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'Please for the love of God do not vote for my dad': Republican's daughter voices opposition
Her father sounds like the total über-conservative asshole. Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade. Good on her.
6/27/20
It’s not the usual rallying cry one might expect from a political candidate’s child as their father runs for office, but the daughter of a Republican candidate has urged people in Michigan to “please for the love of god” not vote for her father. “Tell everyone,” Stephanie Regan wrote in a viral tweet – which has now been liked more than 180,000 times on Twitter. She called on voters to research the background of her father, Robert Regan, for themselves in a follow up tweet, writing: “I don’t feel safe rn sharing further information regarding his beliefs, but please look him up and just read for yourself.” He is running in Michigan’s primary for a state House seat this August. Her words seem to have come as a blow to Regan, who has espoused a commitment to his family on his campaign website, using multiple photos of himself and his children on social media to support his campaign. He has spoken on local TV since his daughter sent out the tweet, blaming her liberal college education for her views. “When they go off to college, quite frankly they get involved with these Marxist, socialist universities and they start getting indoctrinated with things that are completely polar opposite from where you raised them,” Regan told local TV.
Regan, who describes himself on his own website as “so conservative [he] makes Rush Limbaugh look like a liberal,” says the beliefs that his daughter seems to object to concern racism. Regan told the Hill that he and his daughter have disagreed on systemic racism, white privilege and Black Lives Matter. “She’s a big believer in that,” he told the Hill, adding: “The only place where I really see systemic racism would be the abortion clinic cause they seem to target the African American community.” His tone seems to have taken a turn since Thursday, when he posted a lengthy statement to Facebook that seemed appreciative of his daughter’s political engagement. “I am happy that she feels confident enough in our relationship to express her opposing thoughts so publicly” while encouraging her and others to voice their own opinions, he said.
Her father sounds like the total über-conservative asshole. Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade. Good on her.