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May 22, 2020      2:59 PM

After calling LGBTQ Caucus member Sarah Davis anti-LGBTQ, national group backtracks.

Annise Parker, head of Victory Fund, backs Davis’s opponent; Davis said she appreciated the correction

A national LGBTQ group led by former Houston Mayor Annise Parker has apologized for calling Rep. Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, an opponent of LGBTQ rights in a fundraising e-mail.

The e-mail was sent by the Victory Fund, the political action arm of the Victory Institute, which promotes electing LGBTQ candidates to public office. Parker, a Democrat has run the organization since 2018.

Among the candidates they’re supporting is Davis’s Democratic opponent, attorney Ann Johnson, who is bisexual. Johnson is listed as a “spotlight candidate running against an-LGBTQ incumbent.”

Johnson is also backed by Parker, who fundraised for Davis’s 2018 opponent Allison Sawyer and is an ally of Houston Councilmember Ellen Cohen, whom Davis defeated in the Tea Party wave of 2010.

By James Russell

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