I am sure there is much pearl-clutching with LG right now…
Poor L. Cory Gardner.
Is there a less or more (I can’t decide which) open secret in all of the country?
I wonder if this is what Trump has on him.
Washington Examiner reporter fired after she was videoed taking a picture of herself with a power drill in the middle of the protests. She stopped her car, asked a guy boarding up his windows to let her pose with it, then she drove away.
This is nothing more than what Trump does, “… many people say…”
Trying to smear someone with innuendo.
Even if true, so what? Being homosexual is not a bad thing, and it does not and should not disqualify someone from holding public office. Even being a closeted homosexual shouldnt disqualify someone. Even being a closeted hypocritical self hating homosexual.
Lindsey Graham has done and said enough things in his public life to vilify him with. Using salacious gossip about his personal life is unnecessary and uncool.
mc
Well lets just see how this all pans out, and then we’ll know how Trumpies feel about LG being a fuckin’ queer.*
*Their words not mine.
As you pointed out yourself, it’s not a bad thing to be gay, so how is the gossip “salacious” if it’s true? As I said before, this is the worst kept secret in all of Washington.
Too bad politics now requires a public figure’s private life to become far more public. Maybe people should have thought of that before they dragged Gary Hart and Bill Clinton through the muck. Too late to undo that Pandora’s Box, though.
I think you’re missing the point. Graham being gay would be no big deal at all – except he’s a champion of anti-gay legislation. That makes him a serious phony and a hypocrite. And that is worth pointing out, especially among his gay constituents who suffer for his internal conflicts.
I agree with you that there’s no shortage of other equally hypocritical aspects of Mr. Graham’s time as a legislator that could – and are frequently – seized upon. But I think this one hits the gay community in his state particularly hard.
The Texas governor has asked her and another Pub chair to resign.
Aspenglow, I think you’re a little confused about the definition of salacious:
having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.[/]
and are you telling me that no black legislator ever voted against civil rights or a rich one voted against tax cuts or a woman voted against equal rights. Any legislator ought to be able to vote for what they believe is in the best interests of their constituency regardless of their own personal situation.
But this isnt even what I’m talking about. The man(?) in the article isn’t revealing something about the personal life of a Senator. He’s intimating that he has information that he’s “heard” from sex workers and asking publicly if anyone would like to join him in this outing. It’s like if I said that I have heard from dozens of laundry workers that a poster on the SDMB (with the initials AG) likes to shit in her pants and then post on the mb about others who do it. anyone else heard this and brave enough to join me?
It’s garbage, plain and simple.
mc
dupe
mc
You’re not clearing this up for me much. How is it an undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters if those are at the heart of the concerns for gay people in SC? I assume you’re referencing the people who are pointing out the hypocrisy, and not Mr. LG?
These are not like situations. A black legislator is not pretending to be white. A rich legislator is not pretending to be poor. And a woman is not pretending to be a man or other-gendered. They are voting how they vote and if asked, they can explain their reasons for voting in a way that might appear contrary to their individual interests. No one gets to ask Mr. LG why he is voting against what might appear contrary to his individual interests, because he may be pretending to be something he is not.
Whether Ms. AG shits her pants is a verifiable thing, although perhaps not an easy one to prove – just as whether Mr. LG is gay is a verifiable thing, though perhaps not an easy one to prove. Further, the impression I have from what the porn star posted is that he himself has direct knowledge of the Senator’s proclivities. He is asking for others to also be willing to speak out, understanding that his word alone is not sufficient.
In general I am not in favor of outing people. It is a private matter and should be respected. And I take your point about legislators voting contrary to their own personal interests in favor of those in the best interests of their constituents.
But this isn’t that. If someone is in a public position of authority, in charge to one degree or another for making policy that many others must live with, then I think their sexual orientation becomes germane if sexual orientation is at issue in the policy-making. Are you seriously going to argue that repressing gay people is in the best interests of any constituency? Especially if one is also gay oneself, and pretending to a different standard? I can think of few things more damaging or galling to the LBGTQ community, and I can understand their preoccupation and anger over this breathtaking hypocrisy.
Putting in his bid for the “How Low Can You Go” Award, Washington GOP candidate Tim Eyman says Washington Governor Jay Inslee has his “knee on the neck” of businesses by imposing restrictions intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to his Republican gubernatorial opponent.
Eyman is a shithead who’s basically made a living, for the past 20 years or more, out of promoting anti-tax ballot referenda, which usually wind up passing thanks to rural voters. Thanks to him, every single time we have an election in this state, there are five or six non-binding “advisory votes” about taxes passed by the legislature which we have to vote on even though the legislature always ignores them. His most recent referendum, which will hopefully be struck down just like it was the last time he got it passed, caps car tab renewals at $30, which will pretty much make it impossible for us to repair our highways and bridges or maintain public transit.
And that’s to say nothing of the fact that he has a record of extravagant spending despite claiming to be bankrupt and nearly got jailed last year for stealing a chair from Office Depot.
After Eyman stormed out of a public meeting with Inslee early this year, Inslee called after him, “Please leave the chair!” https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Gov-Inslee-to-Tim-Eyman-Don-t-steal-that-chair-14963272.php
Those which pass are frequently struck down for flaws that would be obvious to a first-year law student, such as making multiple unrelated changes under a single header (not allowed in the SoW). At least one measure which was thrown out in that manner after passage was rewritten and resubmitted, passed again, and was thrown out again for the same violations that doomed its predecessor.
If I were not so full of the milk of human kindness I might suspect him of doing this deliberately, since all of his campaigns feature a massive fundraising effort to hoax the yokels into sending large amounts of money — some of which, through circuitous paths never well explained, ends up in “I-man”'s personal account. Beats hell out of hawking fraternity watches, which was his previous career.
Perhaps we should have an entire thread devoted to the Republican’s favorite phantasm.
*Mythical buses full of bloodthirsty antifa protestors are causing panic in rural counties throughout the country … (there have been) at least five separate rural counties where locals have warned of imminent attacks, although none of the rumors have been substantiated.
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In Forks, Washington, a multi-racial family of four was harassed by armed locals, who believed they represented an antifa incursion. The family had arrived in town on a camping trip, traveling in a full-sized school bus. Local police say they were confronted by “seven or eight carloads” of people, who aggressively questioned them about their antifa connections. When the family attempted to drive off, locals felled trees across the roadway to prevent them from escaping. They were only able to leave after a group of students intervened.
… On Wednesday, an Idaho fleet services business was targeted by a minor panic, after a debunked rumor claimed incoming agitators were targeting the state. One local posted a picture of his bus on Facebook as evidence …*
Does anyone know where I can invest in whole-cloth futures?
Wow…I would have thought it a lot harder to fell trees and drag them across the road to block access. They must have been moving very quickly.
Following the [del]rabbit hole[/del] links in the thread about the [del]incident[/del] crime in Forks, I’d have to say the sheriff’s office is missing a golden opportunity. They’re calling on the community to turn in the “good ol’ boys” who obviously hate Blacks. Those GOBs didn’t just wake up one morning and say, “Hey, let’s kidnap and terrorize some Black folk”. Nope, this is probably one thing those idiots came by honestly.
What the top cop should do is announce that the sheriff’s office wants to reward those individuals who stepped up to protect the locals, please come in and we’ll give you the reward.
Then when the jackasses show up, arrest them and charge them with kidnapping and making terroristic threats, not to mention denying someone their civil liberties.
Ah, it’s nice to dream, isn’t it?