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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:06 PM
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Anti-gay Republicans launch phone spam drive in California
I just got a recorded phone call -- on my cell phone no less -- from Senator Dennis Hollingsworth California Republican about same sex marriage.

Hollingsworth is spearheading the drive to ban same-sex marriage. His recorded phone call claimed that violent gay militants are preventing people from getting signatures on petitions that will "protect" marriage -- and he is asking the people getting the calls to request one by mail so they can make sure marriage is between one man and one woman.

Apparently, he has your address on file too, because I pressed "1" as instructed, expecting to talk to someone or at least be able to leave a recorded message where I could tell them to go fuck themselves. All it said was Thank You, a petition will be mailed to you.

Even better, I will return the envelope with some literature about why same-sex marriage is necessary or perhaps I'll send a copy of this:

STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA


* Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

* Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was charged with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child.

* Republican prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was arrested for soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an "assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's attorney general.

* Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.

* Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls under the age of 16.

* Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of fondling underage girls.

* Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.

* Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.

* Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.

* Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year period.

* Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.

* Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.

* Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

* Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

* Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

* Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

* Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.

* Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.

* Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

* Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

* Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.

* Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

* Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.

* Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

* Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same charge.

* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

* Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer.

* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

* Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

* Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

* Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.

* Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

* Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

* Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here and his full report here.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:10 PM
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1. violent gay militants ?????
AL-Gayda? :woohoo: :hi: :hi:


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:
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alstephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:12 PM
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3. Ha! That's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
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Pushed To The Left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 10:48 PM
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9. Too funny. I've been volunteering for Equality For All to help counter the petitioners, but
I don't recall any of the people I've volunteered with being "violent militants"!
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:11 PM
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2. I doubt you'll get many Obama supporters posting here
Because most of them are Republicans, but I figure it's worth a kick. Good job!

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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:16 PM
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4. Right.
You've found us all out. All 90% of the people in GDP are Republican trolls. We're so busted. :eyes:
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:31 PM
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7. I didn't say 90 percent
51 percent.

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kdpeters Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:12 PM
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11. I love how some of the Hillfolks try to play the gay card against other gays
Don't you believe it, XemaSab. There is substantial GLBT support for Obama, yet some of these folks lump us in with homophobes and Republicans, call us Kool-aid swillers and cult followers and then complain about how their GLBT viewpoints are being disrespected.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:37 PM
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12. All my gay friends are for Obama.
Except Greg, who's probably going to vote for Nader. :P
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 07:53 AM
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14. And how exactly are you figuring this?
I'm curious.
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Irishonly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:19 PM
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5. I Wonder If He Is Talking About Sane People
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to sign the petition and gave the signer my reasons for not signing it in no uncertain terms albeit I wasn't yelling. For a brief period she couldn't get anyone to sign it. Now they resort to mail because the petition signing was going no where or at least in my area. IMHO it's sane people refusing to sign the hateful thing.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:27 PM
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6. an activist group IS challenging these petition gatherers at stores, but I doubt they are violent ->
the big issue is that petition gatherers (aka political equivalents to prostitutes) get paid by the signature, so if they do NOT get signatures, their income goes down. they do not give damn about the subject matter of the petition, but they DO give a damn if they are losing money. I can see some of these people getting kinda violent

Msongs
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:45 PM
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8. I wonder if they're using the Massachusetts tactic
In Mass. a few years ago, there was a petition against same-sex marriage. The petition gatherers were showing people a petition to save horses from being euthanized. However, when the person went to sign, the gatherer would flip to a page that was actually a petition against same-sex marriage, and many people unwittingly signed.

I hope the California pro-same sex marriage crowd is going to set up a web site to publish the names and addresses of everyone who signs these vile petitions. If I have a right to know whether a child molester lives next door to me, I have a right to know if a right-wing bigot lives next door to me.
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Pushed To The Left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 10:57 PM
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10. Sounds like the right wing is getting desperate out here!
Looks like the counter-petitioning is paying off! It's funny how they are calling the activists "violent gay militants". Nobody I have volunteered with comes even close to that description!
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jtalle Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 02:40 AM
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13. Re: Anti-gay Republicans Phone Scam
I did some digging, particularly on Knight's website, and noticed that today, April 8th and the day I also received the robotic voice of Dennis Hollingsworth, is the date that any petitions have to be turned in or postmarked.

<http://www.protectmarriage.com/index.php>

That's to say if they were going to send you a petition, it wouldn't matter.

Why would they do this, then?

What I think is that if someone pressed '1', then that name and address would be automatically put onto the petition, and rather illegally, at that. They were close to their goal, but didn't have enough to submit the petition.

The reason they'd do that is so that they could have enough petition 'signatures' so that they could turn in the petition results for tabulation. They'll have the 'good' signatures and the phone generated 'bad signatures' will be the ones discarded.

I'm just glad that I didn't request a petition.

Whatever happened to 'Thou Shalt Not Steal'?
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 12:02 PM
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15. Holy Crap
I never thought of that. If I find out they've done that, I will sue them.
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