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Transgender candidate could become a first in NYC
Associated Press ^ | Jun 18, 2013 2:45 AM EDT | Jennifer Peltz

Posted on 06/18/2013 3:52:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Mel Wymore is a typical city council candidate in many ways, campaigning as a community board appointee, ex-PTA chair and founder of a roster of local organizations. But Wymore’s community-leader resume has an unusual feature: He built much of it while he was a woman.

If he wins, Wymore would be the first openly transgender officeholder in the nation’s biggest city and one of only a handful ever in the U.S., though his campaign isn’t emphasizing his personal story—or sidestepping it. …

Wymore, a Democrat, faces several opponents who also have long records of community involvement on Manhattan’s upscale, liberal Upper West Side.

Nationwide, at least five transgender people have won city, school board and judicial elections, including current Mayor Stu Rasmussen of Silverton, Ore. Perhaps dozens of others have run across the country; it’s unclear whether any such candidate has run in New York City. …

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: citycouncil; homosexualagenda; melwymore; transgendered

1 posted on 06/18/2013 3:52:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Every day, I see another example of our country becoming a freak show. Malignant narcissism indeed. Does anyone want someone who doesn't even know his gender as a political representative with power over them?
2 posted on 06/18/2013 3:56:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Olog-hai

Just another individual parading around as someone she isn’t.


3 posted on 06/18/2013 3:56:48 AM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Olog-hai

People need too much attention.


4 posted on 06/18/2013 3:59:54 AM PDT by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: Olog-hai

All of the city council candidates on the UWS attempt to “out-progressive” one another. I’d like to vote for the older gentleman who stands with an American flag and an “Illegals Are Not Legal” sign in front of my subway stop.


5 posted on 06/18/2013 4:01:55 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Olog-hai
Transgender candidate could become a first in NYC

But he wouldn't be the first mentally ill democrat.

6 posted on 06/18/2013 4:07:36 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Olog-hai

A mental defective mutilated woman.

These stories insist on calling someone who mutilates themselves whatever sex they choose to be instead of what sex they actually are.

I can cut the penis off a goat it doesn’t make Billy a Nanny.


7 posted on 06/18/2013 4:09:50 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Olog-hai

What can Minnesota do to outweird them?

Maybe Jesse will come back and run as a woman?


8 posted on 06/18/2013 4:14:49 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought it was bad in 2002 when 6 of the 7 candidates for assembly were gay. This isn’t even a gay neighborhood. They are just ACTIVE. They are ORGANIZED. Swarms of them creeping through the big buildings with questionnaires for Quinn’s GOTV. Then they go to Starbux and take up the big table and don’t buy anything. Almost makes you feel sorry for the old-fashioned Democrats out there on the sidewalks collecting signatures for de Blasio.


9 posted on 06/18/2013 4:22:16 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Rummyfan

You underestimate the idiocy of NYC


10 posted on 06/18/2013 4:37:13 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Olog-hai

still a woman. a mutilated woman.

an Adadictome does not a man make....


11 posted on 06/18/2013 4:41:17 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Olog-hai

Another FREAK DEMOCRAT!!


12 posted on 06/18/2013 5:01:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

Looks like she'll fit right in on the Big Apple's City Council.

13 posted on 06/18/2013 5:11:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Caipirabob
But he wouldn't be the first mentally ill democrat.

He? Remember..."X" + "X" = she

14 posted on 06/18/2013 5:14:43 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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