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- Latest post made by Jack Rowe at Jun 10 15:24 UTC
KFUN radio just announced some of the unofficial winners of
yesterday's election:
Ben Ray Lujan (District 3 Rep.)
Thomas Garcia (State Rep.)
Richard Vigil (State Rep)
Jerome Block (PRC)
Matt Sandoval (District Judge)
Melanie Rivera (San Miguel County Clerk)
pat leahan
How nice to see absent from this list the name of the 'man' doing the recent
electoral gay-baiting, what a thought to think that perhaps we as a culture are
beginning to tire of racism, sexism, gender-ism and all the other petty,
reality-obscuring -isms that our insecurities have always seemed to need in the
past.
Hurray for being who we are!
One suggestion ... if you know anyone who ran for office who is not on this
forum, extend them a personal invitation.
Unlike anonymous forums that scare the heck out of politicians, our real name
format seems to encourage more useful and effective discussion of local issues.
In most of our communities most elected officials monitor the forums and ~20%
will post when it makes political sense at least once a year.
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
Sheesh... Jay Maiorana informs me that Mr. Shendo came to LVPJ Center and gave
a plausible alternate explanation for his comments... If Mr. Shendo was not
gay-baiting, I owe him an apology (as does his opponent, I suppose). I guess
moving from gay-baiting to doing damage by claiming gay-baiting is some sort of
progress? Damifino.
I'm both too naive AND too cynical to even be paying any attention at all to
politics, much less making noise thereabouts.
Plausibility is in the eye of the beholder - and sometimes in the eye of
the koolaid drinker.
I have heard/read Shendo's spin, and spin is what it is. He was
queer-baiting Lujan and that's all it ever was. Tortured arguments about
how it was in the interests of young LGBTs everywhere are disgustingly
dishonest - we know we live in a homophobic society, and attempting to
out one's opponent in the midst of a political race is not progressive,
but rather homophobic, opportunistic or both.
Lee
Jack Rowe wrote:
> Sheesh... Jay Maiorana informs me that Mr. Shendo came to LVPJ Center and
gave a plausible alternate explanation for his comments... If Mr. Shendo was
not gay-baiting, I owe him an apology (as does his opponent, I suppose). I
guess moving from gay-baiting to doing damage by claiming gay-baiting is some
sort of progress? Damifino.
>
> I'm both too naive AND too cynical to even be paying any attention at all to
politics, much less making noise thereabouts.
>
Well there's little certain in this life, but one thing I'm sure of is that we
humans are a goofy bunch, there's just no way around it. I would not personally
trust any human in a position of authority, we're all capable of trashing our
own affairs and need little help.
I still apologize, for breaking my own rule and failing to politely ignore
politics and politicians, as I would attempt to do if a guest's dog pooped on
my rug. Pretty apt analogy, I'm afraid.
We can't get rid of politicians, they have a right to exist also... but if we
could just find a nice little island somewhere...