Congressional candidate Alex Morse has received a long-overdue apology for a smear campaign meant to derail his political ambitions.
The University of Massachusetts – Amherst College Democrats have penned an open letter of mea-culpa admitting to wrongdoing and claiming that the letter–published in the UMass Amherst school newspaper–was never meant to be made public.“We want to tell you that we are deeply sorry for the distress that the public reaction to the letter must have caused you,” the letter reads in part according to The Hill. “We should have realized that the language of the letter was careless and played into homophobic stereotypes that have been used to oppress gay men in politics.