Virginia Homosexual group election comments (BARF ALERT)

[Gopher Broke]

Gay Bashing Not Effective Campaign Tactic

EV PAC Welcomes Several New Fair-Minded Senators and Delgates to Virginia General Assembly

For the second election cycle in a row, voters in different parts of Virginia rejected gay- bashing as a campaign tactic and elected fair-minded candidates who expressed support for basic human rights for all Virginians – helping to elect a new fair-minded majority in the Virginia Senate. Of the 53 candidates that Equality Virignia PAC supported in 2007, 45 were elected, or 85%.

"Equality Virginia is pleased to welcome back Senator Mark Herring and Delegates Chuck Caputo and David Poisson who were among the candidates we supported strongly in 2005 and again this year," said Dyana Mason, Executive Director of Equality Virginia. "We are particularly pleased that EV PAC supported candidate George Barker will be replacing Jay O'Brien, who was one of the only candidates in this cycle to use overtly anti-gay themes in his campaign. Barker's election, together with the election of EV PAC supported Senate candidates John Miller (D Newport News) and Ralph Northam (D Norfolk), shows unequivocally that you can get elected in Virginia as a candidate who supports ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and extending health benefits equally to all families."

In addition to an anti-gay mailer by Jay O’Brien’s campaign, there were a few other instances of anti-gay campaigning. In early 2007, Del. David Poisson was the apparent target of an anti-gay question in a “push poll” apparently paid for by candidate Lynn Chapman, and Senate candidate Tricia Stall made headlines just a few days before the election attacking the support Senator-elect John Miller had received from the gay community. Jill Holtzman-Vogel's swipe at Karen Schultz for using a consulting firm that touted its success in helping to elect an openly gay candidate did little to help her in an unexpectedly close contest in a strongly Republican Senate District. That district had been held by retiring Senator Russell Potts, who had been instrumental in killing legislation to ban gay/straight alliances as Chair of the Senate Education and Health Committee.

" Virginia is making real strides forward, and this should be a message to all candidates, regardless of party, that anti-gay campaign rhetoric is ineffective and is not a strategy for victory in any district in the state," said David C. Lampo, chair of the EV PAC Advisory Committee and Vice Chair of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia.

"We are pleased that Equality Virginia PAC was able to make a difference again this election cycle, and we intend to continue playing a role in electing fair-minded candidates in the future," concluded Jay Squires, chair of the board of Equality Virginia. “We are looking forward to working with a new fair-minded majority in the Senate that crosses party lines, and with a growing number of fair-minded members in the House of Delegates.”

Paid for and Authorized by Equality Virginia PAC, Inc.

[Graybeard58]

The fudge packers win another round.

[Red Badger]

Just as long as they ain’t GREEN BAY PACKERS...........

[massgopguy]

When did sexual activity become an accomplishment?

[Red Badger]

Well, when I was in HS......................

[Mad Dawg]

Fair-minded

If you disagree with me, you are not fair-minded. As long as that's clear ....

[Ouderkirk]

sodomy is NOT a civil right

[muawiyah]

Those guys sure missed the message. The new Democrats they elected to dislodge the Republicans from the Virginia Senate are, for the most part, anti-illegal alien, anti-anti-anti-gun types, and anti-homosexual privileges types.

And, like Senator Webb, they've probably got their red-armbands at home in their top dresser drawer waiting for the moment where they can leap out and announce the Fourth Reich.