Longtime DC Bureau Chief Donates, Advocates for Liberal Gay Democrat in Virginia

Cragg Hines, a longtime Washington bureau chief and columnist for the Houston Chronicle (who retired in 2007), announced his very strong backing of a liberal gay Democrat for the Virginia State Senate. In the gay magazine Metro Weekly , Hines wrote “it would be worth electing him just to see the look on the faces of right-wing Republican legislators and their sometimes vicious, off-the-wall supporters” when he was sworn in.

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