GOP Senator defends wearing pink tutu after trolls label him a “groomer”
Facebook post explaining what was happening.“In 2020, I participated in the Real Men Wear Pink breast cancer awareness program to help raise money for a worthy cause.
I dedicated my participation in the program to my Nana – a breast cancer survivor. It was difficult to raise money that year due to COVID, but Melissa [his wife] and I put our heads together and came up with an idea where followers could send in a donation to ‘vote’ for one of three different embarrassing PINK costumes that I agreed to wear around my neighborhood that Halloween night while trick-or-treating with my kids.“The costume that raised the most money would be the one I would wear (and the idea was to make it as embarrassing as possible to raise as much money as possible).”The winning outfit was a pink tutu, a shiny pink top, and dyed pink hair.“It was a hit,” England continued. “We raised thousands of dollars, including money I collected from the good people in my neighborhood.
My kids loved it. It was a blast. And truth is, I would don that costume again in a heartbeat to raise money for breast cancer awareness!”There’s a tense GOP primary taking place in Mississippi next month.
Last week, England announced he was backing Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann for re-election. He also criticized one of Hosemann’s rivals, Chris McDaniel, as “weak and ineffective.”England says he began to get clapback from people affiliated with Hosemann’s rivals soon after he announced his backing for the incumbent.England says one of the people to message him was fellow Republican state senator Melanie Sojourner.
