Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hopped over to Los Angeles this weekend for a little gay-friendly fund raising.
The jet-setting senator from New York certainly kept herself busy as she popped into the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a fund raiser at the Biltmore Hotel and the LGBT center, the last two of which were both sponsored by Yashar Hedayat, the LGBT chair of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. The final event drew the likes of Marisa Tomei, Patricia Wettig of Brothers & Sisters, as well as queer crooner Todd Murray and out actor David Marshall Grant.
No doubt Clinton’s pleased with the results of her cross country trip: the politico reportedly raked in $200,000 for her campaign. She also apparently got a bit snippy with a sassy voter:
…There was only one somewhat rude question by a young man who said Clinton sounded scripted. Apparently she “schooled” the questioner, suggesting that the he try giving 10 speeches a day. When the cheers died down, she added, “And that wasn’t scripted.”
Girl knows how to keep those boys in check, huh?
rock
and she still is scripted….plus, she still is against same sex marriage and she and Bill did more harm to the GLBT community by enacting DOMA..which she still supports and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which she claims should be repealed..but actions speak louder then words and in Hillary’s 7 years in the United States Senate she never sponsored legislation to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”..so to me she is good as her word or as good as the scripted speeches she reads from, which is zilch, nada and less then nothing…we can rank her right up there with John Edwards in his lack of support for same sex marriage.
If Hillary is giving 10 speeches a day, you would think she would get it down pat so it sounds natural and doesn’t sound scripted….and that’s not scripted!
Gregg
right on rock! I completely agree with you. Hillary is a waste of gay time, energy and money.
mikeoutwest
Hilary has absolutely done a lot for the gays, both on the floor and behind the scenes. Yes, DOMA and DADT were/are shitshows, but neither were enacted during her time in the Senate and it’s not fair to blame her for Bill’s sins. Besides, with even a little political acumen, you’d know that the last 7 years haven’t been the best time to sponsor legislation to repeal either. Clearly Hilary is very supportive of gay rights, but that’s not a obviously platform that’s going to get her to the White House.
Bryan
If I was giving the same stump speech 10 times a day for 2 years I would blow my brains out.
TravisMT81
sometimes you cannot make anyone happy?
Paul Raposo
Why is the gay community still allowing ourselves to be hit up by a Clinton? Might as well take that 200k and throw it down the drain because all it will do is help She-Clinton advance her own agenda and that of the DNC, which does not include squat for the LGBTQ community. The only people who still believe the Clinton’s give a shit about us are straight white liberals and that’s why they keep on coming sniffing around us–we give them “liberal” cred.
neruda
What i remember is the Clinton’s having their asses handed to them when they tried to lift the ban on gays serving in the military.
DOMA was a bargain with the devil to stop the passage of the anti-gay marriage amendment.
I dont defent everything they do or say but its not just to bash them for not accomplishing what was simply impossible at the time.
Instead of expecting our politicians to be martyrs who accomplish nothing, lets remember this is American where putting anti-gay marriage initiatives on the ballot during a national election is an effective way to get out voters. This is America where state after state passed anti-gay marriage amendments. This is America where a majority has, until recently, considered our relationships to be on par with bestiality and paedophelia.
What I give Bill Clinton credit for is daring to make our rights part of a national agenda. Don’t forget we had come out of 16 years of regressive Republicans like Reagan -happy to sit idly while so many died – and Bush – who would not even acknowledge our existence.