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Anti-Tax In Loudoun, Anti-Gay Everywhere
Local Supervisor Leads National Lobbying Effort

By Michael Laris
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 8, 2002; Page B01

In Loudoun County, Supervisor Eugene A. Delgaudio is best known as an ardent critic of his board's efforts to cut home building and control growth in the sprawling suburb.

But Delgaudio has another public life, one that many of his constituents, critics and local campaign contributors are unaware of.

The local GOP politician has spent two decades and millions of dollars warning that gays are dangerous.

Off the dais, Delgaudio is executive director of Public Advocate of the United States, a lobbying group that reports spending more than $5 million between 1997 and 2000 on a nationwide campaign that has often vilified gays as pedophiles and violent criminals.

"You'll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to 'pick out' a little boy for themselves," read a 1998 letter from Delgaudio seeking money to fight gay adoptions.
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Delgaudio's mailings over the past decade -- including fundraising letters, political postcards and newsletters -- take what industry experts call a "hard sell" approach.

"As homosexuals die off due to AIDS, the remaining AIDS carriers prey on children to replenish the 'Homosexual Community,' " a 1991 Delgaudio letter reads. "I absolutely must find $73,575 before the end of next month to pay for printing, telephones, research, and postage."

A 1995 letter reads: "Just imagine a world where the police allow homosexual adults to rape young boys in the streets."
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Politics has always been in the family. His father was a conservative campaigner. Delgaudio's brother, Richard, also runs multiple lobbying groups in Northern Virginia that have championed conservative causes.
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