Tag Archives: Ken Mehlman

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Tonight Keith Olbermann laid out exactly how Ken Mehlman worked with the religious right in 2004 to get gay marriage on the ballot in eleven states. Dan Savage joins Olbermann to point out that Mehlman also said nothing when gay men were being murdered “with impunity” in Iraq after the Bush invasion.

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CNN Host John King Quotes Joe JerVAY

Whoever the hell THAT is. Oh, well. I’ll post the clip when it appears. UPDATE: The New York Daily News botched my name too. But, oh look. They also have an Asshat/Not Asshat poll about Ken Mehlman.

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Tweet Of The Day – Dave Holmes

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Quote Of The Day – Geoff Kors

“One of the things I sincerely hope Ken Mehlman has done or will do is to explain to George W. Bush how denying LGBT people equality causes real harm and how the GOP’s anti-equality platform and campaigns lead to teen suicides and hate crimes. I hope he explains how bigotry impacted him and that he has asked George W Bush …

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Kudos To Mike Rogers

With yesterday’s coming out of Ken Mehlman comes further validation of the important work of outing kingpin Mike Rogers, who had been telling us about Mehlman for years. Rogers prefers to call what he does reporting, rather than outing, because when any politician is secretly doing the very thing he’s railing against on Capitol Hill, that’s fucking news. When Rogers …

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HomoQuotable – Ken Mehlman

“Look, I have a lot of friends who ask questions and who are angry about it. I understand that folks are angry, I don’t know that you can change the past. As I’ve said, one thing I regret a lot is the fact that I wasn’t in the position I am today where I was comfortable with this part of …

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FLASHBACK: Mehlman Endorses Evil Homophobe Rick Santorum

Go to Jeremy Hooper’s Good As You and read Ken Mehlman’s enthusiastic endorsement of Rick Santorum in 2003. Mehlman’s thumbs-up came shortly after Santorum’s famous denouncement of Lawrence Vs. Texas in which he compared homosexuality to “man on dog” sex and incest.

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The Original Ken Mehlman

“Now to someone who does not understand this, homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. But really this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a pissant antidiscrimination bill through the City Council. Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who …

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Newly Out Ken Mehlman Continues To Fund Many Anti-Gay Politicians

He may be out now, but Michael Jones reports at Change.org that Ken Mehlman continues to fund numerous politicians who are working day and night to repress his fellow homosexuals. [F]or those questioning Mehlman’s motives in coming out, or his commitment to really advancing LGBT equality, his political donation history certainly won’t quell any skittish nerves. Look him up on …

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FLASHBACK: Mehlman Supports 2005 Federal Marriage Amendment

In January 2005, GOP Sen. Wayne Allard (CO) introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment (a verbatim restating of the earlier failed Federal Management Amendment) with 21 Senate GOP co-sponsors. Later that year the bill was approved for review by the full Senate Judiciary Committee. Newly appointed RNC chair Ken Mehlman gave the bill his full support to reporters at an Ohio …

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FLASHBACK: Mehlman Pushes 2004 Ohio Ballot Measure To Ban Gay Marriage

In 2004 then RNC head Ken Mehlman directly told Ohio’s anti-gay bigots to get a marriage ban on the ballot. Mehlman was interviewed after he spoke to the Summit County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner March 19 at Quaker Station. “I’m here to say thank you,” Mehlman told the gathering, “because Summit County increased its votes for George W. …

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New York Times Whitewashes Ken Mehlman’s Anti-Gay Past

Check out how the New York Times reports Ken Mehlman’s history with the GOP. Mr. Mehlman was in Mr. Bush’s inner circle in both presidential campaigns and ran his campaign in 2004, when the party courted Christian conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage. But Mr. Mehlman, in his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee and as head of Mr. …

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FLASHBACK: 21 States Banned Same-Sex Marriage During Mehlman’s Reign

During Ken Mehlman’s reign as Dubya’s campaign manager and afterwards during his tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee, 21 states passed laws that banned same-sex marriage. Some of these laws made same-sex marriage unconstitutional, some made both civil unions and same-sex marriages unconstitutional. All of these anti-gay referenda took place from 2004-2006 and all of them were pushed …

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FLASHBACK: Mehlman Campaigns For Anti-Gay 2006 GOP Rep. Mark Kennedy

“If you believe as I do that we ought to not base the laws of America over the laws of foreign countries, if you believe as I do that we need to have “Under God” in the Pledge, if you believe as I do that we need judges who understand their job is to interpret the law and protect the …

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FLASHBACK: 2006 Mehlman-Approved Race-Baiting Ad Against Harold Ford

Not only did the ad imply that black Democrat Harold Ford cavorted with, gasp, white women (how uppity!), the ad charged that Ford took money from filthy pornographers. Mehlman refused to have the ad pulled even after loud complaints from the NAACP, saying it was an “independent expenditure.” (But check the “paid for by the RNC” tailer on the clip.) …

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FLASHBACK: 2005 Mehlmann Cartoon

Ken Mehlman even tried to shift the blame for the invasion of Iraq.

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FLASHBACK: Ken Mehlman Outed On Larry King By Bill Maher In 2006

CNN immediately edited this exchange for the west coast broadcast, removing all mention of Mehlman’s gayness. Mehlman resigned the next day, but planted stories that the move had been planned for a long time.

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FLASHBACK: 2004 Mehlman Mailer

(Via – AlterNet)

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Scumbag Ken Mehlman Factoid

Don’t forget for one fucking minute that it was Ken Mehlman who presided over the Republican Party while the GOP ensured that anti-gay items would be on MANY state ballots in order to drive homophobes to the polls. From Marc Ambinder’s Atlantic column: Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party …

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Repulsive Anti-Gay Quisling Homophobic Scumbag Asshat Closeted Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman Has Come Out

Maybe the $4M loft he bought in gay gay gay Chelsea this summer did (or more likely, brought) the trick, as Mike Rogers reports today that repulsive 2004 Dubya campaign manager and former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman is about to come out. [UPDATE: It’s official. See update at the bottom of this post.] In 2004 Steve Schmidt (then the Republican …

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