Republican Senator Larry Craig, an equal participant in election bashing of gays and lesbians, pleaded guilty to lewd conduct in a public restroom in an attempt to solicit sex from an undercover male police officer.
Craig, an early supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has stepped down from his prominent position with the campaign, and is rethinking any attempt to run for re-election in 2008. Moreover, he is likely to be forced to resign his seat entirely by the Republican leadership in order to avoid a Mark Foley scandal all over again.
It is men like Senator Craig, Mark Foley,Ted Haggard, and all the other hypocritical hate mongers who consistently demonize men and women of the LGBT community as unequal and undeserving of balanced justice and protection under the law in order to get reelected, only to continue and be exposed as the liars that they truly are.
All of you give the good men and women of the gay and lesbian community a bad name. You stand behind your façade of conservatism and evangelical values and have the nerve to cast your judgment on the rest of America while you grapple internally with your own sexuality…shame on you! Judgment shall now be cast upon you.
It appears Dallas County Commissioner John Price thinks Chris Bell is looking good. Price was one of the first Democrats to endorse Carol Keeton Strayhorn for Governor, but now thinks, “the Strayhorn campaign has failed to pick up momentum. He now suggests that Mr. Bell has the best chance to beat Republican incumbent Rick Perry.”
Rick Perry receives a 2-star rating from Inc Magazine. The magazine says simply, “Some fine achievements are mitigated by mistakes, failures or oversights.”
The Perry campaign responded like any leader would, ““I don't know what they're smoking up there.”
Maybe the rotten score has something to do with Perry’s blind support for bad policy like coal plants. Tom Paine has a great write up on the coalitions opposing Perry’s express plan to pillage the entire state.
Van Taylor is becoming desperate and has started playing the race card to scare people. In the same ad, Taylor criticizes Chet Edwards for giving hungry people food. Interesting tactic...
All the way in DC, the House Ethics Committee is having a closed door session today on disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley. Texas has two members on the committee (one on each side of the aisle)—Republican Lamar Smith and Democrat Gene Green. Smith bought his seat for $10,000 to help protect his buddy Tom DeLay, and it will be interesting to see how our two Texans pursue policies to prevent this from happening again.
