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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:16 PM Original message |
Gavin Newsom is a HERO to many gays and lesbians and their straight allies |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. who's trashing Newsom? |
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jlake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, and I am adding this to the list of liberal values Obama is willing to |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. what are referencing? elaborate |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. who is trashing him? One DU'er? |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Really? read this thread |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. #1.It seems like there was some creative editing to try & make Obama look bad and #2.Bay Area DU'ers |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:45 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. I'm also from SF and I don't trust Newsom |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:31 PM Response to Reply #25 |
50. They had to bring in Bill Clinton to campaign for Newsom |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yet some are using him to trash another civil rights advocate. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. Huh? |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Here you go |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:21 PM Original message |
Get your "gays are the reason Bush won" thread of the day ... |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
19. What pisses me off about this shit.... |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. I wonder just how many slights we are supposed to take |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. You don't think him fucking his friends wife wasn't the issue? The man's name is mud now. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. If this was the first time, then OK, but it isn't |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. the event in question occurred BEFORE that happened |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. Which is why he was just overwhelmingly re-elected. |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:12 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. Of course no one in the Bay area cares, he could have done it in public and they wouldn't care |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:22 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Oh, so you've switched from "he's so unpopular" to "it's only because everyone in SF is immoral" |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #47 |
55. well I never said "he's so unpopular" ever. I said perhaps the wife fucking was an issue |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:44 PM Response to Reply #36 |
53. He was re-elected because Bay Area progressives did not mount |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:13 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. The courage I'm talking about is his historic move on same-sex marriages. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:57 AM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Yes, Gavin gets credit for doing that. n/t |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. I agree |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. I am bitterly disappointed to be honest. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
54. The stance of 0bama and many DUers is plain to me: we are to be ATMs for cash and votes, and |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. waiting to see if the donnie mcclurkin of DU shows up. |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Word. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. thanks ruggerson |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I really don't get what's wrong with some of these people |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. me either. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
45. Some of us have a fondness for the truth. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. Trashing his judgment does not equal trashing him |
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CyberPieHole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
18. Kick and Rec for Gavin Newsom... |
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Iceburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
20. He is to the GBLT community what MLK is to the AA community... |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'm with you, ruggerson. |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:38 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. thanks jd |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
23. Yes. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. Indeed he is! |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
26. He's a liar, a philanderer, a drunk, and a crypto-conservative. |
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democracyindanger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. You live in SF? |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. I did for many years and follow the politics closely still. |
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democracyindanger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:51 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Hmm. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. A crypto-conservative? |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. "Quality of Life" laws |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:09 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. No, that's right. In fact, he ran to the right of a real civil rights leader |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:26 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. uh....you really want to champion Gonzalez? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I've caught him red handed on more than one occasion. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:11 AM Response to Reply #51 |
57. Not only did you ignore some of my points... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #57 |
59. You really believe you are going to explain homelessness in San Francisco |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 01:53 AM Response to Reply #49 |
56. Cooked studies published in the chron w/ no methodology |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
27. Yes. |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
29. i saw that earlier, total bullshit but not unexpected and i'm really sorry. |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. We can't put him in the same category as some of the other heroes |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
33. Sorry to disappoint you, ruggerson. Gavin is not a civil rights leader. |
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stevietheman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
39. I'm gay and I think Newsom sucks |
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democracyindanger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. You don't think |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. I lived in Ohio at the time |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
46. Hear!hear! Some of us - still invested in civil rights fights |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
48. recommend |
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