"A critical mass of John Edwards' LGBT steering committee is going public with support for... Obama"

[ProSense]

Edwards' LGBT VIPs switch to Obama

published Monday, February 4, 2008

A critical mass of John Edwards' LGBT steering committee is going public with support for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Twenty-two members of the Edwards campaign’s 59-person gay and lesbian committee will now be working for Obama victories Tuesday and throughout the rest of the primary season.

The new Obama converts include Eric Stern, who headed up Edwards' LGBT steering committee, and longtime gay activist David Mixner, who famously campaigned for Bill Clinton in 1992, holding some of the very first gay fund-raisers for a U.S. presidential candidate.

Mixner, a peace activist during the war in Vietnam, came out early for Edwards after the former North Carolina senator made an unequivocal case for ending the Iraq war in a speech at the historic Riverside Church in Harlem in January last year.

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Stern admitted that he had already been moving toward supporting Obama, mainly because, like Edwards, Obama has refused to take money from special interest groups. He also feels that Obama has the “purest position” of the any of the three candidates in supporting full repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act since 2004. Clinton supports repealing only the part of DOMA that prohibits the federal government from recognizing state sanctioned same-sex marriages, leaving in place the portion that allows states to ignore legal unions performed in other states.

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[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

3. A certain camp's crickets...

... don't have any Jiminy's.

- Dave

[ProSense]

4. Indeed! n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

5. You just gave me an idea.

:rofl:

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

2. You're swimming upstream against a certain orthodoxy, ProSense.

Thank you for all your informative threads.

- Dave

[Laurab]

6. Hey, I'll K&R this one - it's just that I'm busy....

Watching kooky Huckabee while waiting for Obama on CSPAN, and seeing if anyone answers my question about Hillary, Obama and permanent bases in Iraq. Seems Hillary will have them, and I want to send it to a couple family members before tomorrow.

Hi Dave!

[CorpGovActivist]

8. How are you guys holding up?

:hug:

:prayers:

- Dave

[Laurab]

9. Pretty good, thanks.

check your PM, please.....it was a full week.

[CorpGovActivist]

10. Breathe easy. Read the reply.

:hug:

[Laurab]

11. Whew.

Thank you so much! :hug: I'm actually ok, he's pretty upbeat, and it's better than the not knowing that's been going on since November, but after the week I had, it was pretty scary at first.

[Laurab]

7. I forgot - That IS Good News! n/t