How do gay Democrats choose between two candidates who have not made gay rights a priority?
Full disclosure: I work for La Plaza at WGBH. But I thought you would all be interested to see our recent video blog interview with former state senator Jarrett Barrios. We asked him how he, as a married gay man, decided which candidate to support.
http://lp.thecolorline.org/pos…
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Okay, I confess I read this site, usually as an RSS feed, from work. But I never play the videos.
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p>So maybe it’s just me, but I’d love it if you’d just give a quick recap of what he said, instead of just a teaser.
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p>I realize it’s more work for the poster, and I appreciate that they posted this at all.
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p>What do other people think?
How’s that? 😉
Former Sen. Barrios is certainly within his rights to endorse a candidate…but might it not have been important for either he or La Plaza/WGBH to give full disclosure that his spouse, Doug Hattaway, is a spokesman for the Clinton campaign?
Hattaway is quoted today in UrinalGate (if you haven’t heard, the Clinton campaign set up reporters at a Texas event in a men’s room — they apparently had been told it was a locker room).
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p>LOL!!
It’s terrifically sad and says ill of this election. Barrios has to look for coded symbols and messages. He says up front neither Obama nor Clinton has the guts (my word) to address GLBT issues or civil rights at all.
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p>So, his solution is to try to feel the tone of their statements on other issues to project. Moreover, he looks at Hillary’s voting record to say she seems to have a better rights history.
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p>Again, how sad. It does not bode well that the leader of the supposedly liberal party would use coded messages to say he or she is for civil rights. Where’s our champion?
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p>Cues, indeed!