Last night U.S. Senator Mark Kirk was on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight with Carol Marin. One of the topics covered was the resignation of Party Chairman Pat Brady. The discussion went like this: (see video below at 4:26 minutes)
Carol Marin: Has this [same-sex marriage] become sort of a fire line of this, “Who’s a conservative and who’s not?”
Sen. Kirk: Actually, I didn’t want the Republican Party to be run by the top anti-gay bigot in the state.
Marin: When you say the top Republican bigot, you mean Jim Oberweis?
Kirk: No
Marin: Who do you mean?
Kirk refused to answer and moved the discussion to Apple and immigration.
So, the question is: Who is the top anti-gay bigot in the state?
Former Congressman Joe Walsh - who is one of the candidates being considered this weekend - thinks Kirk may have been talking about him.
Walsh told Illinois Review he will be discussing the issue on his show tonight.
