Republican Party sends last minute anti-gay, anti-Muslim mailer

Virginia is such a wonderful place. I mean, where else can you run for office, not address the real issues confronting the state, and just demonize your opponent and other citizens. Virginia State Senate candidate Jill Holtzman Vogel has joined other GOP sleaze bags and a mailer, with anti-gay and anti-Muslim overtones, is being sent by the Republican Party of Virginia on behalf of her campaign. The cards were sent to arrive in mailboxes less than one week prior to election day, November 6th, and after the endorsements of the areas largest papers. PageOneQ has the following highlights (http://pageoneq.com/news/2007/Republican_Party_sends_last_minute_antigay_antiMus_1102.html):

The mailer attacks Vogel's opponent Karen Schultz, criticizing her "liberal record" and usage of "image consultants" and "slick mailings." It goes on to highlight other candidates her consulting firm has supported, specifically writing about a Muslim man and a lesbian woman. Holtzman Vogel is running on a "pro-family" platform to represent Virginia's 27th district in the State Senate, garnering the support of the Virginia Conservative Action PAC and Laurie Letourneau, founder of Mass Voices for Traditional Marriage during her residence in Massachusetts. Letourneau left Massachusetts after it affirmed equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Meanwhile, Holtzman Vogel's husband Alex's lobbying firm has been paid $510,000 in the past three years, according to the US Senate's US Lobby Registration & Reporting Disclosure Page, lobbying for LGBT-friendly media giant Viacom.

I had an e-mail exchange some time back with Ms. Letourneau, and believe me, the woman needs serious medication. If Holtzman Vogel is in bed with Letourneau, she is a nut job herself.

On a related note, I previously posted about a GOP candidate that was misleading voters on his opponent's position on sex education. When I challenged the Republican Party of Virginia on it, I was advised by RPV via e-mail to my office e-mail address that (1) the mailer was "accurate factually," which it was not and (2) that the "sentiments accurately reflected the opinion of the members of the GOP in Virginia." Why the Log Cabin Republicans continue to work for a party that would happily exterminate them baffles me. The only way this crap will end is to have the GOP utterly crushed to a minority status so that either the Party ditches the wingnuts and Christianist or it remains in the minority permanently.