When Dean Lovelace decided to begin his re-election campaign for Dayton City Commissioner, he didn’t realize that someone else in Ohio had purchased his old domain name deanlovelace.com. That someone else was activist David Lauri, a person not so happy with Lovelace’s history of voting against sexual orientation protections.
Revenge is a dish best served over the internet.
You see, in 1999 and 2007, Lovelace voted against a law that would have prohibited discrimination against LGBs. So Lauri took Lovelace’s old website and changed it into a full page ad of why people shouldn’t vote for Lovelace. Let’s look at some of the page’s cattier statements:
– If [Lovelace] can’t manage to keep his own campaign website running, why should we expect him to be competent at running a city?
– …if Commissioner Lovelace had had his way, Dayton would still be discussing whether it should be legal to fire someone for being gay or to refuse to rent to someone for being lesbian
– Dean Lovelace has been in office… 18 years! If [he] had any new ideas for this city, he’s already had plenty of time to implement them… anyone other than Dean Lovelace will be a better choice.
In response, Lovelace said, “I think [Lauri’s] a jerk. … I’ve not done anything to him, ever.” To which Lauri responded, “He has done something to me and every other gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender person in Dayton (through his votes).”
How about we take this to the next level?
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David Lauri, you just became our web geek boyfriend of the week.
Michael
An amazing piece of news and of course none of the bitchy queens on here comment.
slanty
@Michael: How can that be? You just commented, jackass.
Jim
Awesome move! Here’s the kicker: it’s totally legal.
NCNC
That is spectacular.
jack
Kudos to David Lauri !
Gay Veteran
Where are all the racist idiots at… you mean they didn’t bypass several articles about homophobic white men only to comment on the story about a black man? What? “Blacks are more homophobic than any other race.. I don’t have a way to back up my claim but I’ll keep spewing hatred until I die.”
TMikel
Huzzah!
randy
What’s funny is that Lovelace thinks that people shouldn’t verbally attack him unless he has “done” something to them. Uh — memo to Lovelace — when you are politician, people will attack your positions, votes and actions. And since the affect people, people will naturally take offense.
If he hasn’t learned that in 18 years as a pol, then he truly is a hack.
ewe
@Gay Veteran: your mirror.
Gay Veteran
@ewe: You’re beneath me.
Mark
@Michael: not all of us sit at the computer to read 24/7. Get a life and get a Midol.
TN
That………..is kind of awesome!!! Lovelace with his “not done anything to him, ever”??? Okay, really, it’s “never done anything to him”, and besides that doesn’t make sense, you run a city in which he lives in, so of course every decision you make have affected him. Second thought, why stretch out a line using weird syntax?? Yes, we’ve all done that, like to meet my term paper’s lower limit of 1000 word or to try to sound smarter. I doubt it’s the former, and if it’s the latter, damn, bitch is really stupid.