Tag Archives: 2010 elections

This was supposed to be an official Sharron Angle press conference. But when the speaker at the podium opened up the floor to questions, Angle turned on her heel and fled the venue, pursued by the press that her own campaign had invited.

Yesterday Matthew Vanderpool, an openly gay candidate for the Kentucky state legislature, issued a press release declaring that he had rejected campaign donations from the Victory Fund because he didn’t want to be in their “back pocket.” Vanderpool said that while he is gay, he “has no gay agenda” and that being gay “does not define my entire life or …

New Hampshire white supremacist Ryan Murdough is running for the state legislature as a Republican and the GOP is very unhappy about that. Ryan J. Murdough, a 30-year-old who says he works with children with special needs at a youth center, is running for a seat on the State House in New Hampshire’s 8th District. And he’s doing it as …

Former GOP Rep. Scott McInnis, who is running for governor of Colorado, has been accused of plagiarizing work that earned him a $300,000 fellowship from a local education foundation. McInnis claims that the stolen work came from a researcher he hired. From a newspaper editorial calling for him to drop out of Colorado’s governor race: McInnis can make a reasonable …

Senate majority leader Harry Reid has surged past GOP candidate Sharron Angle in a new poll after having trailed Nevada’s teabagger hero in past surveys. The Democratic incumbent’s aggressive strategy of attacking Angle’s staunch conservative views from the moment she won the June 8 primary has cost her support among every voter group — from men and women to both …

Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel can’t say why, exactly, but she just rilly rilly opposes LGBT rights. The interviewer asks for her reasoning. “As a Christian woman, I just do.” Jeebus loves her! Glory! Praise His Name! (Turn this clip up, low audio.)

Last September I told you about Rescue Marriage, the prankster group that claims to want to ban divorce in California. Yesterday the state granted permission for the group to begin gathering the required 694K signatures to place the issue on the 2010 ballot. Rescue Marriage founder (and straight ally) John Marcotte said last year, “People who supported Prop 8 weren’t …

Today the Empire State Pride Agenda endorsed 2010 NY Senate candidate Charlie Ramos in his bid to unseat the state’s most vile homophobe, Sen. Ruben Diaz. Via press release: As you probably know, Senator Diaz is our most vocal foe on marriage equality and transgender non-discrimination in the State Senate. He led rallies against marriage equality, spoke and voted against …

Even Fox News seems to be over her.

South Florida’s gay GOP club, the Sunshine Republicans, has endorsed Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist for the U.S. Senate. But they are being shady about saying so, according to Shark Tank. The Sunshine Republicans is a club that branched off from the local Log Cabin Republicans and is headed by Dr. Ben Lewis, Ph.D. The Vice President of the group …

Sharron Angle is threatening to sue Harry Reid because his campaign staff has republished some of her own statements on a site called Sharron Angle’s Underground Bunker. Because the way to bury something you’re embarrassed for having said is to sue somebody for repeating it. A spokesman for Harry Reid notes: “These are Sharron Angle’s positions in Sharron’s own words …

Fight Back NY, the LGBT action PAC funded by Tim Gill, has announced their latest target. Our next target: We’re going after Buffalo Democrat Bill Stachowski. Sen. Stachowski’s voted against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) New Yorkers at every turn, whether it’s nondiscrimination protections or marriage equality. Sen. Stachowski’s been part of the dysfunctional New York State Senate for …

Richard Nixon’s grandson Chris Cox is an oil industry lobbyist running for Congress against Long Island incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop (D). Cox recently moved into Tricky Dickie’s old mansion in the Hamptons in order to establish himself as a resident. But he’s a man of the people, as you’ll see in the below address to the Conservative Society for Action.

The Human Rights Campaign has hired Bloomberg aide Brian Ellner to head a new group to take on New York’s anti-marriage state politicians. The Campaign for New York Marriage will do similar work to that of the Tim Gill-funded Fight Back NY. You may recall that Ellner was recently all but named to replace Alan Van Capelle as head of …

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the favorite to replace David Paterson as governor, says he is confident that he can make same-sex marriage a reality during his first year in office. Via Advocate: “My opinion, from my policy point of view, it is a priority,” he said. State of Politics reports that, “He also voiced confidence that he could get …