{"id":93807,"date":"2025-05-04T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93807"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T21:29:41","slug":"john-reid-hey-big-spender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/john-reid-hey-big-spender\/","title":{"rendered":"John Reid &#8211; Hey Big Spender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Reid <\/strong>is running for <em>Lieutenant Governor <\/em>of Virginia.&nbsp; He\u2019s a Republican, a former conservative radio host, and openly gay.&nbsp; Allies of <strong>Glenn Youngkin<\/strong>, the Republican governor of Virginia, have been trying to pressure Reid to drop out of the race.&nbsp; Reid revealed, \u201cRepresentatives of my campaign have been told by the leader of Governor Youngkin\u2019s political organization that the attacks on me will continue unless I drop out of the race for lieutenant governor.\u201d&nbsp; Reid refused, adding, \u201cThis is extortion, and it is illegal in Virginia.\u201d&nbsp; Suddenly, photos of Reid at a drag show surfaced.&nbsp; \u201cDrag is not for kids but really, who cares what adults watch or what they do in an of-age restaurant or bar or club?\u201d responded Reid.&nbsp; Then Youngkin personally called Reid asking him to bow out.&nbsp; \u201cWhat I didn\u2019t expect was the governor I have always supported call and demand my resignation without even showing me the supposed evidence or offering me a chance to respond.&nbsp; I do no accept that and deeply resent it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then made a lengthy statement, which included the following: \u201cI\u2019ve been openly gay for 30+ years.&nbsp; I\u2019ve not broken the law.&nbsp; I\u2019ve told the truth about who I am for years, and I\u2019ll do it again now.&nbsp; I was on-again\/off-again single and dating for many years before I met my partner over 8 years ago.&nbsp; Am I expected to answer every twisted, intrusive question about my previous relationships?&nbsp; Every person I ever had sex with?&nbsp; Every dating app I was ever on?&nbsp; Must I share my gay <em>Tinder <\/em>profile?&nbsp; Every profile picture on the internet?&nbsp; The 78,000 photos on <em>Facebook<\/em>?&nbsp; Every late-night text?&nbsp; Is anyone at the <em>Richmond State Capitol <\/em>or in DC planning on doing the same?&nbsp; It\u2019s not my place to judge others, so I won\u2019t.&nbsp; But I haven\u2019t publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic.&nbsp; Have I seen porn?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Have I had one-night stands?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Are my exes all still in love with me?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; What more can I possibly tell you, and why am I the candidate who has to answer questions on this topic?&nbsp; Let\u2019s be honest: It\u2019s because I\u2019m openly gay and I have never bowed down to the establishment, and I will not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Reid is running for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.&nbsp; He\u2019s a Republican, a former conservative radio host, and openly gay.&nbsp; Allies of Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia, have been trying to pressure Reid to drop out of the race.&nbsp; Reid revealed, \u201cRepresentatives of my campaign have been told by the leader of Governor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93808,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807\/revisions\/93808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}