Republican candidate brags about pulling her daughter out of college for supporting LGBTQ rights

Michelle Steel
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A Republican candidate for U.S. Congress was caught saying that she pulled her daughter out of college for “a year of brainwash” because the daughter supported LGBTQ equality, drawing laughs from the Tea Party crowd.

Michelle Steel is currently on the Orange County Board of Supervisors and she is running for California’s 48th Congressional District. Video of her speaking at a Newport Mesa Tea Party meeting in 2014 was released online this week.

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In the video, Steel told the Tea Partiers about her two daughters. The first, she said, is “perfect.”

But this is how she described her second daughter: “God’s always fair, so they give you a little different kid for the second one.”

That daughter went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year after high school, Steel said. The daughter started to get more liberal at college.

“Then she started talking about…

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