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Log Cabin Republicans Endorses Mark Kirk
http://online.logcabin.org ^ | May 27,2008 | Log Cabin Republicans

Posted on 01/29/2010 10:10:13 AM PST by Maelstorm

(Washington, DC) – Log Cabin Republicans announces six endorsements for the U.S. House and Senate. The organization endorses the following candidates for re-election: Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representatives Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Christopher Shays (R-CT).

“We’re proud to endorse these six lawmakers for re-election,” said Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon. “They’re strong allies and they have excellent records on issues of basic fairness for gay and lesbian Americans. They have stood with us. We are proud to stand with them during the upcoming campaign. We look forward to helping them win re-election.

“These members of Congress represent the future of the Republican Party,” said Sammon. “They support a unifying agenda and they believe, as we do, that the Republican Party must be a big tent party that welcomes everyone.”

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Congressman Mark Kirk voted against the anti-family federal marriage amendment. He is the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Hate Crimes Prevention Act and supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.logcabin.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; il; il2010; kirk; markkirktruthfile; rino; rmsp
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To: Maelstorm

Every one of these must face a primary challenge.


21 posted on 01/29/2010 1:50:19 PM PST by Antoninus (The RNC's dream ticket: Romney / Scozzafava 2012)
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To: Maelstorm

excerpt from ft.com...

The Republicans are blessed with a strong candidate: Mark Kirk, a five-term Congressman and Naval officer still active in the reserves (he returned this month from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan). Mr Kirk is all but certain to win Tuesday’s GOP primary.

A moderate with appeal to the independents who polls suggest are wavering in their support for the Democrats, he has alienated the more conservative “Tea Party” wing of his party. Last year he tried unsuccessfully to secure backing from Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate and erstwhile governor of Alaska, when she was in Chicago. Nevertheless, faced with the enticing prospect of humiliating Mr Obama, the Tea Party-goers are likely to support him.

What say you fella Freepers? I was for Kirk until I read more about him. Now
I’m back at square one. They’re all questionable and what are “Log Cabin Republicans?


22 posted on 01/29/2010 6:19:40 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS ... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Kirk lost me when he voted yes on cap & tax.

Hughes is the conservative candidate that I’m voting for.


23 posted on 01/29/2010 6:24:17 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: Fu-fu2

thanks


24 posted on 01/29/2010 6:36:38 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS ... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Maelstorm

The new Congressional Comm idea that candidates must not be phony libs like Dede in NY’s 23rd, might moderate the RINOs here even though the 15 gays willing to say they are Log Cabin Pubs endorsed them. And the name: Log Cabin to me refers to Abe Lincoln, who was not gay. Weird. Oh well, if all GOP candidates realize that they can just be CenterRight and not not not Left, that could change a lot of other endorsements as well as primary victors. Steele has learned his lesson by saying candidates should all run in primaries and who the people choose, is what they will get. /Good idea.


25 posted on 01/29/2010 7:48:50 PM PST by phillyfanatic
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Kirk is an idealogical liberal Republican who voted against the surge which worked in Iraq, he voted against any limits on abortion, he supports the gay activist agenda. There are libs in the military and he is one and he isn’t a moderate. He has never been. We have an opportunity to elect Patrick Hughes a common uncommon man who has ran a business and is a solid mainstream conservative. Kirk is not the kind of Senator we need, his election would make him the most liberal Republican in the Senate.


26 posted on 01/29/2010 8:21:50 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: RicocheT
We can’t expect purity on all issues, but small government, right to life and low taxes to spur economic growth are very important.

We cannot fail to also insist that a candidate be firm on never compromising or counterfeiting marriage as what it has always meant in this country, or allowing homosexuals to overrun and eviscerate our military. Not just important, but essential.

27 posted on 01/31/2010 4:41:20 AM PST by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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