After dumping a bag of glitter on GOP
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Nick Espinosa said his
“campaign needed a makeover.”
Gingrich and his wife Callista were
participating in a book signing in Minneapolis before attending a
benefit for the Minnesota Family Council, a group that opposes gay
rights, when Espinosa dumped his “gay” glitter on the former
House speaker.
“Feel the rainbow, Newt,” Espinosa
said as he doused Gingrich with glitter. “Stop the hate. Stop the
anti-gay politics. It's dividing our country and it's not fixing our
country.”
“Nice to live in a free country,”
Gingrich said as he cleaned the glitter off the table he was seated
at.
In an interview with ABC's Top Line,
the 24-year-old unemployed Espinosa said his protest was “fun.”
“I think that glitter's a lot of
fun,” Espinosa answered when asked about his unique protest.
“I invited Newt to feel the rainbow
because I don't want anyone, much less a serial adulterer, telling
people who they can and cannot love,” he added. “This is a man
with two divorces and three marriages, so I don't think he has much
ground to stand on the way he is treating GLBT people like
second-class citizens.”
“[T]he way this week has gone for
[Gingrich], I think his campaign needed a makeover.” (The video is
embedded in the right panel of this page.)