To the Members of the Log Cabin Club (Romney's Smoking Gay Gun)

MR.org ^ | 6 Oct 94 | Mitt Romney

[xzins]

To the Members of the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts:

I am writing to thank the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts for the advice and support you have given to me during my campaign for the U.S. Senate and to seek the Club’s formal endorsement of my election. The Log Cabin Club has played a vital role in reinvigorating the Republican Party in Massachusetts and your endorsement is important to me because it will provide further confirmation that my campaign and approach to government is consistent with the values and vision of government we share.

I am pleased to have had an opportunity to talk with you and to meet many of you personally during your September meeting. I learned a great deal from those discussions and the many thoughtful questions you posed. As a result of our discussions and other interactions with gay and lesbian voters across the state, I am more convinced than ever before that as we seek to establish full equality for Americas gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent.

I am not unaware of my opponent’s considerable record in the area of civil rights, or the commitment of Massachusetts voters to the principle of equality for all Americans. For some voters it might be enough for me to simply match my opponent’s record in this area. But I believe we can and must do better. If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.

We have discussed a number of important issues such as the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which I have agreed to co-sponsor, and if possible broaden to include housing and credit, and the bill to create a federal panel to find ways to reduce gay and lesbian youth suicide, which I also support. One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.

As we begin the final phase of this campaign, I need your support more than ever. By working together, we will achieve the goals we share for Massachusetts and our Nation.

Sincerely,

W. Mitt Romney

[xzins]

You don’t read much do you. He consistently maintained this throughout. Public with it again in 2002.

And...Romney reaffirmed his support of State ENDA just 2 weeks ago.

It was all over Free Republic.

You need to get out more.

[xzins]

...this anti-Romney letter

Anti-Romney letter????

Romney WROTE the freakin' letter. It's his. He signed it. He sent it. He chose the words. He thought the thoughts.

You RomneyWorshippers need to get off the drugs.

[StAnDeliver]

(Is he stupid, out to lunch, a sociopath or what? Who would sign such statements? What do they teach at Harvard Law? Really, I don't get him. The guy is crazy. You can not be that educated and stupid at the same time. There's some lobe Drain Bamage here somewhere folks.)

...a la Tom CruiseControl.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1514049/posts
Time’s Pressing Agenda (pro-gay movement almost got ripped off its head)

>>>>The story glowed over the prospect that more teens identify themselves as gay. It praised efforts to provide gay teens with scholarships and the proliferation of Gay Straight Alliance clubs in public schools. It dismissed professional and religious claims that homosexual orientation can be treated.

Who is David Mixner?
(snip)

A big, garrulous man, with a robust laugh and a passion beyond measure, the author and political consultant, born in southern New Jersey on August 16, 1946, fell into the world of politics almost by accident. “I don’t know why I got so much political success at such a young age,” he says. He’s never run for office (”Never will”), never accepted an political appointment, not even when his good friend Bill Clinton was living in the White House, and he has interests that reach far beyond the world of politics.

(snip)

I’ve been a political person for forty-four years — started doing volunteer work for John F. Kennedy in 1960. My family were Irish-Catholic immigrants and it was an essential part of the Irish-Catholic experience to work for Kennedy if you were alive back then. I was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. And I was head of the Vietnam Moratorium, which in the late sixties did all the big marches against the war in Vietnam. I got heavily involved in the campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern and Robert Kennedy for president. I became very prominent politically and nationally as a young person — of course that was the age of youth back then, “The Summer of Love.” I’d been to jail a couple of times by then for civil rights — all for the right things. I was in the closet until I was thirty.

(snip)

MIXNER: Light years ahead of where we were. Let’s just sort of walk through it. I was one of the founders of the first gay and lesbian political PACs in history. And that partially came out of the fact of me coming out and becoming a victim — “God, they’re returning my money and they’re not letting me play anymore” and “ I’m a has-been at 30.” My partner, Peter Scott, said to me, “You can either be a victim or you can fight back. What’s the thing they respect more than anything else?” And I said, “Money.” And he said, “Well, let’s just speak their language.” So we formed the first gay and lesbian PAC in history, called MECLA — the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles. It was the organization that HRC modeled itself after. We had the first big political dinner in Los Angeles. I’ll never forget — it made $40,000, an all-time record. And we couldn’t believe it. Now, the other night, I sat in an audience in New York, where the gay and lesbian community raised $1.8 million for John Kerry in one night. And five days beforehand, the gay and lesbian community in the back yard of Senator Edward Kennedy raised another $300,000 for the fight against the amendment. And HRC in the last six months has raised a million to fight the amendment. And the Log Cabin Republicans raised almost a million to fight the amendment. Start adding it up — we’ve almost raised $25 million this year alone. And back then we were thrilled with forty-fucking-thousand dollars. So look at how far we’ve come, that’s my point.

(snip)

MIXNER: I don’t want him to. I don’t want him to even look back at that record. We’re a whole different community than we were in the 1990s. I want him to have a whole different image of us. And I want us to force him to look at us differently. He’s going to be tempted to look at what he knows. And what he knows is the community of the 1990s. But we’re a whole different tribe now. And we cannot be the ones to push the Clinton analogy out there. We’ve got to say, “Oh, no, no, no, that was a decade ago, honey. Listen, Mary, it’s a whole new world.” It’s not enough to be appointed deputy deputy deputy deputy. We want cabinet. We want money from the DNC for our Senate candidates.

Electing your own in the political process is still the most important thing. I’ve often said I didn’t spend these last twenty some years fighting for someone to be the head of the gay and lesbian student alliance. I’ve been fighting for twenty years so they can be president. Of the United States. And I mean it. I don’t know if I’ll live to see it, but then I actually didn’t think I’d live long enough to see a lot of the stuff I’ve seen. I’ve been caught by surprise by how much progress we’ve made. So who knows?

more: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=244#244

He was one of five key leaders of the Moratorium.
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=1#1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=238#238
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=270#270

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=270#270
“I have written and spoken and marched against the war. One of the national organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close friend of mine.”

The friend he’s alluding to would be David Mixner, one of five key leaders of the Moratorium, the other four being Jerome Grossman (founder), Sam Brown (primary organizer), David Hawk, and Marge Sklencar.

On a related note with respect to Kerry, in early 1970 while he was running for Congress Kerry became friends and political allies with Grossman and Brown. . .[SNIP]

The first paragraph ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=1#1 ) is a quote from Bill Clinton, not John Kerry. Hence what I was saying in the second paragraph was that Clinton knew Mixner. Kerry knew Mixner’s associates Jerome Grossman and Sam Brown. I don’t know if he knew Mixner; he may have.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499463/posts
Time Magazine, School Event Expose Massive Cultural Campaign to Promote Homosexuality to Kids

(snip)

The TIME October 10 piece, “The Battle Over Gay Teens,” which includes not a single reference to the extremely dangerous medical consequences of homosexual behavior, especially for boys, includes these details:

• A cocktail party in Manhattan with billionaire liquor magnate Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Clinton political strategist David Mixner was held in May to raise money for the Point Foundation, a scholarship program to turn “gay” kids into homosexual activists...

(snip)

For immediate release

Sunday, August 14, 1994

Contact: Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats
Post Office Box 11311
Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0311
(801)461-5058 metropolitan Salt Lake City telephone number
(800)864-0310 national toll-free telephone number
Internet: glud@aol.com

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David Mixner fights gay political “under-representation”

SALT LAKE CITY - Shortly before President Bill Clinton announced his support
of a new “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” policy about gays in the
military, his openly gay college friend and campaign advisor David Mixner
told The Washington Blade that the president was “good, but far from perfect
on gay and AIDS issues.”

The Los Angeles-based political consultant was expressing a widespread
opinion about how many bisexual, gay and lesbian people viewed President
Clinton more critically after his election than they did during his 1992
presidential campaign when he promised to lift the ban against gays in the
military completely, among other things.

“I find him to still be very popular in the gay and lesbian community, but
people are no longer willing to give blind faith. It is now more of an
alliance than a fan club,” Mixner said.

That alliance is what gave one of Mixner’s groups, Coalition ‘93, the chance
to encourage the appointment of more than 22 openly gay or lesbian staffers
to the Clinton administration including Roberta Achtenberg as the assistant
secretary for fair housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development.

But the government appointment of openly bisexual, gay and lesbian people is
only part of the fight for Mixner. As a director of the Washington,
D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, he hopes to take the success of
electing a supportive president and appointing administration staffers to the
ballot boxes of every state.

“Gay men and lesbians are the most under-represented group in electoral
politics,” Mixner complains. Other Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund leaders point
out that of the 497,155 elected officials serving in the United States, only
70 are openly bisexual, gay or lesbian including two U.S. representatives and
12 state legislators. The Fund contributes much-needed money to the campaigns
of openly bisexual, gay and lesbian people.

Mixner has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the Gay and Lesbian Utah
Democrats 1994 Celebration which is planned for 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8
at the John W. Gallivan Utah Center at 36 East 200 South in Salt Lake City.
He plans to speak about “We’re Our Own Best Hope - Coming Out In Politics.”

“It’s appropriate that one of America’s most successful gay politicians will
be joining us to celebrate our most successful year,” GLUD Chair Michael
Aaron said. “David Mixner works effectively and tirelessly to define
bisexual, gay and lesbian politics inside and outside the Clinton White
House, and as a director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.”

The celebration is the group’s fourth-annual reception and awards dinner, and
is a National Coming Out Day event. The black-tie-optional celebration has
attracted many elected and appointed public officials and candidates since
the first such event in 1990.

“We’re very pleased to be offering again one of the few formal events in Utah
that brings together bisexual, gay and lesbian people and public officials in
a pleasant environment,” GLUD Founder David Nelson said. “Our celebrations
have become known by many as one of the most enjoyable evenings of the year.”

Tickets are available for $30 per person and $55 per couple. Tickets are also
available to GLUD members for $25 each. Ticket information is available by
calling (801)461-5058 or (800)864-0310. Seating is limited.

http://www.aim.org/aim_report_print/5_0_4_0/
AIM Report: Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Cover-Ups
August 11, 2003

(snip)

Anti-Anti-Communist

In her book, however, Hillary does write about some of her radical associates. She notes a meeting in 1969 with David Mixner of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, an anti-Vietnam war protest group that came under investigation by the House Internal Security Subcommittee for its involvement with communists and backing from Hanoi. Mixner would go on to become a leading homosexual activist, adviser to and friend of President Clinton. He was credited with delivering some six million votes to Clinton in 1992.

(snip)

[Calpernia]

The Republicans National Committee have become complicit with enabling the take over of the party.

They prop up their Most Liberal candidates.

They allow
groups affiliated with anti war movements to operated under the Republican National Committee banners and use our money to defeat us from within:

Stonewall's AntiWar movement funded by International A.N.S.W.E.R.

David Mixner was the one that organized the Vietnam anti war activists. David Mixner was Clintons gay political advisor. It was David Mixner that started the funds for the Victory Funds and the Log Cabin Republicans.

The Republicans National Committee have become complicit with enabling the take over of the party.

They prop up their Most Liberal candidates.

They allow
groups affiliated with anti war movements to operated under the Republican National Committee banners and use our money to defeat us from within:

Stonewall's AntiWar movement funded by International A.N.S.W.E.R.

David Mixner was the one that organized the Vietnam anti war activists. David Mixner was Clintons gay political advisor. It was David Mixner that started the funds for the Victory Funds and the Log Cabin Republicans.

[CatQuilt]

Issue #3. Though Romney pretends he opposed homosexual “marriage,” he did the opposite. In 2002 he opposed a marriage amendment that would have prevented homosexual “marriage.” 120,000 citizens, including his wife, son and daughter-in-law signed the amendment petition.

I remember this! He was unhappy that his wife signed this petition.

[Calpernia]

That is ok. His campaign put these out too but I was accused of being the owner. ::shrugs::

[Calpernia]

I had also found this; but that source domain has been disputed so I don’t use it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1794584/posts?page=177#177

[Ol' Sparky]

Romney is completely unacceptable and unelectable. Here’s hoping McCain will end this miserable, lying RINO’s chances tomorrow.

[napscoordinator]

Somebody must be very scared that Romney is going to win the nomination because their are a lot of this type of news articles from 14 years ago today. I guess being against gay marriage is not enough for you???

[HKMk23]

As a man thinketh, so is he. And the past, it is said, is prologue.

THAT is why these things come up.

The positions taken in the past are brought to light for contemporary comparison with present-day assertions by the same person, then laid aside that person’s record during the interval between then and now. If there were not actions during that time to substantiate a departure from the originally stated position, then we must believe that there HAS been no such change; that the individual remains convinced of their original position as stated.

On this critical moral issue, it is manifest that Romney was a ZERO in 1994. He’s said a fair amount in recent weeks that SOUNDS like he’s had a rethink and holds a more morally sound position, now, but has he really? Or, maybe the original statements weren’t what he really thought; maybe they were just political pandering, in which case we should believe him now, why?

When was he lying about what he really thinks; then or now?

If the answer is “neither”, then where’s the list of definitive gubernatiorial acts that prove Romney now holds a morally sound view?

Why is this so much like trying to nail Jell-O to a freakin’ tree?

[xzins]

Can you rephrase that? I don’t understand what you meant.

[xzins]

This letter is entirely current. Here’s the transcript from the DECEMBER 16, 2007 (Just 3 weeks ago) MSNBC interview between Romney & Russert:

Russert: You said [in 1994] that you would sponsor [Sen. Ted Kennedy’s federal] Employment Nondiscrimination Act. Do you still support it?

Romney: At the state level. I think it makes sense at the state level for states to put in provision of this.

Russert: Now, you said you would sponsor it at the federal level.

Romney: I would not support at the federal level, and I changed in that regard because I think that policy makes more sense to be evaluated or to be implemented at the state level.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22273924/page/6/

In case you missed it: Russert asked Romney if he still supported ENDA. Romney replied that he did support them at the state level. He said that implementing such laws “makes sense.”

[seoul62]

Reminds me of how my Father, may he rest in peace use to scream at me./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[HKMk23]

Thanks for that; I cut the cable cold turkey in 1990 and have never looked back. Talk radio, top-of-the-hour network radio news, and articles linked through this website are all but my only sources, anymore.

Seems Romney’s trying to invoke Federalism as a foil to save him from his pro-ENDA position syaing he’d NOT support Federal ENDA, but thinks it’d be a good thing for the 50 States to implement individually.

Well, that’s just a difference of methods, not a difference of substance. When you think 50 out of 50 States should implement XYZ, it isn’t much practical difference from having the FedGov implement XYZ; details might vary from State to State, but the overall result would be functionally the same.

Sorry, Mitt. The Skeleton is still there. FLUSH!!!

[khnyny]

Mitt Romney is the man who stopped Massachusetts from being the Gay Marriage Mecca the Log Cabin Republicans wanted and the Mass Supreme Court tried to establish.

You are absolutely right. LOL. The Log Cabin Republicans hate Romney with a passion. He is the only Republican candidate that they have run attack ads against.

Freepers really need to get their facts straight and stop the baseless attacks. (No pun intended.)

[jstolzen]

OK, you just GOTTA help me out here..

You’re rooting for McCain because he’d beat out a RINO?

Um...

McCain is KING OF THE RINOs, my friend. (Lest we forget..can you say “Gang of 14?”..co-chair of the Illegal Immigration push..etc etc etc). The list is endless.

I mean..how many times have we seen the infamous McCain face superimposed over the Rino body here on FR?

Problem is, ALL of these guys are RINOs in the worst way.

Can we PULEEEZE get a REAL Conservative into the mix? Pretty please?

[xzins]

The difference between what Romney said and a pro-federalist position is that Romney suggests he SUPPORTED the legislation being approved at the state level....exactly what he did in Mass.

[conservative blonde]

When you are running to get elected to a political office, you try to appeal to as large a group of voters as you can.”As a man thinketh” the problem is that you don’t know all the time what a person is truly thinking. Too many people try to please others and do not express their true thinking or feelings because they want to be liked (or elected). There isn’t much you can do about that. Only God can look upon the heart and know who and what the person is.The rest of us just have to use what commonsense we have to understand what a person is saying and why. There is no perfect candidate for the office of President and the sooner people understand that the better. We just have to choose that person we think is the one who best expresses our own preferences for who we think will be the best leader for our country at this particular time in history.

[CatQuilt]

Actually, the Log Cabin Republican ‘attack’ ads serve 2 purposes,

1. they should gays how he stabbed them in the back (because at one point, he was very sympathetic to their views)

2. they show us breeders that he was very sympathetic to their views (he says he no longer is but where’s the proof)