I went to YKos with the hopes of asking the presidential candidates who are currently in the Senate a simple question:
If you are really for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, why haven't you introduced a bill to repeal the law and will you commit to doing so in the next sixty days?"
The most surprising non-answer came from a non candidate...Ned Lamont. He calls himself progressive?
I made my rounds of the presidential breakout sessions. Covering the convention for my news site, PageOneQ, made it possible for me to float around to a number of them.
Didn't get a chance to ask a question of Hillary. (Neither did too many others. She managed to filibuster answers so she only took four questions during the hour-long session.) One questioner did mention Don't Ask Don't Tell, but he let Hillary off the hook by stating she supported it in the preamble to another question. Oh Well.
I also managed to make it to the Dodd session. Here's what's interesting. Forget that Dodd would not answer my question. Ned Lamont, there with Dodd, did.
I had to rephrase the question, as Lamont is not a member of the Senate:
Ned, If you are really for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, would you have introduced a bill in favor of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Despite my standing directly in front of Ned, I got no response. So I tried a different tactic:
Ned, can you tell me, if you were in the senate would you at least co-sponsor or pledge to vote for a law that repealed the ban on lesbian and gay servicemembers?
"I just don't know," he replied.
Some progressive.