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Lexington, Kentucky elects openly gay mayor

Yay for intelligent citizens making informed choices.
 
>>>Yay for intelligent citizens making informed choices.

I'd have to know more about these candidates other than their sexual orientation to decide if they made "informed choices". But hooray for being homosexual not being an obstacle. :)

Lex
 
G-Lexington said:
>>>Yay for intelligent citizens making informed choices.

I'd have to know more about these candidates other than their sexual orientation to decide if they made "informed choices". But hooray for being homosexual not being an obstacle. :)

Lex
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Some good news for the gay community and Democrats as the Tea Party/GOP makes its gains. Don't look for any movement on gay issues with this right wing congress.
 
Ohio...dang it... Shame on you Ohio for removing those 3 Supreme Court Justices. Too many people don't value or understand what Constitutional Rights even are. I wonder how if that will scare off other Supreme Court Justices in the future. NOM was very successful in OH

MN Governor race too close to call...looks like a recount is in the works which is too bad. I wish people would have sent a message to corporations by having Emmer's lose by a landslide but that did not happen:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/03/AR2010110303194.html
 
Important 2010 election results include:

–David Cicilline’s election to Congress. The Providence, R.I. mayor will be the fourth openly gay member of the U.S. House of Representatives, joining Reps. Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank and Jared Polis, who each won reelection.

–Jim Gray’s election as mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, the state’s second-largest city.

–Nickie Antonio’s election to the Ohio House. Antonio will be the first openly LGBT person to serve in the state legislature.

–Marcus Brandon’s election to the North Carolina House. Brandon will be the state’s only openly gay state legislator and one of just five out African Americans to serve as state lawmakers.

–Victoria Kolakowski’s election as a Superior Court judge in Alameda County. Kolakowski becomes the first openly transgender judge in America.

–Kevin Lembo’s election as Connecticut State Comptroller. Lembo joins just a handful of openly LGBT candidates to have been elected to statewide positions.

–Laurie Jinkins’ election to the Washington State House. Jinkins is Washington’s first openly lesbian state legislator, and could help her gay colleagues pass a marriage equality bill in the next legislative session.

–Maryland’s and California’s expanded LGBT state legislative caucuses. Each will include seven openly gay and lesbian lawmakers. In Maryland, the caucus is poised to help pass marriage equality legislation, which the reelected Gov. Martin O’Malley has vowed to sign.

–Dan Hill’s loss in his Nevada House race. The Victory Fund’s endorsed Republican candidates for state legislative seats were not successful, meaning no openly LGBT Republicans will be serving as state lawmakers next year.
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http://www.gaypolitics.com/2010/11/03/record-number-of-lgbt-candidates-elected-to-office/
 
metta said:
Ohio...dang it... Shame on you Ohio for removing those 3 Supreme Court Justices. Too many people don't value or understand what Constitutional Rights even are. I wonder how if that will scare off other Supreme Court Justices in the future. NOM was very successful in OH

MN Governor race too close to call...looks like a recount is in the works which is too bad. I wish people would have sent a message to corporations by having Emmer's lose by a landslide but that did not happen:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/03/AR2010110303194.html
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Chuck Hurley: "We Did God's Will" By Removing Iowa Supreme Court Justices

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conte...ods-will-removing-iowa-supreme-court-justices
 
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Iowa voters oust justices who made same-sex marriage legal


The move was spearheaded primarily by Bob Vander Plaats, a Republican Sioux City attorney who lost the nomination for governor of the state and created the group Iowa For Freedom
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Although there wasn't much campaigning from the justices, some local officials began to throw support their way in an effort to help them keep their seats.

"If we allow political money to buy judicial retention elections, the quality of judiciary will be harmed and the perception of the judiciary will be diminished," the Iowa group Fair Courts For Us said on its website.

The group wrote on its site that a "special interest group" was "pouring money" into the race, when in the past three decades all of Iowa's judicial campaigns had "combined spending of $0."

So when Vander Plaats' group told voters it was "time to take a stand against the radical judicial activism of the Iowa Supreme Court," the Fair Courts for Us group did what it could to help.

And while the justices did not actively campaign to keep their seats, Ternus did give a speech last month that warned against the power of special interest groups -- like the groups that campaigned against the justices. "[They want] our judges to be servants of this group's ideology, rather than servants of the law."

But Vander Plaats and his group said they were afraid that the legal precedent set for same-sex marriage could lead to the erosion of other freedoms -- and that was why voters needed to speak up.

"If the Iowa Supreme Court will do this to marriage, every one of our freedoms, including gun rights and private property, is in danger of being usurped by activist judges who are unelected officials," Vander Plaats' group says on its website.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/03/iowa.judges/index.html
 
Iowa Supreme Court Judges' removal boosts gay marriage foes


gay marriage foes said they plan to press Republicans who took over the governor's office and the state House to work toward a gay marriage ban.
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The judges chose not to raise money and campaign. But a group of former governors, lawyers and judges formed as Fair Courts For Us to support them, saying Iowa's independent judiciary was at risk if a one-issue campaign succeeded in removing the justices.

Dan Moore, the group's co-chairman, said advocates need to educate Iowans about the court system and the importance of keeping money and politics out of it.

"What I want Iowans to know is that our courtrooms need to be the safest place for parties to go to work out their differences and disputes," Moore said. "They need to know courts will be fair and impartial and decisions won't be based on fear and popularity."
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http://www.timesrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/534712.html
 
G-Lexington said:
>>>Yay for intelligent citizens making informed choices.

I'd have to know more about these candidates other than their sexual orientation to decide if they made "informed choices". But hooray for being homosexual not being an obstacle. :)

Lex
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Maybe you would have known more about these candidates if you followed their races.
 
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