Last week's outing of Rick Perry
pollster Tony Fabrizio has prompted Andrew Breitbart to quit the
advisory board of gay GOP group GOProud.
In blasting Perry's anti-gay ad Strong,
GOProud co-founders Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher Barron also outed
Fabrizio.
(Related: Stephen
Colbert on Rick Perry ad: Unlike being gay, loving Christmas is not a
choice.)
“I've just about had it with faggots
who line their pockets with checks from anti-gay homophobes while
throwing the rest of us under the bus,” wrote LaSalvia on Twitter.
Barron later added that LaSalvia was
referring to Fabrizio.
However, The
Huffington Post reported that the ad had divided Perry
staffers and quoted Fabrizio as calling the ad “nuts.”
On Friday, LaSalvia continued in a
statement, saying that “Tony Fabrizio is not the victim here.”
“Rick Perry should be embarrassed and
the people around him who are the architects of this strategy
particularly people like Tony Fabrizio, should be ashamed,” he
said.
Writing on his website, Breitbart, the
publisher of BigGovernment.com and a conservative celebrity, called
the outing “extreme and punitive.”
“I have zero tolerance attitude
toward the intentional infliction of vocational and family harm by
divulging the details of an individual's sexual orientation as a
weapon of political destruction. As an 'advisory board member' I was
not consulted on this extreme and punitive act. Clearly, there are
more productive means to debate controversial ideas and settle
conflicts.”
“Therefore, I cannot in good
conscience stand with GOProud,” he added. “I still stand by gay
conservatives who boldly and in the face of much criticism from many
fronts fight for limited government, lower taxes, a strong national
defense as well as the other core conservative principles.”