The gay Republicans go ga-ga over Rudy Giuliani. With their green, at least.
Using the super scientific technology of Huffington Post’s Fundrace, Thomas Edsall found that the majority of Log Cabin dough goes to Giuliani:
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani beats all his Republican competitors hands down for contributions from prominent gay Republicans.
A survey of 34 members of the board of the Log Cabin Republicans and the organization’s New York and California chapters shows seven contributions totaling $9,700 going to Giuliani, according to Huffington Post’s Fundrace.
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One person listed on the Log Cabin’s National Board, Troup Coronado, is listed as giving $750 to John Edwards, a Democrat. A spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans said Coronado is no longer on the board.Only two other contributions from the Log Cabin officials surveyed were made to Republican presidential candidates: $3,000 to Romney and $2,300 to former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, who has since withdrawn from the contest.
There’s some angry queen out there, we’re sure.
We wonder whether the Log Cabinintes will rethink their politics now that Giuliani allegedly told Family Research Council president Tony Perkins if forced, he would support ban on gay marriage.
[Family Research Council president Tony] Perkins said Giuliani told him in a private meeting that if the Defense of Marriage Act appeared to be failing or if multiple states began to legalize same-sex marriages, then he would support the constitutional amendment.
Giuliani did not mention the amendment or the issue of gay marriage during his address to the Values Voters Summit, but that position could win him favor with some social conservatives who view the former mayor warily.
Perkins said that was not enough to assuage his concerns about Giuliani, but “it was nice to hear.
Remember what Log Cabin leader Patrick Sammon said about the fight for marriage? Obviously Giuliani’s not a loyal soldier.
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Could it be the Log Cabin Republicans will have to vote – shudder – Democrat? They sure as shit won’t be voting for Romney.
Update: Huffington Post also unearthed this NY Times article from August 4, 2001. It describes then mayor Giuliani’s gay-marriage loving ways:
The mayor’s progressive record on gay civil rights notwithstanding, he has not endorsed same-sex marriage. But, says Mr. Koeppel, ”He did tell us that if they ever legalized gay marriages, we would be the first one he would do.” Mr. Koeppel and Mr. Hsiao are in favor of the right to marry — which, among other things, would give gay couples the same protections as heterosexual couples in legal and fiscal matters ranging from immigration and adoption rights to veterans’ and Social Security benefits.
Could it be Giuliani changed positions for Perkins or did Perkins like to The Hill in an attempt to foil Giuliani? Whatever’s going on, someone’s getting fucked.
Leland Frances
Even if he didn’t say it, there’s plenty of reasons for every self-respecting gay man and woman to oppose Giuliani as much as any Repug.
One of his PAID advisors is former Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle who’s said that “amending Iowa’s constitution to ban gay marriage is a quality of life issue…[an important] signal we send our kids.†Nussle also wants the US Constitution amended to ban gay marriage.
Giuliani has condemned New Hampshire’s domestic partnership law saying it’s “too much like marriage.†You don’t hear any Dem doing that. They aggressively support domestic partnerships and federal benefits for same gender relationships.
Hillary knows she was wrong to vote to authorize the Iraq invasion, and other Dems oppose it, too, but Giuliani has a hard on to continue that AND invade Iran. And he’s shamefully claimed that electing ANY Dem President would ipso facto result in Americans being killed. But what can you expect from someone who rimmed homo demonizer George Bush with public praise at the 2000 and 2004 Repug conventions?
As mayor, he never worked to see that New York would, like San Francisco, implement a contracting law that would require companies doing business with it to provide domestic partner benefits to their employees and also provides civil rights and workplace protections to transgendered persons.
In 1989 as candidate for Mayor, Giuliani criticized Mayor Koch’s plan to offer bereavement leave to gay city employees, calling it (through a spokesperson) “an ill-conceived political giveaway.â€
In 1993, he opposed Mayor Dinkins’ ban on travel by city employees to Colorado, imposed because of a boycott to the state’s antigay ballot initiative.
Soon after becoming Mayor in 1994, Giuliani supported Ruben Diaz, who sat on the Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, who wrote a homophobic and AIDS-phobic column about the upcoming Gay Games being held in the city. The Mayor was quoted as saying, “I don’t condemn him†and said Diaz’s views reflected “a couple of thousand years of moral theology.â€
Soon after becoming Mayor, Giuliani eliminated the Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns as well as liaison offices to other communities.
Giuliani opposed the inclusion of lesbians and gay in multicultural curriculum.
He appointed openly homophobic Irene Impellizzeri to the Board of Education and appointed AIDS-phobic board member Ninfa Segarra as Deputy Mayor.
Giuliani defended the use of force to control demonstrators marching in honor of slain Matthew Shepard, furthering a perception among a number of communities in New York that the NYPD was becoming increasingly independent under Giuliani.
All Dems support eliminating DADTDP. Rudy, like all Repugs, would keep it.
As for the Logheads, some 21-23% of voters self-identifying as gay voted Repug not just in 2000, not just in 2004, but in the 2006 midterms—six long years deep into their naked exploitation of homohatred for power. In short, what do you expect from gays who sold their souls to the junkman long ago?
Bill Perdue
Giuliani’s political two step polka, like Hillary’s and Osama’s, keeps him ‘allemanding’ to the right. â€One step forward; two, three, four steps to the right.â€
The Republicans are in deep trouble because George Bush is arguably the worst president in US history. His murderous oil war is increasingly unpopular and prone to failure. His veto of children health millions learned that his real motto is “No child left Standing’. Republicans are afraid to share a platform with him and squirming to distance themselves.
As der Gubernaor recently said “In movie terms, we are dying at the box office.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on the state of the Republican Party.
The only thing Republicans have going for them is the Democrats’ abject record of treachery. They promised to end the war and instead they fund it and support broadening it. They’re building permanent air naval and military bases and transforming the Green Zone into an immense colonial fortress. They arrogantly voted to order the Iraqis to divide their country and to turn over its oil assets to American companies. They’re for an attack on Iran. Following the treachery of DOMA and DADT their exclusion of transsexuals from all civil rights protections and pulling the teeth of ENDA are no surprise.
The repeated treachery of the Democrats is the best and only chance the Republicans have for winning.
A Republican politician is a baboon in a people suit with a totalitarian christian attached at the hip. A Democratic politician is a Republican in drag.
Leland Frances
Pay no attention to that wizened old queen behind the curtain. That’s just Comrade Perdue, the oldest living Fag for Stalin, still trying to shit stir the sane into not voting at all. “Bigots for Hillaryâ€â€”is that a registered PAC?
537 votes in 2000 changed History. Comrade Perdue has changed nothing save his adult diapers a couple of weeks ago.
Bill Perdue
Frances still dosent get it.
Hissy fits are not an acceptabe excuse for have reactionalry politics lFrances still doesn’t get it. Senescent hissy fits are not an acceptable substitute for trying to defend prowar Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton, the Heir Apparent, or the antiENDA politics of Frank/Pelosi.
Frances’ repeated attempts to gloss over the damage done to us by the Clintons DOMA and DADT is inexcusable.
He’s in a tiny minority with Sullivan and Aravosis, contemptible right wing apologists for bipartisan bigotry who bitterly oppose the united and firmly proENDA activist majority of the movement.
That explains his inevitable rightward movement, he’s ensnared just as surely as Hillary Clinton was when she took the cowards way out and voted for the invasion of Iraq, which she’s had to support at every turn.
Leland Frances
Poor Comrade Bill. Like anal warts he just keeps coming back.
He’s so busy sit-spinning on his own dildo of toxic hate and lies that he can’t keep them, er, straight. One minute he’s attacking Frank and Pelosi for not destroying ENDA by including transgenders then he says ENDA is a worthless bill to start with then he says they’re anti-ENDA and then he describes those with a terminal case of Mad Tranny Disease who are trying to kill job protections for gay men and women by killing ENDA of being “proENDAâ€â€”not to mention the redundancy of “activist majority of the movement.â€
Like all tin pot socialists, his first language is not English but Orwellian Newspeak.
War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength, Democrats = Republicans. Gays Without Job Protections Are Good.
Bob M
I was going to vote for him until he indicated that Rick Perry, the governor of Texas would be his possilbe VP. Perry is a Homophobe, A Bush lover (and successor in the governor’s chair of Texas) and a evangelical two faced-christian. Sorry Gulie, no vote from me as I wasn’t going to vote for Hillary either, but now who knows! It may be the choice between the lesser of two EVILS!!!!
ProfessorVP
I have no idea what Perdue said that was a lie or even inaccurate on this topic. I have always said that the problem is the Democratic Party, for having given up its adversarial role to keep the Republicans in check. Dems believe that to question the Republicans would look unpatriotic to the You-Just-Hate-Amurrica rubes, and they caved in on both social issues like giving LBGTs full citizenship rights, and the illegal and immoral but profitable adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only place I would differ with Perdue is that I’m not sure Hillary voted to authorize Bush to goose-step into Iraq because she was cowardly. I think Hillary thought Bush and Rummy would win the war and annex Iraq, which, of course, was the plan. Then how would it look in 2008 for Hillary? I have no evidence Hillary (as is with Bush) has any great knowledge
in the areas of world history or military matters.
I don’t think Hillary is a deep thinker, or, for that matter, a heavy reader. (She hadn’t even read the NIE before voting in 2002 for the invasion.) Whether it’s voting or taking a piss, she just does what her pollster/focus group says. To me, Giuliani stands for evil, whereas Hillary, like her errant hubby, stands for nothing.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Spot on, professor !!!!