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From: Marvin The Paranoid Android
Date: 11/17/2004 3:41 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <jNGmd.26043$Ho4.1081204@news20.bellglobal.com>
Ernst Rhoem was homosexual too but he did his job well ... gotta love
the parallels between these two regimes.
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http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=426
‘Gay’ Bush campaign chair to join openly gay chief financial officer at
helm of GOP
By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor
‘Gay’ Bush-Cheney campaign chair Ken Mehlman is all but certain to
become chairman of the Republican National Committee, a source close to
the White House told United Press International Sunday.
Mehlman, who has long been rumored to be gay and whose party put
pressure on two New York newspapers during the Republican National
Convention to kill stories questioning the single 38-year-old’s
sexuality, will succeed Ed Gillespie.
Two additional sources who had been in contact with blogACTIVE.com,
which outed Rep. Ed Schrock and Rep. David Dreier, retracted their
statements about Mehlman after saying they received calls from press
officers at the Party.
Mehlman will join two other top Republicans who are openly gay: the
Chief Financial Officer of the Republican Party Jay Banning, and the
party’s number two political director and National Field Director Daniel
Gurley. Both confirmed that they were gay and refused to answer
questions about the party’s positions on gay marriage in telephone calls
published by RAW STORY in September.
Mr. Mehlman must be approved for the post by an RNC vote, which is
considered a mere formality once the president officially taps him for
the post. He has strong ties to Bush adviser Karl Rove, the man
President Bush has called “the architect” of his Nov. 2 victory.
When asked if he was gay last week, Mehlman hung up the phone. Deputy
communications director Steve Schmidt, reached by telephone, asserted
that Mehlman was not gay but refused to say so on the record.
Banning, who is out at work, has been CFO for the Republican Party since
1983. While collecting nearly $300 million in the 2004 election cycle
for the most explicitly anti-gay platform the party has held in history,
said he has no problem with spending tens of millions of dollars to
restrict the rights of a group he’s part of.
“I don’t seem to have a problem with it,” Banning said in September.
“I’m not in the policy area.”
Queried further, he remarked, “I don’t make the policy.”
Gurley, meanwhile, said he would not speak about anti-gay marriage
flyers the party admitted mailing in the South. As National Field
Director, he would have a hand in political mailings.
He did, however, intimate that he might not agree with some of the
party’s tenets.
“I, like anyone else, have policy disagreements with any number of
elected officials,” Gurley said. “I don’t expect to agree with
everything that everybody says.”
Did that have anything to do with Ed Mac
mayon?
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all universes constantly and at random.
Oh Joy!
Tom
The Psychedelic Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
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