AWisconsin RINO who appears to have a penchant for “sexually explicit” material — and a connection to a trans porn site — has dropped out of the Badger State governor’s race.
Whitefish Bay businessman Bill Berrien, who also had a past dalliance with the disastrously kinky election method known as ranked-choice voting, quit Friday following reports linking the candidate to several “sexually explicit accounts” on social media. He apparently connected to said accounts through the platform Medium, where he followed Jiz Lee, a “trans” sex peddler, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported earlier this week.
Berrien reportedly followed “publications” on Medium such as “Sexography,” which bills itself as “An inclusive place for people to talk about and explore #sexuality from all orientations, cultures, and perspectives.”
‘Very Intellectually Curious’
Announcing his decision to leave the race, Berrien said his campaign was “gaining traction” until “the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published this week two articles clearly targeted to force me out of the race.”
It’s all a misunderstanding, the former candidate claimed after his connections to many of the “sexually explicit social media accounts” were reportedly scrubbed. He’s a “very intellectually curious” guy. He said he listens to podcasts and is “constantly trying to take in new information, trying to learn something new.” To that end, Berrien said he follows more than 5,000 people across many platforms, subscribes to more than 100 newsletters, and has liked “perhaps 20,000 different articles or postings.”
“I thought it was a strength to read very widely and show a broad intellectual interest,” Berrien wrote in his farewell. “[T]he media cherry-picked a handful of individuals and written articles that came across my feed that I then followed (without the faintest clue as to an author’s lifestyle choices!) 6 or 7 years ago …”
“Lee, the trans porn star … has been on Medium since 2015 and has 1,500 followers,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Lee only has one post on Medium from 2015 titled “Ethical Porn Starts When We Pay for It,” an article for which Berrien reportedly expressed support on the platform. Lee’s Medium page currently “directs people to [his] personal website,” which is updated “fairly regularly.”
Berrien’s campaign officials confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that the former candidate set up his Medium account in 2018 but used it “rarely” since 2019. However, his spectrum of learning apparently took Berrien to “Polyamory Today,” a forum that celebrates multiple sexual partners, presumably outside their primary relationship.
On Tuesday, Lee, who “identifies” as nonbinary, posted an angry message on Bluesky above an article on Berrien.
“It’s okay to follow trans porn stars. It’s okay to read articles about sex and relationships. What’s not okay is the hypocrisy of backing forceful legislation that restricts what people, trans and otherwise, can do with their own bodies. That is shameful,” scolded the porn pusher.
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