Arrested on sex charges: GOP politician is McCain campaign Florida co-chairman

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 8:51 AM PDT

2007/07/12 · 08:51

SHOCKER! A closeted gay GOP Florida House member was arrested for soliciting sex from a police officer. As if one has to ask, his voting record for the past 5 years has been 90%+ with the Christian Coalition. And, duh, he was endorsed by the state's Right to Life Committee.And, get this, he's McCain's co-chairman in Florida!

Closeted gay, anti-gay Republicans in politics: The gift that keeps on giving.

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Saturday May 12, 2007 · 11:45 AM PDT

2007/05/12 · 11:45

CBS News reported today that Michael Aaron Lay, an aide to (the unmarried) Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), was arrested on voter fraud charges.

There is more to the story than you're reading in the CBS news item. LOTS MORE.

First here's the item from CBS on Lay:

The indictment charges that Michael Aaron Lay, 26, illegally cast his ballot in two 2004 Congressional primary run-offs in which McHenry was a candidate. The charges indicate that Lay voted in a district where it was not legal for him to vote.

At the time Lay was listed as a resident in a home owned by 32-year-old McHenry but campaign records indicate Lay's paychecks were sent to an address in Tennessee. McHenry won the primary by only 86 votes. According to Gaston County, North Carolina District Attorney Locke Bell, Lay was indicted on Monday, May 7 by a local grand jury.

There's A LOT more than this guy at McHenry's House!
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Thursday May 03, 2007 · 11:55 AM PDT

2007/05/03 · 11:55

Here's the list of Democrats who think Matthew Shepard's death did not deserve to be included in the hate crimes list:

Marion Berry (AR-1)
Dan Boren (OK-2)
Christopher Carney (PA-10)
Robert "Bud" Cramer (AL-5)
Lincoln Davis (TN-4)
Joe Donnelly (IN-2)
Brad Ellsworth, Brad (IN-8)
Bart Gordon (TN-6)
Mike McIntyre, (NC-7)
Charlie Melancon (LA-3)
Collin Peterson (MN-7)
Mike Ross, Mike (AR-4)
Heath Shuler (NC-11)
Gene Taylor (MS-4)

These so-called Democrats didn't even have the decency to stand up to the lies and hate of the radical right.

DNC posts non- discrimination policy after activist demand

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Friday January 12, 2007 · 12:13 PM PST

2007/01/12 · 12:13

Good news. I had a feeling that once the political arms of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) added their non-discrimination policies to their respective websites that the DNC itself would feel the pressure to add it as well. Bingo!

I am happy to report that my campaign to have all of the national party arms add their non-discrimination policy to their websites has been a 100% success.

Here's a recap and an easy way for you to gain the attention of folks in positions to make things happen. Armed with a $9.20 domain name -- www.WhereIsThePolicy.com -- (the most important activist tool of the 21st century) an activist can demand and make change.

A recap after the jump...

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Monday January 08, 2007 · 12:37 PM PST

2007/01/08 · 12:37

Her's an update on an earlier post about the fact that Democratic organizations are hiding their non-discrimination policies from public view. (see: The elections are over, it's now an issue - Dec 21, 2006.)

NEW UPDATE...JUST IN:
http://www.dccc.org/...

I had an email exchange with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today. I'm really happy to report that less than two hours after I sent a reminder email this morning I received a reply.

I wrote a note explaining that I had hoped it was not necessary to launch my new domain purchase, www.WhereIsThePolicy.com.

more after the jump.

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24 hours

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2 days

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1 week

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Never, in fact, I wonder if there really even is a non-discrimination policy at the DNC

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The elections are over, it's now an issue

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Thursday December 21, 2006 · 1:48 PM PST

2006/12/21 · 13:48

Some time ago I noticed that the Democratic National Committee refused to put its non-discrimination clause on its website. After a few emails with staffers at the DNC, a number of fellow political activists suggested I wait until after the mid-term election to make this an issue.

I've waited... It's an issue.

I had a another recent exchange with the press office of the DNC... And while the human resources department refused to provide the policy back when I first asked for it, the media folks sent it to me:

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 9:54 AM PST

2006/12/13 · 09:54

Within hours of Ted Haggard's exposure, the community was calling on folks to donate funds to Mike Jones, the man who exposed the evangelist of hate as a closeted, a crystal meth user.

I was a bit confused. If we are to believe Jones, he was not a regular dealer of crystal. So, It's not like his telling the truth about Haggard cost him much. And, as I predicted the same day the story broke, Jones inked a book deal soon after going public. Not bad for a man who helped fuel the gay community's meth problem.

While I love exposing hypocrites (it's what I do at my blog, blogACTIVE.cvom) and am thrilled Jones did what he did, his actions had little, if anything, to do with the Democrats taking Congress. To find the start of the Republican decline one need look no further than the date that Lane Hudson posted the first set of Mark Foley emails on his blog, Sunday, September 24.

More on this American hero after the jump...

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 8:45 AM PST

2006/10/31 · 08:45

What a political season it's been. In addition to watching the Democrats finally getting some traction in the national political debate, it appears we are headed for a big victory in one week.

BlogACTIVE visitors have supported the site's work on reporting about right wing closeted members of congress. And we're not done. There are plenty more of these jokers to expose after the election, too. And, as the media covers more and more of this, it's clear we're having an effect. (Click for clips from O'Reilly, Tucker and Nancy Grace.)

Over the past two years, we've seen this topic, one that radio and TV hosts avoided like the plague to one that is now affecting the right:

More after the jump, including info about the commercial being released later today.
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The DCCC FINALLY starting to fight back

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 11:27 AM PDT

2006/10/02 · 11:27

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, before the Foley story broke to let him know about Foley (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn't, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention... There are others within reach... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans. Read More

So who is this (anti-gay closet case) NRSC spokesman, Brian Walton?

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 6:16 AM PDT

2006/08/01 · 06:16

So... The National Republican Senatorial Committee is back out with the same old tricks. This time, they're using resources to attack DailyKos diarists.

So just who is the man responsible for this?:

Brian Walton, that's who. And get this... he's yet another closet case working for an anti-gay organization.

For more information and to send Walton and his anti-gay friends an email, visit the full post entry here.

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KKK publishes web-page on anti-gay US Rep. Marilyn Musgrave

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Monday May 22, 2006 · 9:21 AM PDT

2006/05/22 · 09:21

She's at it again... Marilyn Musgrave, the darling of the radical right who first introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment. Seems that politics indeed to make the strangest bedfellows:

KKK publishes web-page on anti-gay US Rep. Marilyn Musgrave
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The Knights Party, an Arkansas based affiliate of the Ku Klux Klan, has posted a web page in support of a bill [on homeschooling] introduced by U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado), PageOneQ has learned. The report first appeared in ROLL CALL a newspaper serving Washington, DC's Capitol Hill.

Musgrave, of course, is not exactly a favorite of the gay community:

In addition to sponsoring the same bill in the 108th Congress, Musgrave also was the sponsor of an amendment to the US Constitution which would, if enacted, deny marriage equality to same-sex couples. In the 109th Congress, Musgrave has not sponsored or co-sponsored a similar proposal, the Marriage Protection Amendment (HJ 39).

Read the full story here
See the archived page about Musgrave on the KKK site here.

John Bolton's Anti-Gay Spokesman is Gay

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 11:36 AM PDT

2006/04/24 · 11:36

Remember when The United States voted with Iran and Sudan to ban gay and lesbian organizations from even applying for observer status at the United Nations? [Raw Story: U.S. sides with Iran, Sudan to bar gay groups from UN]

The spokesman who defended the action by the United States is a gay man, Richard Grenell.

Grenell has been awarded BLOGACTIVE's Roy Cohn Award. I've got the story and Grenell's Roy Cohn Award posted here.

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