Dean fires Dems' gay outreach chief,Shakeup follows criticism by partner

[seriousstan]

Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party's gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take stronger action to defend gays.

Bond served from 1996 to 2003 as executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a bipartisan national group that raises money and provides training to help elect openly gay candidates to public office.

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"This is retaliation, plain and simple," said Yandura. "This shows what they think about domestic partners."


Yandura said Tuesday night that Dean was using Hitchcock as a "scapegoat" for problems of Dean's own making.

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[brentspeak]

1. dupe

[seriousstan]

2. give me a link, I can't find the other post.

Thanks

[populistdriven]

3. Howard has my full support, this is why we wanted him there to begin with

Because we knew we could trust him to make the right decisions even when we don't know all the facts ourselves.

You / I / We don't know all the facts.

Keep your eyes focused on the goal.

06

[Southsideirish]

8. Amen! Howard I know and trust - I never heard of these other two. nt

[stepnw1f]

4. gossip, gossip, gossip, gossip

Don't pay attention to the real news. Lets dramatize an incident.

[JNelson6563]

5. More bullshit from within.

Oy.

[fightingdem]

6. Sorry, there's more going on here.

Knowing the character of Dean, my inclination is to suspect that Hitchcock is probably some kind of narcissistic asshole who thinks he god's gift to mankind. I don't KNOW that, of course, just a suspicion. I've been pretty active in the liberal and progressive community for the last few years and sadly, though the majority of people I've met have been great, there have been a few who are complete jerks.

Does anyone who's been a part of the GLBT for Dean during the campaign or are a part of the current DFA think that this is the kind of guy Dean is?

[mondo joe]

7. I'm tentatively fine with this.

I've worked in enough offices to know there are things that go on behind (and even under!) the scenes.

My inclination is to trust Howard.