Tag Archives: 2010 elections

I just came across this clip of Gov. Paterson’s great speech at the Union Square post-vote rally/protest on Thursday, in which he vowed to bring the NY Senate back for another vote “if I think the votes are there.” Paterson is probably the single greatest LGBT ally of any state governor – we owe him our vigorous support in his …

Quoting an unnamed gay activist, today the NY Daily News says that pro-equality forces are planning an 2010 “bloodbath” for Democratic state senators who voted against same-sex marriage. Gay advocates are on the warpath after the state Senate killed same-sex marriage last week, and few Democratic senators who voted against the bill are safe from their wrath. After spending more …

Queens Democrat Joseph Addado, who was elected with the help of LGBT groups like the Gill Action Fund, says he had to vote “no’ on marriage equality because so many calls from constituents told him to. Via Julie Bolcer at the Advocate: In 2008, state campaign finance records indicate that Addaboo received $9,500, the maximum allowable contribution, from gay philanthropist …

• Joseph Addabbo (D-Queens) — NO• Darrel Aubertine (D- Cape Vincent) — NO• Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) — NO• Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) — NO• Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) — NO• Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) — NO • George Onorato (D-Queens) — NO• William Stachowski (D-Buffalo) — NO Remember all of these names. I will be coming back to you to help fund their …

The Courage Campaign today announced their withdrawal from the campaign to place a repeal of California’s Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot. Most major LGBT and progressive groups have opposed a 2010 effort, preferring to wait until 2012. Via press release: “For months, we have laid out the criteria for moving forward. Like the Obama Campaign, we understand that we …

The GOP is considering addressing internal dissent on important issues by creating a list of ten position points. Oppose the party line on more than two of those items and you’re totally no longer BFFs with the RNC and will lose funding and endorsements. On that list of ten is same sex marriage. Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing …

Moderate GOP candidate for governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker has named openly gay state Sen. Richard Tisei as his running mate. “Richard has years of experience fighting for the taxpayer on Beacon Hill and I’m thrilled to have him on the team,” Baker said in a statement posted on his campaign Web site. The Web page contained on CharlieBaker2010.com included …

Insiders report that former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani plans to challenge Kristen Gillibrand for her Senate seat in 2010 rather than run for New York governor, as has been long rumored. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. The Republican heavyweight was considered …

Love Honor Cherish has launched an internet drive to gather one million petition signatures in California to place the repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot. The signature-gathering drive will use social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter, organizers said in a statement. “We’re taking names,” said John Henning, who is heading the SignForEquality.com effort launched to collect …

Hillary keeps trying squash a persistent rumor.

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his clip promoting Restore Equality 2010, the petition and fundraising drive to put marriage equality on the 2010 ballot in California. Many major LGBT and progressive groups have decided to wait unto 2012 for such an attempt.

Worried about the coming midterm elections, Democrats are running scared from any controversial legislation and say they aren’t sure that a repeal of DADT will even be on their agenda in 2010. Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want their leaders to skip the party’s controversial legislative agenda for next year to help save their seats in Congress. In the run-up …

Citing brutal political fallout for his Joe Jervis Day proclamation earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the race for California governor. I kid, I kid, nobody wants him. Newsom is withdrawing from the Democratic primary amid lackluster poll numbers and meager fund-raising receipts. His withdrawal leaves state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, who is expected …

Fearing that New Jersey’s lame-duck legislature will approve same-sex marriage after the November election, GOP and Christian activists are renewing their push for the issue to be put on the 2010 ballot. Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) yesterday said Gov. Jon Corzine made a deal with another prominent lawmaker to vote on it during a lame-duck session that follows Election Day. …

Andrew Sullivan points us to this piece by the Kreskin of politics, Nate Silver, who says that the GOP stands a decent shot at retaking the majority in the U.S. House in 2010. The current state of the generic polls gives the Democrats .412/(.412+.377) = 52% of the two-party vote. Going to the graph, we see, first, that 52% for …

The coalition of California groups working for a repeal of Prop 8 in 2010 has filed the language to appear on the ballot, should their petition drive be successful. “Starting today, there is new hope for committed gay and lesbian couples who want to get married,” said John Henning, Executive Director of Love Honor Cherish, a grassroots group that is …

Marriage equality activists gathered in San Diego yesterday to plot their campaign to overturn Prop 8 in 2010. Rex Wockner reports: Attendees at the meeting — which took place in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, far from the city’s gayborhoods — elected three regional representatives to Restore Equality 2010’s 30-member Statewide Advisory Council. The 2010 campaign has divided the state into …

NY Gov. David Paterson says that despite being told by the White House that he should drop his 2010 election bid, he plans to continue to run.

OMG. President Obama has sent a message to NY Gov. David Paterson telling him to drop his plans to run for governor in 2010. Former Lt. Gov. Paterson became governor in 2008 after Eliot Spitzer resigned in a prostitution scandal. President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, …

Bill Clinton has issued an early endorsement of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s bid in the 2010 California gubernatorial race. But does Clinton really like Newsom or is this payback for Jerry Brown? Seventeen years after Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed in the 1992 race for the White House, the former president made clear today that bygones will not …