Anti-gay Houston official threatens to recall lesbian mayor if nondiscrimination bill passes

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/25/anti-gay-houston-official-threatens-to-recall-lesbian-mayor-if-nondiscrimination-bill-passes/
Anti-gay Houston official threatens to recall lesbian mayor if nondiscrimination bill passes
By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Anti-gay activist and Houston Community College Board of Trustees member Dave Wilson (R) is threatening to recall Houston mayor Mayor Annise Parker (D) and any city council members who vote in favor of an ordinance that would outlaw discrimination on the basis of gender identity and discrimination.

Wilson is best known nationally for winning his spot on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees by misleading voters into believing that he is an African-American. He filled his fliers with black faces pulled from stock photography websites and claimed to be endorsed by Ron Wilson, an African-American former state representative — when, in fact, he was endorsed by his cousin, who also happened to be named “Ron Wilson.”

Of the eight largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Houston is the only one without these nondiscrimination protections. But according to Wilson, the equal rights ordinance is “absurd, it’s unheard of.” He also claimed that the ordinance is “pure payback for the mayor. She’s paying back her core constituents that support her.”

Wilson noted that the city’s charter allows for elected officials to be recalled on the grounds of incompetence, misconduct, malfeasance or unfitness for office, and claimed that voting for this “absurd” nondiscrimination ordinance would compel him and his supporters to believe the mayor “to be incompetent.” MORE at link.

[rocktivity]

1. If they don't recall HIM first!

rocktivity

[Amimnoch]

2. "Paying back her core constituents that support her."????

Leave it to a Republican idiot that doesn't know the difference between performing paid for political favors (you know, that things that the Republicans are famous for doing for their lobby and corporate masters), and someone who's elected who's doing exactly what she was elected for.. by the electoriate that elected her.

She's not "paying them back", she's doing what she was elected to do. Can Wilson say the same? The man who was elected by completely misrepresenting himself and his positions? Can he say that his actions are in line what those who elected him to office want?? Oh wait, he can say he's doing what his financial backers (NOM and focus ont he family) are wanting him to do... isn't THAT more of a "pay back" than someone who's doing what the peope who elected her to do?

Fine Wilson, you do your recall, and throw yourself onto that recall list.. Ms. Anise and her supporters will likely survive it just fine, as she is quite popular You, on the other hand, will likely be booted out on your arse.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Ridiculous isn't it?

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She follows through on the platform her constituents wanted and that's supposed to be wrong?

[joeybee12]

4. I say go for it, you douchebag...usually recall efforts by fringe lunatics

backfire and make the target of their ire even more popular and stronger.

[theHandpuppet]

5. How much local support does this nutter actually have?

Or is he just one of those kooks that gets media attention for being the local freak show?

[joeybee12]

6. Idiots like him think everyone agrees with him...

There's no reasoning with such fools...