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Our favorite post-Eyman post comes from Blatherwatch who asks, "What's a 'ho to do after she's given all her johns the clap?"
Clearly, though, the Eyman john with all the money is still horny for more.
The Stranger's Eli Sanders wonders if the pro-rights groups who tried diligently to separate Eyman's referendum from the gay-marriage issue didn't make a mistake.
The Olympian takes a broader view of Tuesday's flame-out by Eyman by looking beyond the initiative huckster toward the long-range electoral prospects of one of the favorite GOP bogey-man issues: equal marriage rights.
Take a virtual trip east on I-90 to see how that kind of thing is already playing out:
In Montana, a populist farmer-candidate, Jon Tester, handily beat out a Beltway favorite to win the Democratic nomination to run against the state's Abrimoff-soiled incumbent for US Senate. Through Sen. Elizabeth Dole, the national GOP machine's first instinct was to paint Tester as a "puppet of national liberal special-interest groups who does not share the mainstream values of Montanans."
Just what "special interest groups" might Dole have been talking about? Montana bloggers quickly spotted the meaning of Dole's early attack: The GOP incumbent, Conrad Burns, had voted in favor of the failed marriage-discrimination amendment in the Senate while Tester has said he doesn't think the issue is worth an amendment.
The Olympian also offers up an AP story on slightly improved prospects for LGBT-identified candidates, thanks, in part to organizations like the Victory Fund (which held its annual meeting in Seattle last winter).
The story doesn't mention a different group, Progressive Majority, that is also working to bring sensitivity to LGBT issues to down-list offices like county or city commissioners/council members and state legislative races. The group got its start here in Washington, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin with a focus on swing areas of the states. They've now expanded to other states, according to this article from The Nation.
LGBT rights is among the issues that the group insists its supported candidates embrace:
Too much political politics? Then maybe you'd prefer to get involved in a net-roots effort Save the Balls. That would be the iconic orange and blue 76 gas station logo-balls (which, it turns out, were originally designed for the Seattle World's Fair). The brand's current design-blind owner, ConocoPhillips, is working to replace the orange balls with red disks at the very moment that orange has become the new beige (or tan or black or pink or something). (You can still find one of the orange balls at the First Hill station near Harborview. A bizarre new red-version station can be found on Beacon Hill.) [via Seattlest]
Not enough political politics? Check out the new KIRO 710 host, liberal blogger David Goldstein. He embarks on his new part-time radio career tonight from 7 to 10 pm.
Tags: Link bites Washington politics, Montana politics, equal rights, eyman, gay marriage
Clearly, though, the Eyman john with all the money is still horny for more.
The Stranger's Eli Sanders wonders if the pro-rights groups who tried diligently to separate Eyman's referendum from the gay-marriage issue didn't make a mistake.
The Olympian takes a broader view of Tuesday's flame-out by Eyman by looking beyond the initiative huckster toward the long-range electoral prospects of one of the favorite GOP bogey-man issues: equal marriage rights.
Take a virtual trip east on I-90 to see how that kind of thing is already playing out:
In Montana, a populist farmer-candidate, Jon Tester, handily beat out a Beltway favorite to win the Democratic nomination to run against the state's Abrimoff-soiled incumbent for US Senate. Through Sen. Elizabeth Dole, the national GOP machine's first instinct was to paint Tester as a "puppet of national liberal special-interest groups who does not share the mainstream values of Montanans."
Just what "special interest groups" might Dole have been talking about? Montana bloggers quickly spotted the meaning of Dole's early attack: The GOP incumbent, Conrad Burns, had voted in favor of the failed marriage-discrimination amendment in the Senate while Tester has said he doesn't think the issue is worth an amendment.
The Olympian also offers up an AP story on slightly improved prospects for LGBT-identified candidates, thanks, in part to organizations like the Victory Fund (which held its annual meeting in Seattle last winter).
The story doesn't mention a different group, Progressive Majority, that is also working to bring sensitivity to LGBT issues to down-list offices like county or city commissioners/council members and state legislative races. The group got its start here in Washington, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin with a focus on swing areas of the states. They've now expanded to other states, according to this article from The Nation.
LGBT rights is among the issues that the group insists its supported candidates embrace:
Candidates must get 100 percent on a forty-item questionnaire that tests their commitment to economic justice and civil rights, including gay rights, public education, universal healthcare, environmental protection and abortion.
Not enough political politics? Check out the new KIRO 710 host, liberal blogger David Goldstein. He embarks on his new part-time radio career tonight from 7 to 10 pm.
Tags: Link bites Washington politics, Montana politics, equal rights, eyman, gay marriage
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