Bolling Campaign Nixes Twin City Guidebooks Over Gay Tourism Section

By Eric on September 1, 2008

Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling’s re-election campaign is really scared of Teh Gay. So scared, in fact, that they shipped the Minneapolis-St. Paul guidebooks they had ordered for the Virginia RNC delegation back to the publisher because the books included a few pages for gay and lesbian visitors.

Bolling (R) had planned to give the guidebooks, published by the Rake, to the 123 members of the Virginia delegation to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

A Bolling spokesman said Monday that the lieutenant governor never saw a copy of the guidebook but would not have had a problem with it.

A staffer reviewed a copy and canceled the order because of the section for gays and lesbians, said Randy Marcus, Bolling’s chief of staff and a convention delegate. Bolling’s campaign ordered another guidebook for the delegates and alternates instead.

“We are sorry that this has occurred and wish it had not happened,” Marcus said. “We wish it had not happened.”

So…. are they apologizing for ordering LGBT-friendly guidebooks? Or for shipping back something that Bolling “would not have had a problem with?” Or for inconveniencing the publisher with the return? Huh?

In any event, someone ought to tell Bill Bolling that you can’t turn people gay with a tolerant guidebook.

Tags: Bill Bolling, LGBT, RNC, Virginia

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