(Not an actual picture of Ashburn…but funny)
Oh, it’s all so delicious, and the flavors keep improving…Seems Ashburn was asked in 2009 by Lois Henry of The Bakersfield Californian if he was gay. His response?
"Why would that be anyone’s business? Including The Californian’s? I think there are certain subjects that are simply not relevant and this is one of them. It has no bearing on the job I do."
Henry pushed him, saying it was relevant because of his voting record, to which Ashburn replied that he’s voted against "almost all social issues". What a guy.
Then this, courtesy Towleroad…
Just last year he was outed on Facebook (natch) by the out gay mayor of West Sacramento. At the time, Christopher Cabaldon’s post on the social networking site: "It wouldn’t bother me so bad to see Roy Ashburn at Badlands with a boy if he didn’t have such a bad voting record on gay rights."
Just to make things funnier, Ashburn was at Faces Nightclub, a very cool and fun gay club in Sacramento the night of the Miss Gay Latina 2010 Contest, as Craig Ferguson points out in the attached video…
