Cuomo Hypocrisy on Gay Rights Smells Like Polics | Observer

Contents:

• FOR YOUNGER CLASS OF POLIL OPERATIV, GAY RIGHTS ISSU OFTEN P THEM AGAST THEIR CANDIDAT
• MORE ON GAY MARRIAGE [LIZ MAIR]
• RPONDG TO STEPHEN ON GAY MARRIAGE [LIZ MAIR]
• LABOR GOOD, GAYS AND RPORAT BAD [LIZ MAIR]
• CUBA FOREVER, INDIANA NEVER: CUOMO HYPOCRISY ON GAY RIGHTS SMELLS LIKE POLICS
• FOR YOUNGER CLASS OF POLIL OPERATIV, GAY RIGHTS ISSU OFTEN P THEM AGAST THEIR CANDIDAT

FOR YOUNGER CLASS OF POLIL OPERATIV, GAY RIGHTS ISSU OFTEN P THEM AGAST THEIR CANDIDAT

WASHINGTON -- It's bee a polil tism to say that there is a generatnal divi wh rpect to gay rights, as pollg data bears out the fact that younger voters, even nservativ, are far more favor of same-sex marriage than their elrs.

MORE ON GAY MARRIAGE [LIZ MAIR]

And at some pot time -- more than two years ago -- he argued that the Republin Party should embrace the philosophil ncepts (and polil benefs) of gay adoptn and gay marriage.

And homosexual magoguery is not the answer to the Party’s wo, particularly when gay men and women reprent the only mographic which John McCa bted Print Bh (27% to 19% based on ex pollg). But, a Democratic source poted out, after Richardson signed up wh Barbour -- who has long opposed gay marriage -- his post was removed, replaced wh a “no rults found” msage. But the removal of Richardson’s post unrsr a far more tellg feature of the morn Republin Party: A large chunk of the GOP operative class has no problem wh expandg gay rights, but those staffers nohels work for ndidat who are prcipally opposed to such mov.

RPONDG TO STEPHEN ON GAY MARRIAGE [LIZ MAIR]

Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCa’s printial mpaign 2008, waed until after the electn to announce that he not only supports gay marriage but also believed the Republin Party would be better off supportg s platform. Bh -- which the prospect of gay marriage served as a key, divisive social issue -- me out of the closet only after removg himself thoroughly om mpaigns' top tiers, such iologil differenc are even more mon. While at that post, she shifted between the worlds of mentary, mpaign nsultg and issue advocy -- the latter of which land her a gig on the advisory board of the Republin group GOProud, which supports expandg gay Mair and other operativ, such jugglg has s benefs, not least of which is the sense of iologil liberatn that om beg off the trail.

LABOR GOOD, GAYS AND RPORAT BAD [LIZ MAIR]

”Ined, so far only a few ndidat the prospective Republin printial field have even hted an openns toward gay marriage.

CUBA FOREVER, INDIANA NEVER: CUOMO HYPOCRISY ON GAY RIGHTS SMELLS LIKE POLICS

Buddy Roemer said he was fe wh stat legalizg gay marriage, though he still supports the feral policy that f marriage as between a man and a woman. Chris Kofis, a longtime operative who helped enurage the retail giant Walmart to embrace polici of equaly towards gay employe, now serv as the chief of staff to Sen. A number of Whe Hoe staffers, meanwhile, adm private that they support gay marriage -- a posn that Print Barack Obama has kept at arm’s length.

FOR YOUNGER CLASS OF POLIL OPERATIV, GAY RIGHTS ISSU OFTEN P THEM AGAST THEIR CANDIDAT

Steve Hilbrand, Obama's openly gay former puty mpaign chairman, has walked a fe le wh rpect to urgg the admistratn to be bolr s gay rights agenda and openly cricizg s meekns.