Poor Cooch is not feeling the love

I don’t know which is worse: Being a cold, cynical exploiter of the wedge issue du jour and throwing bloody meat to whichever bloc of voters is momentarily driven by the most mindless hate, or being genuinely driven by one’s own mindless hate. It’s a difficult question, hinted at today by Marc Fisher.
Cuccinelli — […]

VA lawmakers invited to “check a box”

Well-run businesses don’t discriminate against their employees on the basis of irrelevant characteristics. That’s why former Governor Mark Warner signed an executive order at the end of his term in 2005, prohibiting discrimination in state hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. In addition, the Governor added similar language to that year’s budget, language that […]

Extreme pettiness, caught on video

Ah, the wonders of YouTube.
See Delegate Mark Cole. See Delegate Mark Cole make a motion on the House floor to remove Delegate Jennifer McClellan’s resolution commending the Richmond Gay Community Foundation from a block of uncontested resolutions - apparently in hopes of defeating it. (That didn’t happen. It passed the House anyway, and now […]

Virginia just says no

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Governor Tim Kaine has eliminated state funding for federally mandated “abstinence-only” programs; Virginia now joins 13 other states that have rejected this kind of fake sexuality “education.” The premise here shouldn’t be hard to understand; if we’re going to spend public money on an educational program, that program […]

More campaign gay-baiting…

Another update: Hat tip to Blueweeds for coining a new term to describe this behavior, characteristic of those stuck in a by-gone era in which it was still effective: gay-boating.
Update: Washington Blade coverage here.
This time, from Senator Jay O’Brien in Fairfax. This pathetic behavior follows on the heels of an earlier “round of dubious campaigning” […]

Another ugly election season is upon us

The Washington Blade weighs in with an article about recent gay-baiting campaign tactics in Virginia and a bipartisan call to cut it out, co-signed by Equality Virginia, Log Cabin Republicans and Virginia Partisans.
The article is primarily about the push poll calls attributed to the Lynn Chapman campaign, insinuating that Delegate David Poisson is “a closet […]

Who really wants to make public policy, Lynn Chapman…or Susie Chapman?

Loudoun Insider over at Too Conservative has taken the ironic position that candidates’ family members should be generally off-limits to scrutiny. This seems like a good guideline. But what should happen when a candidate’s spouse has been more involved in public policy debate than the candidate?
For most of those discussing the offensive push poll attributed […]

Lest we forget

Best. Quote. Ever.
On the ill-advised and cruel conspiracy to interfere with Gay/Straight Alliances, and its attendant repulsive rhetoric:
I don’t think there are “groups in state-supported schools who define themselves by what they do with their genitals.” I think there are groups that protect people from those who define themselves by what they do with their […]

Into the muck

The fact that anyone - a candidate, someone acting on behalf of a candidate, someone attempting to smear a candidate, it doesn’t really matter - would ask a polling question like this: “Would your vote for Delegate be affected if you knew that Delegate [insert opponent’s name here] is a closet homosexual?” is a very […]

Slow learners

It’s widely accepted that the defeat of former delegate Dick Black, considered the most anti-gay member of the General Assembly before his involuntary 2005 “retirement,” was largely due to voter impatience with his obsessive focus on sexually oriented social issues. That’s why the bloggers at Too Conservative were hopeful that the Republican challenger in the […]

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