Senate who IS gay is appalled by the accusation that another candidate might be.

Lawyer Jacob Meister, running in the Democratic primary, says he was shocked to hear Republican Andy Martin say that U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is gay, based on a "solid rumor" on the Internet.

"I listened to the radio commercial and I am shocked that in 2009, anyone could spew that kind of hatred on the airwaves," Meister said. "The voters have to call him out on it and the other candidates have to call him out on it."

So far the Kirk campaign calls the ad "untrue and degrading to the political process." Meister characterized the tactic as McCarthy-era, for the senator in the 1950s who purported to out communists in key positions, but had little factual basis for doing so.

Meister also noted that Kirk is an officer in the Navy Reserves. If it turns out he is gay, he will have to be discharged from the military under the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that Kirk supports and which Meister opposes. Meister says the military has investigated the sexual orientation of service members based on information as seemingly unreliable as the Martin claim.

(Illinois Radio Network)
12 28 09 by Newsroom
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