VIDEO: OC Democratic official curses, accosts gay signature gatherers on Pride weekend

FULLERTON, Calif. (FOX 11 / FOX News) - A local Democratic Party official was caught on videotape verbally accosting signature gatherers in California during Pride weekend with a torrent of curse words and demanding to know, "Which one of you ---holes is the gay?"

The official, Jeff LeTourneau, followed up by saying, "You are a f---ing disgrace to any gay person I know, you piece of s---."

The exchange occurred in the parking lot of a Fullerton, Calif., Walmart where LeTourneau, a Vice-Chair with the Democratic Party of Orange County who is gay, discovered that gay volunteers were helping a grassroots group collect signatures to unseat Democratic state Sen. Josh Newman. The effort is in response to a gas tax hike that recently passed the Legislature along party lines.

"LeTourneau clearly thinks that if you are gay, you can only be a Democrat which is both arrogant and highly offensive," said Carl DeMaio, a gay former San Diego city councilmember and former GOP congressional candidate who can be heard on the video trying to calm down LeTourneau. "The idea that Californians are sick of paying higher taxes cuts across party lines and sexual orientation."

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