Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Mayoral Candidate Has Arrest Record For Money Laundering, Promoting Prostitution

September 21, 2023 Christianists, Republicans

Nashville’s CBS affiliate reports:

Controversial Franklin mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson insisted she was being transparent when she took to social media Tuesday night to admit to having been arrested back in the 90s for promoting prostitution. Hanson — who’s running a campaign with a morality-based, anti-LGBTQ message — posted the video hours after NewsChannel 5 Investigates texted her and asked her for comment on her criminal history.

But a NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered there appears to be a lot she left out of the story she chose to share with her followers — including suggestions that she was much more heavily involved with a Dallas escort service that police even knew her as having an alias. She claimed that, as far as she knew, it was “a modeling and casting company who was placing ads in J.C. Penney, various commercials.” Hanson insisted she never realized that she was actually dispatching call girls for hook-ups with johns.

Read the full article. There’s so much more!

As I noted last week, Hanson and her campaign manager last year helped lead the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to ban her town’s Pride celebration. I reported on those efforts at the time here and here.

In the final clip below, Hanson’s campaign manager claims that the Pride festival provided children with “dildos and butt plugs.”

Last week Hanson was also accused of using the photos of minority women in her campaign materials, falsely claiming that they support her. Those women say they’d never heard of her.



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