Category Archives: Politics
Rove outspending Thompson in Senate race against Baldwin
Karl Rove’s conservative super PAC Crossroads has poured more than $7 million into opposing U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s bid to become the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate.
Baldwin edges into the lead
After trailing a popular former governor for weeks, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin has now edged into the lead for the U.S. Senate seat from Wisconsin.
House GOP shoot down effort to insert LGBT protections in VAWA
In a strict party line vote, Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee rejected three attempts Tuesday (May 7) to add protections for LGBT victims of domestic abuse in a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
Obama: ‘I think same-sex couples should be able to marry’
President Obama said in a White House-arranged interview Wednesday afternoon that “same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
Romney names gay to foreign affairs team
Republican presidential nominee apparent Mitt Romney has begun his run toward the political middle, and one aspect of that shift appears to have been the choosing an openly gay man to his team of campaign advisors.
Countdown to North Carolina: How Santorum is helping
Less than three weeks before voters in North Carolina go to the polls to cast a vote on same-sex marriage early voting has begun, an embarrassing sex scandal involving the state Democratic Party has burst into the national media.
Rosen in the hot seat over barb against Romney’s attitude toward women
Longtime Democratic and lesbian activist Hilary Rosen was in the proverbial political hotseat this week over a critique she offered Wednesday night regarding Republican presidential nominee-apparent Mitt Romney.
