The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, Jerri Ann Henry, resigned from her post “over discontent with Trump and dissatisfaction with Log Cabin’s approach to defending its Trump endorsement in the media,” reported the Washington Blade.
The news came just days after Jennifer Horn, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party, left her position on the LCR’s national board last week on similar grounds.
“There is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president,” Horn told the Washington Post. “It is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society.”
Notes the Post, Horn wrote a letter to LCR chair Robert Kabel and vice-chair Jill Homan expressing her displeasure with the president’s “regular verbal assaults against women, immigrants, elected members of Congress, party members who do not agree with him on policy or principle and his willingness to stoke racial anger and unrest in order to advance his own political ambitions all subvert the founding principles of our great nation.”
Horn resigned after the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Trump in a recent Washington Post op-ed.
According to USA Today:
The Log Cabin Republicans endorsement comes as a reversal after its board of directors voted against endorsing him in 2016, a year before Horn joined.
Kabel and Homan praised Trump in the op-ed published in the Post for “taking bold actions that benefit the LGBTQ community,” pointing out his desire “to end the spread of HIV/AIDS in 10 years.”
Trump on Tuesday told reporters he was “doing well in that community” in response to being asked about the endorsement.
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