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Anti-Gay Smear Campaign Targets Texas Candidate
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Fort Worth, Texas) Sam Walls won't say what he was doing in the dress, but pictures of the 64 year old Republican candidate for the Texas House in full makeup, a wig, heels, and a dress, have been anonymously distributed to voters.
Walls is in a tight race against real estate broker Rob Orr for the GOP nomination. Voters will go to the polls April 13 in a primary runoff.
Walls blames the Orr campaign for releasing the pictures, calling it "`blackmail'' from opponents who are trying to use "very old, personal information'' to force him out of the race.
A leading businessman and former party chairman, Walls was the favorite to win, until the photographs surfaced. Since then GOP leaders have urged him to withdraw, but Walls says he has no intention of quitting.
"Now my opponent is using the private information in an attempt to intimate that I am a homosexual, which I am not,'' Walls said in a statement.
Walls said his family had dealt with' the issue, and he apologized to supporters for any embarrassment caused by "a small part of my personal past.''
The photos were apparently obtained by a company that repossessed a mobile home registered to Wells, according to court records._
Orr spokesperson Lee Woods denied involvement in making the pictures public, although he said that Orr's campaign staff learned of the photos and alerted Republican leaders.
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Fort Worth, Texas) Sam Walls won't say what he was doing in the dress, but pictures of the 64 year old Republican candidate for the Texas House in full makeup, a wig, heels, and a dress, have been anonymously distributed to voters.
Walls is in a tight race against real estate broker Rob Orr for the GOP nomination. Voters will go to the polls April 13 in a primary runoff.
Walls blames the Orr campaign for releasing the pictures, calling it "`blackmail'' from opponents who are trying to use "very old, personal information'' to force him out of the race.
A leading businessman and former party chairman, Walls was the favorite to win, until the photographs surfaced. Since then GOP leaders have urged him to withdraw, but Walls says he has no intention of quitting.
"Now my opponent is using the private information in an attempt to intimate that I am a homosexual, which I am not,'' Walls said in a statement.
Walls said his family had dealt with' the issue, and he apologized to supporters for any embarrassment caused by "a small part of my personal past.''
The photos were apparently obtained by a company that repossessed a mobile home registered to Wells, according to court records._
Orr spokesperson Lee Woods denied involvement in making the pictures public, although he said that Orr's campaign staff learned of the photos and alerted Republican leaders.
