Tag Archives: 2010 elections

Ya think Sharron Angle would do the same? Hah.

Towleroad notes that Providence, Rhode Island mayoral candidate Christopher Young was also thrown out of a debate last month for refusing to remove the giant statue of the BVM he’d brought with him.

The Kansas Equality Coalition writes us today to report that Dan Manning, a Democratic candidate for the state legislature, has had death threats posted to the front door of his home. As many of you know, one of our Equality Coalition members, Dan Manning, is running for Kansas House of Representatives in Wichita. Originally from southern Georgia, Dan is a …

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight makes its debut as part of the New York Times today, where he gives us the above predictions for this year’s Senate races. It looks like Silver is predicting that the Democrats will lose about seven seats, yet retain a slim majority.

Transgender GOP congressional candidate Donna Milo finished last in a three-way race in yesterday’s Florida primary, garnering 22% of the total votes. As we noted here in May, Milo opposes marriage equality and believes that “traditional parents” should have precedence when it comes to adoption decisions. So long, Donna. You were a mildly interesting, if very annoying, blip on our …

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the man who paid Dr. George “Rentboy” Rekers $130,000 in his bid to keep gay adoption illegal, has lost his GOP primary bid to become his state’s next governor. Former health-care executive Rick Scott clung to a narrow lead over Attorney General Bill McCollum on Tuesday night in the race for the Republican nomination for …

Michele Bachmann’s first TV ad of the campaign season introduces us to “Jim, the election guy,” who promises “I’ll be back later,” presumably in follow-up commercials. Maybe Crazy Eyes knows how grating her voice is.

In one of the longest and strangest attack ads we’ve seen yet, California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado goes after his 2010 opponent, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Today in crazy teabaggers we have California GOP congressional candidate Mattie Fein, who attacks Rep. Jane Harman (D) with this Young Frankenstein spoof in which Harman is portrayed as Cloris Leachman’s immortal Frau Blucher. And yes, that’s really Mattie Fein in the clip. UDPATE: The clip’s maker writes to say that Fein is “not a teabagger or a Tea Party …

Tom Emmer’s got seven kids and he uses them all to shill for his bid for Minnesota governor.

Meg Whitman surprised no one when she announced this weekend that if she becomes governor of California, she will defend Proposition 8 in court, something Schwarzenegger declined to do. However many are questioning whether the timing of both the election and the appeal to the Ninth Circuit would allow Whitman to do so. Karen Ocamb spoke to Lambda Legal’s Jon …

“Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check. We’ll teach them personal hygiene … the personal things they don’t get when they come from dysfunctional homes. These are beautiful properties with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities. You have to teach …

GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has announced that she will defend Prop 8 in court if elected. “The issue right now is, as I understand is ‘Will Proposition 8 have the appropriate support to actually make an appeal to the circuit court of appeals?’ ” Whitman said. “And I think the governor, the attorney general today has to defend the …

He’s the alternative, the Reagan alternative!