Posted on 01/29/2008 5:21:55 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
You could call Chrissy Nakonsky a candidate of change.
Until about five years ago, Nakonsky, who recently announced she's running for the Minnesota Legislature and will seek the Republican endorsement in her Brainerd-area district, was known as Jeff Nakonsky.
Nakonsky said the 2006 reelection of the state's only openly gay Republican legislator, Sen. Paul Koering of nearby Fort Ripley, gives her hope that Brainerd-area voters won't deny her a legislative seat because of her gender change.
"If people vote for or against me, it should be because of my values," Nakonsky said.
While there are about 400 openly gay or lesbian elected officials in the United States, none is a transgender person, according to the Washington-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
A transgender woman served a term on a City Council in Georgia but was defeated for reelection last year, the organization said.
"I've voted Republican all my life," Nakonsky said. "Republicans swear by not raising taxes, and raising taxes would hurt families in poverty, like mine."
The district is currently represented by Rep. John Ward, DFL-Brainerd, who is serving his first term.
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McCain?
Maybe he/she should be McPains running mate.
Yup, thems Republicans awright! (note the “double wide”)
Your Honor, the verdict is guilty!
When I saw this story the first thing I thought of was the movie Fargo.
Note the baby stroller in front of the double wide sitting in the snow.
I’ve always tried to take time out to see that movie. Someday I will, someday.
There is no “transgendered woman” running for anything. There is a mutilated man running. It’s still a he, not a she.
Good grief...first log cabin Republicans...now this!
what’s this group?
“Note the baby stroller in front of the double wide sitting in the snow.”
Yup, up here we have those and broken refrigerators too. When I was a kid it was usually a Hudson flipped on its roof and the double wide was an old school bus with a tin stack out a window. Good living, good times!
wonderful... now i can go throw up my supper!!!
Yup, I’m sure it will be because of his/her values.
It allegedly votes republican, but it’s entire life is liberal.
Gender change is a farce. You can’t change your DNA. You are male or female. Surgery and hormone therapy and a new wardrobe don’t change that.
I know of lots of places where the buildings and the people are “double wides” that are conservative. As for being transgendered I would have thought that to be more of a liberal thing. And, I’m wondering how with him/her living in poverty he/she can afford all the medical procedures?
Oh count on that MR. Nakinsky! Count on that. And rational people will vote against your kind of values. No one who is mentally unstable should hold any public office.
Excellent post.
I always find it creepy when Freepers do the “guilty” / “not guilty” thing based on physical appearance. And I think it’s damned cruel to make fun of a poor family because they live in a prefabricated house. Haven’t you been poor? I have. Is it wrong to be poor?
I for one am a “conservative”, if that’s the word, because, among other things, I put my faith in the power and rights of individuals, not governments.
It appears Chrissy does too.
This story shows that love, faith, and hope can prevail over even the wierdest and most destitute conditions, that families are strong because they are families, that politics should be a field open even to the poor and marginalized, and that you don’t have to be wealthy to understand that taxes are deadly.
Moreover, my heart is warmed by the faith this person exhibits in the political system, and in her ability, as a private citizen, to change things for the better in her community.
I bet she’s the type who’ll be off public assistance in no time at all, and I suspect local republicans would do well to embrace their peculiar new sister.
As for me, my hat’s off to her.
In a nutshell and the absolute truth.
Transgendered?
You mean like when an Elephant becomes a RINO?
A lot of that going around these days. Must be contagious.
Guilty!
Transgendered?
You mean like when an Elephant becomes a RINO?
A lot of that going around these days. Must be contagious.
He’s a man. He is not a woman. He has had no surgery, just hormones. He is unemployed because his employer told him that because he is a man, he needed to wear mens clothing. So, he quit.
Not my kind of conservative values..
The kids are cute—but I fear for their futures.
I was going to post something unkind before I read your post. I’m far from perfect myself. Thank you for reminding me of it.
“Haven’t you been poor? I have. Is it wrong to be poor?”
Oh, times were hard when I was young! We only had one maid and our limo was the oldest on the street. I remember the scorn and snickers of some of the other boys at Exeter when I arrived there in that car. I’m afraid I was forever scared by those experiences...but I never took to wearing dresses! :)
yeah,
It’s a guy in a wig.
If he votes for a republican why do we care if he’s wearing a dress and living in a trailer.
It just demonstrates that you dont need to be a rocket scientist to understand the laffer curve.
Tolerance my friend... Tolerance means he tolerates you as much as you tolerate him. Id rather have this openly gay freak in office than senator happy feet the tap dancing values conservative in the bathroom stalls at the airport.
To that, I must quote that famous gay man and renowned wit, Oscar Wilde, who said, "Sentimentality is loving people more than God would."
Fred’s out and McCain’s winning in Florida tonight. Why not?
I for One wish it luck. :)
But if he really is conservative (and it is possible - being poor BUT understanding that high taxes on "the rich" will only make things worse for folks who are poor), I wouldn't hesitate to vote for him over the lefties who worship at the altar of Marx.
I'm not saying that his mental illness would not be a factor (tells you how bad the usual slate of choices are, lol!), but if he was rock-solid on immigration, 2A, taxes, spending, property rights, Gore-bull whoring, etc...I'd probably be a broken glasser. It (his gender confusion/illness) is, however, enough for me to going from nose-holder status to stay-home status.
John Irving’s works aside, you should know that Phillips Andover and Exeter academies (if the latter is indeed your alma mater), with their ‘deans of multiculturalism’ are practically famous for engendering (if you will) cross-dressing and trans-gender culture among students.
I just find it somewhat troubling that he wants Minnesota to recognize him as a woman, dammit, as he continues to father children, as recent as 19 months ago.
As far as the being poor thing, as I mentioned earlier, he is poor by choice. He could have left the dress at home and continued to work. He chose to quit.
I don’t enjoy answering the alarm at 5:00AM to be in the office by 5:45 every day (for the last 17 years). However, it pays the bills.
Sure beats sitting on my tail in a dress whining about being poor.
You’re gonna get us in trouble........
;-)
“John Irving’s works aside, you should know that Phillips Andover and Exeter academies (if the latter is indeed your alma mater), with their ‘deans of multiculturalism’ are practically famous for engendering (if you will) cross-dressing and trans-gender culture among students.”
Can’t speak to practices at the Phillips Academy at Andover, but as for PEA, my alma mater indeed, I am pleased to see that it is still preparing its students to deal with anything they’ll meet out in the world. I doubt they are engendering transgenderism, but the may still be teaching students how to treat the help. I hope so. :)
I take it you didn’t go to either. That’s a shame. They had and have a generous scholarship system for the poor. I’m told that’s part of the multicultural program.
which one was formally a man?
Still a man.
The one in the first picture and the one on the right (no pun intended) in the second picture.
Every Exeter kid I ever met played lacrosse, or was a homosexual. All wrote good papers. I must admit that in my freshman year at Yale I was jealous of how well the Exeter kids seemed to have been “prepped.”
“Sentimentality is loving people more than God would.”
No one loves people more than God does.
I always find it creepy when Freepers do the “guilty” / “not guilty” thing based on physical appearance.
I found your whole post creepy.
How often fleshly judgment is passed as righteous.
“...and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your G-d?”
“She” has a d!ck.
“She” wants attention.
“She” is a sick puppy.
CREEPY
Precisely. Think about it. It's a comment on sentimentality, not on God.
Apparently it wasn't generous enough to buy your family a better limo. Or multicultural enough to teach its students not to scorn a boy who arrived in last season's Bentley.
tsk.
“Apparently it wasn’t generous enough to buy your family a better limo. Or multicultural enough to teach its students not to scorn a boy who arrived in last season’s Bentley.
tsk.”
True, but it made men out of us. Huc venite pueri, ut viri sitis! (It was too bad about the kid in that old S1)
Pain and Love make men of boys.
Fathers, Mothers, heartbreak, proximity to death, and military service provide these ingredients squarely, but as the product of a school famous for turning boys into men, I have yet to see any school turn a boy into a man.
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