Gay congressional candidate falsely accused of being a “pedo sex poet” by desperate Republicans

The ad says he called women “breeders,” but he wasn’t talking about women specifically and he wrote “breeder,” singular.
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A gay Congressional candidate in Michigan who is challenging an anti-LGBTQ Republican is being targeted by an ad that calls him “creepy” for statements he made over a decade ago that were wildly taken out of context, as part of a larger campaign that has called him “a meth-using, pedo sex poet.”

John Hoadley is running as a Democrat for the U.S. House and the Republican super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) is using words from his Live Journal from 2004 to 2007 to imply that he’s a pedophile who takes meth. At the time, Hoadley was in his early 20s, while his Republican opponent was in the U.S. Congress voting for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality.

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CLF’s ad accuses Hoadley of being “creepy” because, the ad claims, he called women “breeders,” said he wanted to “learn about crystal meth,” admitted to having sex with a “victim,” and wrote the words “four-year-old in a thong.” The blog has already been deleted.

In context, though, the quotes are very different. He wrote in June 2005 about…

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