November 23, 2024
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Sorry, Dana, DeMaio’s no dream

LGBT Weekly08 mins

I doubt there is any real danger that a Fox News item would convince most San Diegans that former Councilmember Carl DeMaio is our dream congressional candidate. Still, Dana Perino’s article (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/04/28/california-house-race-no-one-puts-gay-republican-carl-demaio-in-corner/) Straight talk about gay Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio warrants some discussion. Perino’s column begins by suggesting that DeMaio’s biography and Council record…

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Commentary: should our congressional candidates be focusing on mayoral issues?

Steve Lee, Editor07 mins

Like many San Diegans, I found out Monday morning that Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio would be organizing events for the effort to recall Mayor Bob Filner. This is my shocked font! Of course, the man who lost the mayoral race to Filner is joining the recall. It allows him to settle an old score and…

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Attorneys release confidential Boy Scout files on alleged sex abusers

Steve Lee, Editor019 mins

(CNN) – Attorneys releasing confidential Boy Scouts files on alleged child molestation are calling upon Congress to audit whether the group’s youth protections are working. The effort to seek a congressional inquiry came Thursday as the attorneys released more than 20,000 Boy Scout documents identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group…

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SLDN praises congressional bill to extend benefits, support to military spouses

LGBT Weekly15 mins

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Army Veteran and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis today applauded the introduction of HR 6046, the Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act of 2012 (MSET) that would change the definition of “spouse” in four areas of U.S. Code related to recognition, support, and benefits for married service members and veterans….

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Nathan Fletcher’s ‘missing years’ raise legitimate questions

LGBT Weekly32 mins

Dear editor, Why does Nathan Fletcher pretend he never worked for several years as convicted felon “Duke” Cunningham’s chief in-district assistant? While Cunningham was driving a Rolls Royce, living in a multi-million dollar Rancho Santa Fe mansion, and making only about $175,000 [before taxes] as his only income from his congressional salary, Fletcher turned a…

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Davis opposes anti-LGBT amendment

LGBT Weekly01 mins

The Armed Services Committee has approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would ban military bases from hosting marriages or “marriage-like ceremonies” between same-sex couples. Opposing the amendment, Rep. Susan Davis of California, the ranking Democrat on the armed services subcommittee on military personnel, said the amendment seems to encourage discrimination in…

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