Gay Democratic Candidate Comes out to His Dad a Tea Party GOP’r} In Campaign Ad

 

In a new campaign ad that will air on Wednesday, openly gay Democratic House candidate Carl Sciortino Jr. comes out to his tea party father, as a liberal Democrat.

Huffington Post reports:

Sciortino, currently a member of the Massachusetts House, is running to fill Sen. Ed Markey’s (D) empty House seat. The special election in the heavily Democratic district is set for Dec. 10, with the primary on Oct. 15. Sciortino is facing four other Democratic candidates.

Sciortino’s ad features his father, Carl Sciortino Sr., lightheartedly bemoaning his son’s liberal leanings.

“I’ll never forget that conversation with my dad where I had to come out and tell him that I was a Massachusetts liberal,” says the younger Sciortino in the ad.

“He wants to go to Congress to take on the NRA and the tea party!” laments his father.

Sciortino adds that he won’t give up on fighting for an assault weapons ban, “or universal background checks or banning high-capacity magazines,” adds his father.

Carl closes by saying he also supports “the right to choose, equal pay for women and equal rights for, well, everybody!”

Watch the ad below: