Tag Archives: 2010 elections

GOP Candidate For CA Attorney General:
I Will Defend Prop 8 In Court

Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley says that if he is elected as state Attorney General in November, he will defend Proposition 8 in court. Current AG Jerry Brown had declined to do so. “The role of the attorney general is to defend the will of the people,” says [Cooley spokesman Kevin] Spillane. “He would defend (Prop. 8) and appeal” …

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NEW YORK: Log Cabin Republicans Endorse Anti-Marriage AG Candidate

The Log Cabin Republicans today issued their endorsement of Dan Donovan for New York Attorney General. Donovan opposes marriage equality, but grudgingly allows that he’d defend whatever law the state enacts. Via press release: “I’m honored to receive the endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans. As Richmond County District Attorney, I’ve worked tirelessly to ensure that our system of justice …

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FLORIDA: GOP Candidate For Gov Rips AG Bill McCollum Over Rekers Scandal

With the Florida primary less than a week away, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, who is trailing Attorney General Bill McCollum by 12 points, has launched an all-out effort to further saddle McCollum with the George Rekers rentboy scandal, as evidenced by the above mailer Scott sent to voters this week. Readers of this blog temporarily shut down McCollum’s Facebook …

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Limbaugh Did It First

The RNC uses the escape chute metaphor against Obama. (Via – New York Magazine)

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He’s On A Cow

Dr. Daniel Freilich is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy in next week’s Democratic primary in Vermont. Here’s his take on the popular Old Spice commercials. (Via – Towleroad)

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New From Sharron Angle

Complete with depression-era music via Barber’s Adagio For Strings. (I prefer William Orbit’s techno version, of course!)

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Sally Kern Is At It Again

This is a new campaign ad from Brittany Novotny, the trans attorney running against Sally Kern for the Oklahoma legislature.

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New From John McCain

Complete with a dog-whistle Border Patrol vehicle in the very first shot, but still one of McCain’s more muted spots. That’s obviously because McCain leads teabagger loon JD Hayworth by more than 20 points in the latest poll. The primary is next Tuesday.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Fights Back

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GOP Sues Florida Tea Party

World Net Daily has rescinded its sponsorship of the Florida Tea Party’s 2010 convention after the GOP sued the group in state court. Because the Florida Tea Party is secretly full of Democrats. Via the Orlando Sentinel: The state Republican Party launched an attack on the Florida Tea Party on Wednesday, paying for lawsuits against several Tea candidates with the …

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More Double-Speak From Sharron Angle

In this ad Angle claims to want to save Social Security (from Harry Reid, of course), but that’s certainly not what she’s said in the past: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized. I’m saying it can’t be fixed. It’s broken.”

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The Potatoe Doesn’t Fall Far…

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Did Dinner With A Male Porn Star Bring Down Minnesota’s Gay State Senator?

Openly gay Minnesota state Sen. Paul Koering lost his GOP primary reelection bid yesterday in a campaign that got ugly and personal after Koering was seen dining with a young male porn star. The race between Gazelka, a former state representative, and Koering, R-Fort Ripley, was notable for its focus on Koering’s personal life, and for efforts by state Republicans …

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PhoboQuotable- Bill McCollom

“I really do not think that we should have homosexuals guiding our children. I think that it’s a lifestyle that I don’t agree with. I realize a lot of people do. It’s my personal faith, religious faith, that I don’t believe that the people who do this should be raising our children. It’s not a natural thing. You need a …

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GOP Rep. Tom Price (GA) To Introduce Bill To Prohibit Lame-Duck House Session

Today Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) plans to introduce a resolution demanding that the House of Representatives suspend all business in between election day and the day in January 2011 when Congress is rightfully returned to the God-fearing hands of the Republican Party. Because the Marxist/Socialist/Communist Democrats plan to go crazy during the lame-duck session. Leftists do not think ObamaCare’s unconstitutional …

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Maddow On Minnesota’s Anti-Gay GOP Candidate For Governor, Tom Emmer

And how he’s tied to the Christian rock band that calls for the execution of homosexuals.

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TENNESSEE: Basil Marceaux Loses

Internet idol Basil Marceaux lost his bid for governor of Tennessee on Thurday when he scored less than 1% of the vote in the state GOP primary (an event overlooked here due to the Prop 8 hubbub). Today the Washington Post analyzes Marceaux’s web popularity. Basil Marceaux was one step further. For a public exhausted by politics-as-usual, he offered not …

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Will Sharron Angle Return Her Dirty Money From Gay-Friendly Companies?

Days after Sharron Angle declared that she would not accept donations from companies that support LGBT rights, the Daily Beast’s Steve Friess wonders what Angle will do about the filthy gay-friendly money she’s already received. The Tea Party favorite, facing off against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, checked “yes” on a questionnaire from the Government is NOT God PAC on …

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NEW YORK: Activists Attack Senate Leader Over Support For Anti-Gay Dems

New York Senate leader John Sampson met with the Stonewall Democratic Club in Brooklyn this weekend where activists ripped him a new one over his support for Sen. Ruben Diaz and Sen. Shirley Huntley, both of whom vigorously oppose marriage equality. Things got so heated at the meeting that Sampson threatened to walk out. Sampson has angered gay advocates with …

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Target Gets 240,000 Boycott Petitions

From this clip’s description: Irate activists visited Target HQ to extend the boycott of Target Stores for the $150,000 contribution the corporation made to a group supporting Republican Tom Emmer. Emmer is seen as an enemy of LGBT people, immigrants and other groups. Randi Reitan, the woman seen on YouTube last week cutting up her Target charge card to protest …

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