Following up on David Mixner's call for new tactic is a story that has been covered by America Blog and Pam's House Blend among others that concerns how the DNC - headed by Virginia's soon to be former Governor, Tim Kaine who is no true friend to the LGBT community in my opinion - lied to LGBT organizations concerning its get out the vote and make phone call efforts leading up to Tuesday. A leaked email confirms that we are seen as easily duped and that we are taken for granted regularly. Besides doing nothing for the LGBT community, the DNC also feels that it can lie to us and we'll be too stupid to figure it out. With "friends" like this, who needs an enemy. Pam describes the situation as follows:*
I don't know about you, but at the very least, it's a peek at the kind the two-timing that goes on in national politics with constituencies they find "troublesome" or a perceived "liability" (save the $$$, of course). The difference is that the peek inside makes you realize how easily you've been had. In the case of LGBTs, it's a screw job over and over. They don't mind lying flat out, but catching them with their pants down usually hits a raw nerve.
John Aravosis at America Blog has this analysis of the macinations by the DNC which is also most telling:
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I think we just caught the DNC lying to the gay community about the election in Maine. And an email from DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias, which we quote below, proves it.
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We now know that what I was told was untrue. Or at the very least, it was purposefully misleading. Mainers were intentionally included in a broader email blitz that the DNC did, nationwide, to help Corzine's race. We know this because DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias admitted it in a lengthy email message to DNC donors yesterday.
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But more to the point, would the DNC have us believe that the aggressive intervention of the DNC and the President could not have helped sway the President's own voters to get out and vote against ballot measure 1, when they otherwise sat home? Clearly President Obama was able to motivate these extra 122,439 people a year ago, but we're to believe that he couldn't motivate them today? We only needed 26% of those people to turn out and help us. We got none of them. And we'll never know if the fierce advocacy of the DNC and the President would have helped, because they didn't even bother trying. And then they tried to mislead us, to boot.
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And finally, the DNC has concerns about getting involved in local ballot initiatives? Why? They did it last year under Howard Dean, when they donated $25,000 to the coalition fighting Prop 8's repeal of gay marriage. President Jimmy Carter did it in 1978, when he came out against the Briggs Initiative, that would have banned gays and lesbians from being teachers in California. But regardless, why does the DNC (and the White House) have a problem getting involved when a core Democratic constituency is having its civil rights taken away by the far-right base of the Republican party? We were promised that this administration would be our fierce advocate. Now all we get are excuses.
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And the DNC and the White House wonder why they have a growing problem with the gay community.
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We get pretty speeches and lies but no action. Yet we are supposed to give money, get out and vote and work on campaigns. For what? So we can be used and lied to again? We as a community need to stop letting ourselves be shamelessly manipulated and used.
I don't know about you, but at the very least, it's a peek at the kind the two-timing that goes on in national politics with constituencies they find "troublesome" or a perceived "liability" (save the $$$, of course). The difference is that the peek inside makes you realize how easily you've been had. In the case of LGBTs, it's a screw job over and over. They don't mind lying flat out, but catching them with their pants down usually hits a raw nerve.
John Aravosis at America Blog has this analysis of the macinations by the DNC which is also most telling:
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I think we just caught the DNC lying to the gay community about the election in Maine. And an email from DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias, which we quote below, proves it.
*
We now know that what I was told was untrue. Or at the very least, it was purposefully misleading. Mainers were intentionally included in a broader email blitz that the DNC did, nationwide, to help Corzine's race. We know this because DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias admitted it in a lengthy email message to DNC donors yesterday.
*
But more to the point, would the DNC have us believe that the aggressive intervention of the DNC and the President could not have helped sway the President's own voters to get out and vote against ballot measure 1, when they otherwise sat home? Clearly President Obama was able to motivate these extra 122,439 people a year ago, but we're to believe that he couldn't motivate them today? We only needed 26% of those people to turn out and help us. We got none of them. And we'll never know if the fierce advocacy of the DNC and the President would have helped, because they didn't even bother trying. And then they tried to mislead us, to boot.
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And finally, the DNC has concerns about getting involved in local ballot initiatives? Why? They did it last year under Howard Dean, when they donated $25,000 to the coalition fighting Prop 8's repeal of gay marriage. President Jimmy Carter did it in 1978, when he came out against the Briggs Initiative, that would have banned gays and lesbians from being teachers in California. But regardless, why does the DNC (and the White House) have a problem getting involved when a core Democratic constituency is having its civil rights taken away by the far-right base of the Republican party? We were promised that this administration would be our fierce advocate. Now all we get are excuses.
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And the DNC and the White House wonder why they have a growing problem with the gay community.
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We get pretty speeches and lies but no action. Yet we are supposed to give money, get out and vote and work on campaigns. For what? So we can be used and lied to again? We as a community need to stop letting ourselves be shamelessly manipulated and used.
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