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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterAn openly gay Palm Springs City Council candidate endorsed by the local Log Cabin Republicans chapter described himself four years ago as a “proudly anti-homosexual Republican” in a letter to a Washington state newspaper.


“I have never supported that type of lifestyle or the people who choose it,” candidate Drew Sweatte, 22, wrote in a May 7, 2005 letter to the editor of the Spokesman-Review, which covers the Spokane, Wash. area.
The letter, which Sweatte wrote when he was 18, supported then- Spokane Mayor Jim West, who was recalled from office that year amid a sex scandal that revealed he was gay. West opposed gay rights during his two decades as a Washington state politician, according to the Spokesman-Review.
“I acknowledge that he has admitted to leading a personal life that is very much against my values but his personal life is just that, personal,” Sweatte, a Spokane native, wrote in 2005, defending West after the scandal broke


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He has Tom Delay's endorsement
Haha the kiss of death