A Texas newspaper rescinded its endorsement of a GOP candidate Friday after discovering he requires his children to marry white, straight, Christians if they want their trust fund money.
The Dallas Morning News initially supported Vickers Cunningham, a former state district judge who is running for a seat on the Dallas County Commissioners Court. After Cunningham acknowledged in an interview with the paper that he set up a living trust fund for his children in 2010. The trust fund offers disbursements at different milestones, and upon marriage it stipulates that the children must marry a white person.
“I’m supporting what my beliefs are,” he said in the interview. “I strongly support traditional family values, that if you marry a person of the opposite sex, that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution.”
Cunningham’s estranged brother told the newspaper that Cunningham used the N-word for years. A former campaign aide for Cunningham echoed the claim.
“Dallas County Commissioners Court Precinct 2 deserves better than the candidates in this runoff,” the editorial board wrote on Friday.
