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09.04.2008 11:57pm EDT
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) The McCain campaign’s senior adviser Steve Schmidt met with Log Cabin Republicans Thursday, a day after the gay GOP group endorsed John McCain for president.
“I want to pay my respects to your organization on behalf of the campaign. Your organization is an important one in the fabric of our party,” Schmidt told the organization at a lunch in Minneapolis hosted by Log Cabin to honor openly gay convention delegates.Schmidt has served as day-to-day campaign manager since early July.
“Keep fighting for what you believe, because the day is going to come,” Schmidt told the group.
“The Campaign’s efforts to reach out to Log Cabin members are reflective of Sen. McCain’s inclusive record and indicative of the type of campaign he is running,” said Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon. “Log Cabin is proud to support Senator McCain in this important election.”
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter also spoke at the event.
Log Cabin’s endorsement of McCain was not unexpected, but prompted a rebuke from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization.
“[McCain] actively campaigned for a constitutional amendment that would have banned marriage and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples in his home state of Arizona,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese.
“He went so far as to appear in television commercials for that campaign, is now supporting an amendment to strip marriage equality from California couples and has said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts,” Solmonese said.
Log Cabin Republicans endorsed then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000, but declined to endorse President Bush in 2004—largely over the president’s push for a federal anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment and his decision to use gay people as a wedge issue in winning re-election.
mccain to lcr: send me more money so i can use it against you!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Obama to HRC: Send me more money so that I can tell you the things you want to hear and never give you any of the results. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
It astounds me how ignorant even some of our own can be. The man wont even support domestic partnership, much less gay marraige. He’d re-criminilize sodomy if he could, but the Supreme’s took care of that.
drunken republican to trace:obama with a dem house & senate will deliver on ending “don’t ask don’t tell”(citizens support this but mccain & party don’t).obama & dem. congress will keep the federal anti-marriage amendment from being passed(citizens support this but mccain & party don’t).obama & dem. congress will pass pro-glbt hate crime laws(citizens support this but mccain & party don’t).obama & dem. congress will protect glbt workers with federal laws banning discrimination(citizens support this but mccain & party don’t).obama & dem.congress will give more foreign glbt’s asylum from possible prison/torture/death if they return to their home country(citizens support this but mccain & party don’t=just lip service about “compassionate conservatism”).obama & dem.congress will fight to overturn “defense of marriage act” over the next 2-8 years(citizens are in the middle on supporting this but mccain & party don’t show any).with every issue i’ve named,obama & dem. congress will improve glbt lives across the nation & advocate many of these policies for other countries to consider.we will have an oval office standard bearer unlike bush & even clinton. i’m in the middle politically like you are. i wish paul/barr/nader could pull some type of upset but most voters seem content on constantly re-electing the big 2. if you & other glbt moderates/independants(like me)would go left for just this 1 election we could have most of what we wanted actually passed by the federal government & not depend on the courts to give it to us. the biggest thing to scare the far right is that we could have many victories in the next 4 years with the dems in control & not be able to use the “unelected judges” whine we have had to listen to for the past 15 years(i’m refering to the texas sodomy case & amend. 2 in colorado both struck down by the supreme court). the “religious right” must be having a near-death experience this time around with dems in such good shape to push them to the back benches like happened in ‘93-’95.no candidate/party is perfect,but if all glbt’s voted a complete dem. ballot this time around we could move on to other issues in 2010 & 2012.the bottom line is when hrc gives $ to obama & dem. congress,we will be given many results after waiting for so long.so in regards to your reponse i will just say HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! bad logic should be made fun of.
Drunken, show me the evidence and proof that this would happen.
What are you basing these assumptions on?
Being that Democrats have been in control in time of past and in the House/Senate the last two years, what advances has government made?
No advances for the gay community have ever come from the government. Time to face the facts, gay folk really are not that important to either political machine.
Kari,
This just in today from the LA Times:
The decision to take over the companies (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) is the latest — and most momentous — move by the government in its year-old struggle to respond to what many say is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
“Healthy economy” “Crisis in one sector (the mortgatge mess) not affecting other sectors”? GW having no responsibility for this mess?
Keri, are you really serious? Vote McCain for more of the same.
From Washington Blade staff reports | Sep 12, 10:07 AM
It now appears inevitable that Democratic National Committee Chair Howard
Dean will face off in court against his former gay outreach director,
Donald Hitchcock.
Hitchcock was fired from his DNC post in 2006, shortly after his domestic
partner, Paul Yandura, wrote an open letter to gay Democrats urging them
to withhold donations to the party because he felt Dean wasn’t doing
enough to combat anti-gay state ballot initiatives.
Hitchcock later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Dean and the
DNC alleging, among other things, anti-gay discrimination. The DNC denies
the claims.
Hitchcock announced Thursday that final efforts at mediation had failed,
all but ensuring that the case will go to trial, perhaps as early as this
fall.
“I am profoundly disappointed that our final mediation attempt has
failed,” Hitchcock said in a statement. “Over the last 18 months, I have
in good faith initiated multiple attempts to resolve this matter,
including before this lawsuit was even filed.”
He said a trial is now “imminent,” adding, “ I am a loyal and committed
Democrat and this election cycle is not only important to me but is of
paramount importance to the country and my LGBT brothers and sisters.
After this important election, I look forward to having my day in court
and having justice served.”
First, The Washington Blade endorses Senator Obama for president.
Second, at least the Democratic party has a national gay Outreach Director. The Republican Party does not, and never has done any outreach at all to the LGBT community.
Third, while the DNC may not have been fighting anti-gay state ballot initiatives strongly enough according to Mr. Yandura, at least the Democratic party has been fighting them. The Republican party, on the other hand, was not only supporting these hateful initiatives, it was the driving force behind many of them.
The current initiative to have a constitutional ban against gay marriage added to the Florida constitution was funded by the state’s Republican party. The Florida Republican party has paid $150,000 to the group that gathered signatures to get this hateful measure on the ballot.
Night and day, Republican party and Democratic party.
These hatefukl tactics are something the democratic party would never engage in.
I’m gay and I support McCain and I’m an Independent voter. The left seem more intolerant than the right to all groups! I hate how they group everyone too! Still, those things have nothing to do with my vote. McCain is a centrist and he’s right on all of the important issues that are most important! As for the gay issue, Obama and McCain have the SAME SOLUTION–let the states decide! Do the Democrats want a cookie for having the exact same position? Please, let me know when they are right on the economy,taxes,war,energy,treating others with real respect,etc! Gay Independents for McCain!