Virginia Foxx sends letter of apology to Matthew Shepard’s mother

By GottaLaff



Too much negative attention, MotherFoxxer? That second statement didn't quite give you the redemption you were looking for? Worried about losing that next election, huh?

[T]he Winston-Salem Journal reports that Foxx has written a letter of apology to Shepard’s mother, Judy.

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The Matthew Shepard Foundation confirmed that Judy Shepard received Foxx's note, but offered no comment on it.

"We are not commenting any further on Rep. Foxx's remarks on the House floor, or anything that was contained in a letter," Logan Shepard, the foundation's communications associate, wrote in an e-mail. "Everything that has been said already, is enough. We are trying to focus on the positive, which is, that the (hate-crimes bill) has been passed onto the Senate. We are looking to the future and our energy will be focused on putting the Matthew Shepard Act onto the President's desk."

Foxx declined to say in the WXII interview whether she now considers Shepard's death a hate crime.

Foxx's apology "shows that she doesn't necessarily understand what it was that she said wrong," said Becky Dansky of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "It wasn't just her word choice, it was the sentiment she expressed. It was incredibly disrespectful, not just to the mother of Matthew Shepard but to the thousands of other hate-crime victims out there."

Strike three, you're out.