(CNN) — The Republican National Committee raised $7.2 million in April, one month after releasing its rebranding and outreach efforts following the presidential election loss in 2012. Last month’s cash haul brings the committee’s cash-on-hand total to $9.8 million, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced today. “Our number one priority at the RNC is taking our…
Obama\’s new LGBT ad Perhaps he hasn’t always been on your schedule or mine in terms of full-throated support for LGBT equality and civil rights. But, President Barack Obama has been (to paraphrase the popular myth that dubbed President Bill Clinton “America’s first Black President”) the closest thing to America’s first LGBT President. Consider this…
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate has quickly attracted widespread criticism from pro-LGBT organizations and individuals who support gay-rights. Ryan’s voting record in Congress – and his public remarks – make it clear that he does not support the dignity of LGBT Americans; a matter on which…
A poll of San Diego voters shows Bob Filner with a significant 8-point lead in the race for San Diego mayor. In a survey of 400 likely November voters in the City of San Diego, 40 percent of respondents support or lean toward Filner in the mayor’s race. Thirty-two percent of respondents said they support…
Blood may be thicker than water, but it won’t help Newt Gingrich get more votes now that his sister has announced she will vote for President Obama in the next election. “He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues,” Candace Gingrich-Jones told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Gingrich-Jones, 45, is…
