My pals from CA stick to the bigots on the right!
Front Page Story in the
San Francisco Chronicle:
Gays answer GOP call for candidates Log Cabin Club members vie for 4 Senate, 7 Assembly seatsSeveral weeks ago, Assembly and Senate Republican political strategists put out a call to GOP groups asking them to recruit candidates for legislative districts where the party needed to show the flag.
It turns out the flag they're showing is rainbow-colored.
The group that recruited the largest number of candidates was the Log Cabin Club, the main gay GOP organization in the state.
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If they become the party nominees -- and seven are running unopposed in the March primary -- that guarantees the Log Cabin members a seat on the state GOP central committee and the possibility of more seats, depending on how well the candidate runs.
"We want people to have a true choice," said Shane Connolly, 35, a corporate finance manager and a Log Cabin Republican running in the 13th Senate District, a South Bay seat. "We want to send a message that the Republican Party isn't what you may think it is."
It's a message that some Republican leaders are happy to send.
"We are the party that allows for diverse positions on any number of issues," said California Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim, who spoke supportively of the efforts of the Log Cabin members.
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Even (Democrat Gay Assemblyman) Leno concurs that being a gay Republican "seems like a tortured and strained position."
Log Cabin Republicans say they're Republicans first.
"I could never be comfortable in the Democratic Party, no matter how supportive they were of gay rights," Bissiri said, citing his objections to the Democratic positions on foreign policy, taxing, spending and "the way they revert to class warfare."
"Gay rights ultimately will be won through the Republican Party because the only way we're going to win is when middle America gets it, and middle America is Republican," (state chairman of the Log Cabin Club) Bissiri said.
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