A Texas congressional candidate has sharply criticized the National Republican Campaign Committee over its suggestion that she should be attacked because of her sexual orientation.
The Huffington Post reported Democrat Facts, an NRCC website, published a picture of Gina Ortiz Jones and her partner and noted “Jones and her female partner lived and worked near Washington, D.C., not Texas” before she ran for Congress.
A spokesperson for the NRCC on Tuesday told the Huffington Post it removed the reference to Jones’ sexual orientation from the website.
Democrat Facts’ profile of Jones still contains a picture of her with her partner. A talking point under the “hits” tag still refers to her partner and sexual orientation. “Before deciding to