The Outing - David Dreier and his straight hypocrisy.

[Ganja Ninja]

by Doug Ireland

The latest target of a Capitol Hill outing campaign — designed to expose closeted homosexual Republicans who oppose civil rights for gay people — is San Gabriel Valley Congressman David Dreier.

The powerful 12-term congressman — chairman of the House Rules Committee, chairman of the California Republican House delegation, co-chairman of Californians for Bush, chairman of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team — is in the cross hairs of Mike Rogers and his Blogactive.com Web site, whose outing campaign has already forced one GOP congressman out of politics. Representative Ed Schrock, a reactionary from Virginia, ended his re-election campaign last month after Rogers put on his Web site an audiotape of Schrock trolling for tricks on a gay chat line.

Now, Rogers — a former development director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — has given Dreier the “Roy Cohn Award, in recognition of 24 years of working against gay and lesbian rights while living as a gay man yourself.” He is pummeling Dreier with almost daily revelations as a response to the GOP’s anti-gay crusade for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
Rogers’ campaign against Dreier got a major boost when it was taken up by Raw Story, the hot new liberal gadfly newsblog. Raw Story — which is edited out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 23-year-old John Byrne, who is also gay — last week published an interview with Dreier’s Democratic opponent in 1998 and 2000, Dr. Janice Nelson, who said she was aware during her 2000 campaign that Dreier was living with his chief of staff, Brad Smith. “Brad was like an invisible presence,” she said. “They really have the routine down slick.”
Nelson, a professor of pathology, says she came forward when she read on Raw Story that Hustler — the Larry Flynt magazine — was working on an exposé of Dreier’s secret gay life.

More here: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/44/news-ireland.php

[King Coal]

1. I hope he replaces Delay.

[Auntie Bush]

6. So we don't make a big stink till after he becomes M L then...

we go after him and distract from Rethug agenda...then maybe he will be forced out or hated by all those fundies. Right?

[King Coal]

10. That's what I'm thinkin' Auntie.

I love to bug Fundies.

[ourbluenation]

2. shhhh! if we make a big enough stink they won't make him majority leader

...and we can't have that! It's too delicious for words!!!

[Melodybe]

4. Roy Cohn was such a horrible person, Drier definitely deserves

that award.

[progressoid]

14. I'm not sure that this one will be kept quiet.

If true, this is the kind of thing the corporate media will devour.

Should be interesting.

[Oreo]

3. This could prove to be bigger than the Delay indictment

This will make the freepers implode once they find out.

Somebody in freeperland posted that Dreier is a closeted gay man and the thread was instantly pulled.

Nominated.

[Not Me]

5. Kicked, and nominated

[gulfcoastliberal]

7. Nominated. Excellent work to out hypocrisy.

nt

[Stinky The Clown]

8. This is now moot ..... Drier won't get the interim job

per msnbc at 3.40 pm edt.

That said, he am who he am, ain't 'e?

[tanyev]

16. Betcha' James Dobson or someone of similar ilk called

and threw a hissy fit.

[Infomaniac]

9. Nominated.

Excellent article. Isn't this the guy that "dated" Shrub's sister?

[MADem]

13. Yes, Bar was irritated that he didn't lay a hand on her

It's all in Kitty Kelley's book!

[lupita]

11. kick n/t

[deadparrot]

12. Popcorn, anyone?

:popcorn:

[merci_me]

15. Rightwing doesn't want him as Majority Leader

he's pro-choice and they can't have that.

[librechik]

17. Yep--5 hrs ago--Dreier 's the One! 3 hours ago, well maybe they'll share..

1 hr ago: Blunt is the One!

news travels fast on Capitol Hill...

[GalleryGod]

18. Drier lasted about 45 minutes ! The Caucas Dumped his Closeted Ass!

:banghead: Yea, Dav-id! :blush:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. Are Republican closet cases more likely to be severe reactionaries than

straight Republicans? :shrug:

[enough]

20. kick