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Brian and Maggie are really hard up these days after that flop-o-rama of a Summer of Marriage road show. So now they are thinking smaller and inevitably think they are going to be more effective by trying to unseat elected officials that are standing in their way of the master plan to take marriage away from “teh homosexuals” in DC. As expected, in a majority minority area, NOM plays the race card. Again. Peter Montgomery at Right Wing Watch:
As we’ve been reporting, the National Organization for Marriage has been pumping money into Washington D.C.’s Democratic Party primaries in order to make good on its threat to punish elected officials who supported the District’s marriage equality law.
…NOM is pouring its resources into attacks on Ward 5 Councilmember Harry ‘Tommy’ Thomas. We recently noted the chutzpah it took for NOM, which has bragged about efforts to get “white suburban Christian Republicans” to fund anti-equality candidates in DC, to send voters a flyer complaining about a fictional flood of “outside” money from San Francisco and New York supposedly attacking Hunter.
NOM’s latest flyer is even worse. It seems calculated for maximum divisiveness, featuring a rich, snooty, white guy looking down his nose at voters with claims that “DC Elites” are disrespecting voters in majority-Black Ward 5 by preventing a referendum on marriage equality. The flyer’s theme fits with comments by Bishop Harry Jackson, who has worked tirelessly to inflame racial divisions over the issue.
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The Washignton PostOne of the most infuriating things about this race has been the Washington Post’s endorsement of this bigot. They seem to place bogus school reform over civil rights.
Looks like……Alan Rickman.
DisrespectHow about respect of the many homosexuals that call DC home?
Their relationship doesn’t harm anyone and doesn’t threaten straight marriage.
If anything NOM is disrespecting good American citizens that pay taxes and contribute to society. Keep wasting money NOM. Every mailing you send out is another dollar in their coffin.
People see the crap for what you are. That’s why they haven’t gotten the support those attention shrived children have been begging for.
Coming this fall!Alan Rickman IS Tim Gunn in “Project Runway: The Motion Picture”!
Just start tying Jackson with Big Oilwhich he shuills for as a suburban corporate lackey of “the man” to weaken his influence. As for the rest, well, brian and Maggie are a “Whiter shade of pale” by any description and finding sell-outs to betray their own community for power and influence a la Ken Mehlman.
Just start tying Jackson with Big Oilwhich he shills for as a suburban corporate lackey of “the man” to weaken his influence. As for the rest, well, brian and Maggie are a “Whiter shade of pale” by any description and finding sell-outs to betray their own community for power and influence a la Ken Mehlman.
Should be interesting . . .An organization like NOM, which I’d bet is probably 99% white, is trying to play the race card against an African-American member of the DC Council. The world truly seems upside down sometimes.
His orange necktie……makes an interesting combination with his very pink skin.
According to http://www.dcist.com straw pollD.C. Democratic Party Straw Poll: Gray Wins Big
Photo by KCIvey.The District of Columbia Democratic Party held their annual convention at Howard University School of Law yesterday — and while we’re sure that the workshops and speeches by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and party chair Anita Bonds were plenty interesting, let’s be honest: in a huge election year, it’s all about the straw poll. The Party released the results of its poll for each office up for grabs in this September’s primary last night — and suffice it to say, there were some surprising results.
With 74 provisional ballots outstanding, Vincent Gray absolutely clobbered incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty, taking over 70% of the vote. While the validity of any given straw poll can certainly be questioned, it’s hardly a good sign for the current Mayor that he could only muster 190 votes from the party’s most involved members.
Gray’s win is certainly a boost, but if D.C. Wire’s report is accurate, his campaign had targeted the event as a response to some crafty maneuvering by the Fenty camp at Ward 8′s recent straw poll:
Gray volunteers blanketed the area with his blue signs in the morning. When Fenty supporters arrived in the afternoon, they had to scurry to create an equal presence with signs and stickers. Fenty was clearly outmatched and was booed, as well as cheered by supporters, during a forum for mayoral candidates.
Several other incumbents may also be sweating the results of the poll. Harry Thomas (facing a challenge from Delano Hunter in Ward 5) and Shadow Senator Representative Mike Panetta (whose main opposition appears to be Nathan Bennett Fleming) both won their respective races in the poll, but by less than overwhelming margins. Especially Thomas, who could barely claim a simple majority. Other results included Kwame Brown cruising to a relatively easy victory over Vincent Orange and others in the poll for Council Chair, winning with 62.3% of the votes. Phil Mendelson also claimed a straw victory, more than doubling up Clark Ray’s total in the race for the At-Large Council seat.
Predictably, Norton, Tommy Wells (Ward 6) and Mary Cheh (Ward 3) all claimed victories in their respective races.
Full results of the poll, after the jump.
Mayor
Vincent Gray – 703
Adrian Fenty – 190
Leo Alexander – 75
Others – less than 5 votes each.
Delegate to Congress
Eleanor Holmes Norton – 732
Douglass Sloan – 170
Donna Alston – 30
Shadow Representative
Mike Panetta – 235
Nathan Bennett Fleming – 170
Mike Jones – 57
Jon Khul – 27
Council Chair
Kwame Brown – 585
Vincent Orange – 329
Other – 25
At-Large Council
Phil Mendelson – 512
Clark Ray – 243
Donna Alston – 55
Laurent Ross -12
Ward 1 Council
Jim Graham – 187
Jeff Smith – 41
Bryan Weaver – 32
Ward 3 Council
Mary Cheh received 90 votes with no opposition.
Ward 5 Council
Harry Thomas – 116
Delano Hunter – 94
Kenyan McDuffie – 15
Kathy Henderson – 5
Ward 6 Council
Tommy Wells – 58
Kelvin Robinson – 32
A message for NOMParaphrasing, echoing, Rogers & Hammerstein
You’ve got to be taught
to hate the gays
and people who pray
in different ways
and fear the transgender
for all of your days
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
And NOM, that leads
their mindless sheeple
who teach their own children
to flock to the steeple
and hate on all sorts
of different people
They’ve all been so carefully taught.