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CA GOP Legislator Roy Ashburn: 'I'm Gay'
Zachary Roth | March 8, 2010, 1:22PM
State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-CA)
The family-values California Republican legislator who was reported to have been at a gay club on the night last week that he was arrested for drunk driving has acknowledged he is gay.
"I'm gay," State Senator Roy Ashburn told a radio host from his central California district in an interview this morning. "Those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long."
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Roy Ashburn
Sources: Family Values GOPer Was At Gay Club Before Drunk Driving Arrest
Zachary Roth | March 4, 2010, 9:17AM
CA Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield)
A California Republican family values legislator who was arrested early Wednesday morning for drunk driving had recently left a gay club, sources tell a local news channel.
State senator Roy Ashburn was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday at 2am in Sacramento, after police saw the car he was driving swerving erratically. An unidentified male passenger was in the car with Ashburn.
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