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TX Republican on Grindr as Power Bottom in Double Life says Ex-Wife

Tell-all interview had me squirming.

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Tommy Paine
Nov 26, 2025
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For the second time in 2025, a scorned woman has managed to end the career of a prominent Texas Republican politician in under thirty minutes.

LJ Francis serves on the Texas State Board of Education, representing about 1.5 million Texans, and those 1.5 million people may soon be left with dropped jaws. His ex-wife’s tell-all interview piles on so many startling revelations that choosing the single most shocking one feels impossible. Even trying to build a “top ten wheels-off allegations” list from what Andrea Francis revealed about this prominent, well-funded Republican feels impossible.

Jackie Besinger is an education commenter and she posted an interview that will live in infamy in Texas political lore as yet another Republican whose actions undermine the party’s claim to “family values.”

“On our fourth wedding anniversary, we went to Cabo San Lucas, and we spent a week in San Diego after that. And he was talking to men on the street. There’s this app on his phone that you can

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