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Democrat State Senator in Colorado fires gay staffer for hanging out with a Republican
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Posted on 01/07/2014 7:27:21 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

rom Campus Reform, "Colorado Democrat fires gay aide allegedly for visiting Republican office": Tyler Drum, a 21-year-old homosexual aide to Democrat state Senator Irene Aguilar (photo), was fired on the spot from his position in the Colorado Senate because he allegedly visited the office of a fellow college aide who happens to work for a Republican. Drum, a 2013 graduate of Colorado State University, told Campus Reform that Aguilar did not explain why he had been fired.  “I thought this would happen on the Republican side, now I’m a disenchanted Democrat.” Tweet This “She just said leadership was uncomfortable with me befriending Republicans,” Drum said. Drum, who is a registered Democrat, is disappointed in his firing. “I thought this would happen on the Republican side, now I’m a disenchanted Democrat,” he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; tolerance
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To: PLD
The Dem's cannot afford to have any of their help learn a thing.

Can't have the Useful Idiots become the informed opposition.

41 posted on 01/07/2014 8:22:42 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

C’mon Tyler —the Log cabin Boys are waiting for you!


42 posted on 01/07/2014 8:22:52 AM PST by brooklyn dave ( Dante DiBlasio's Afro for President)
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To: Red Badger
Kinda difficult to talk while biting the pillow...............

Sometimes one has to learn the hard way..................

43 posted on 01/07/2014 8:23:28 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: GOPJ

The most vile, hateful, bitter, deceitful, venomous, angry, vicious, backstabbing, enraged people I have ever met were dems.

These traits came out when trying to discuss Republicans. Their anger was actually breathtaking - my sister is included in this group of people!!! (We have no contact now.)

It was astonishing how much they hate Republicans and how they projected their own traits on people they didn’t even know.


44 posted on 01/07/2014 8:27:38 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: mountn man

Heh, heh, heh..............


45 posted on 01/07/2014 8:28:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
That's the one!

46 posted on 01/07/2014 8:32:38 AM PST by grobdriver
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To: Tolkien
Those who cry “tolerance” the most are themselves the most intolerant.

Speed reading doesn't work well with that ...

Try using ...

Those who cry “tolerance” the most are themselves the most INTOLERANT.

47 posted on 01/07/2014 8:35:23 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: SoFloFreeper
“I thought this would happen on the Republican side,

Welcome to Democrat reality. Conform or be cast out.

48 posted on 01/07/2014 8:43:59 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: 12th_Monkey

“Editor’s comment - It actually should be happening on the Republican side of the aisle. Republican staffers, Republican whomever, should never associate with anyone who is a Democrat, including family members, for any reason whatsoever.”

I agree”

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I hope you’re kidding.

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49 posted on 01/07/2014 8:51:41 AM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

If I were in politics and a republican, I wouldn’t want my staff being on “friendly” terms with democratic staffers. You can’t trust Democrats or their minions.
Haven’t you observed how backstabbing they are in national politics??


50 posted on 01/07/2014 8:59:17 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: 12th_Monkey

I think the part that I find disturbing is keeping away from family members who are Democrats.

This attitude would eliminate two of my own children from my life and I love them and they are very good to me. We just stay away from some topics since we all know how the others feel.

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51 posted on 01/07/2014 9:05:01 AM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

I pretty much disowned a brother-in-law because he supported Obama.


52 posted on 01/07/2014 9:08:02 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
I've got a friend (though we haven't talked in years), whose viewpoints are 180 degrees from mine.

He is STAUNCH democrat, where I am staunch conservative.

This here is one area we differ. He identifies with a party, I identify with a thought pattern or ideal.

We had been friends for over 25 years. He was ALWAYS the whiner and complainer. Everything was too hard, or this was wrong or that was wrong. Waa, waa, waa.

The last number of years that we talked, it got to the point that I'd dread his calls. He sounded like Eeyore all the time. He found a problem everywhere. Everything was the fault of the rich or republicans. His lifes issues were always so tough.

One time he was complaining about the cold winters, and that he couldn't handle the cold anymore. The driving in snow. The shoveling.

He didn't like it when I started smiling. You see, we are about the same age. He is 5 months older. We were in our mid to late 30's at the time. (30's, and you can't handle a little cold?) He drove about 30 minutes to work every day. Worked in a shop or factory. I work in construction...OUTSIDE...most of the time. There are times, working at steel mills during a shut down, that YOU HAVE to work in 0 or single digit numbers (not including windchill). You're 200 feet up in the air on top of a blast furnace, with the wind BLOWING. To paraphrase Tom Hanks "There's no crying in pipefitting".

If I'm within a 1 hour drive to get to work, I'm in my backyard. It's not uncommon to drive 1 to 1-1/2 hours to AND from work and work 10-12-14 hours. Like the Duke said "A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do". Whining about stuff doesn't make it better and it doesn't make it easier. Though a good attitude doesn't change the difficulty of the work or the conditions, it does affect the man. You can either be in a good mood doing something, or a bad mood. Good moods are more enjoyable.

He stopped calling about 5-6 years ago, after a phone call, where I basically unloaded on him. I was tired of his whining and his blaming everybody else for his problems and his blaming those with differing political views for the problems with this country.

I can remember one of the last comments we had that day. We were talking about some political this or that. I believe we were talking taxes. He was regurgitating some talking point. I was quoting facts and stats. I mean, I knew tax rates for different income levels. I quoted exemptions and deductions. I knew what FICA taxes are and how much (including how much goes to SS and how much to medicare). All he had were PMSNBC rhetoric.

Finally I stated that I had given him all these facts and stats. Things he could look up, and where they could be found. I know, because I looked the stuff up and figured it out myself. I asked him how he knew? His response. "Because I know!"

You just can't argue with that logic.

He is probably the most extreme case, for me. But I see a huge portion of him in just about every democrat/liberal I meet.

I remember one of the other things he said during that conversation. he said he was getting more angry and bitter all the time.

Gee...ya think?

Again, something I see a lot in liberals.

53 posted on 01/07/2014 9:12:34 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

As a matter of fact, I have noticed it too. In my case, I have seen plenty of people out there, so dang obssessed with politics, that it just totally is annoying. Politics isn’t a full time thought process for me, sometimes, I am just happy with what I have right now, period. It’s like liberals turned to grinches or something.


54 posted on 01/07/2014 9:39:39 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mugged by reality.
The ‘10 Minutes of Hate’ the Left engages in will backfire someday.


55 posted on 01/07/2014 9:55:00 AM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: mountn man

” He was ALWAYS the whiner and complainer.”

He wraps himself in his misery like it was his “blankie”.

He’d be lost without it.

Sad!

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56 posted on 01/07/2014 10:26:46 AM PST by Mears
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To: george76

Ping


57 posted on 01/07/2014 10:30:36 AM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Was it hanging out with Josh Penry?I hear he is big on gay rights now.


58 posted on 01/07/2014 10:32:13 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: subterfuge
Sounds like a lawsuit to me!

On what grounds? Colorado is an "at-will" employment state (like every other state in the country), so an employer may legally fire someone for their political leanings (real or imagined).

59 posted on 01/07/2014 10:36:19 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Good on CO then. Glad to hear it.


60 posted on 01/07/2014 4:10:15 PM PST by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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