New Hampshire State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Hillsborough, defended his recent blog post comparing Rep. Ann Kuster, D-N.H., to a “drag queen” and calling her “ugly as sin.”
In an e-mail to the Washington Examiner, Vaillancourt said he was commenting on a poll he saw showing a seven- to ten-point advantage for attractive candidates. He suggested I “check into that poll.” You can find a write-up of that poll from my colleague Paul Bedard here.
But does Vaillancourt regret his comments?
“Regret writing about the truth? Of course not,” Vaillancourt said. “… [O]r is it your contention that Annie Kuster is more attractive than I led my readers to believe?”
Vaillancourt said he had “very little feedback,” and “mostly from out of staters who said far worse things about me than I did Ms. Kuster.”
“Go figure!” he wrote.
But Vaillancourt does regret one thing:
“I guess I regret not writing about this earlier, but the poll prompted it … plus having been by Mados the prior weekend.”
Mados is the drag-queen bar where Vaillancourt, who is openly gay, saw the drag queen he said is more attractive than Kuster.
