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Iuculano launches anti-gay attack on Beckner

Posted Sep 30, 2011 by William March

Updated Sep 30, 2011 at 09:53 PM

Republican Hillsborough County commission candidate Margaret Iuculano, challenging Democratic Commissioner Kevin Beckner in the District 6 race, has launched a thinly veiled anti-gay attack on Beckner, the county’s first openly gay commissioner.

In a fundraising letter to supporters, Iuculano links Beckner to an “ultra-liberal style San Francisco agenda.”

“San Francisco, controlled by a radical, left-wing city council, continues to impose the same agenda Kevin Beckner is attempting to force on Hillsborough County,” Iuculano says in the letter.

San Francisco, of course, is known a city where gay activists have become influential in politics.

Iuculano doesn’t mention any gay rights issues in the letter.  Instead, she brings up Nancy Pelosi and illegal immigration, and says, “As conservatives successfully fight to shut down the liberal agenda at the state and federal level, the radical left shifts its attention to America’s city halls, county commissions and local courthouses,” and asks donors to “promote our shared values by sending me a check.”

Here, courtesy of Peter Schorsch’s St. Petersblog, are a couple of pages of the letter.