Anti-Gay NY Sen. Bill Stachowski Ousted In Democratic Primary

[WillParkinson]

Anti-Gay NY Sen. Bill Stachowski Ousted In Democratic Primary

NY Sen. Bill Stachowski, one of the eight Democrats who thwarted marriage equality in New York, has been ousted by Tim Kennedy, who had the backing of Fight Back NY, the Human Rights Campaign, and Empire State Pride Agenda. Via press release from Fight Back NY:

You did it! Tonight you helped Fight Back New York take down anti-equality state senator Bill Stachowski, who was defeated by pro-equality candidate Tim Kennedy in the primary election. When we announced Stachowski as a target, you pulled through with donations and support to send him home for good. With Stachowski now out, and with former state senator Hiram Monserrate's defeat back in March, you're two for two. Over the course of the past several weeks, you've helped Fight Back New York air a hard-hitting radio ad and drop 147,000 pieces of mail to thousands of targeted voters in Stachowski's district. Thanks to you, Fight Back New York's tactics are proving to be highly successful - and people are noticing. You're sending tremors throughout Albany and legislative chambers throughout the country. You've helped take out two anti-gay Democrats and replace them with two pro-equality senators. Starting tomorrow, we shift our focus to the November, and anti-equality incumbents are paying very close attention to where we focus our energies next.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/09/anti-gay-ny-sen-bill-stachowski-ousted.html

[David Zephyr]

1. Very good news.

:)

[customerserviceguy]

4. Nope

It's excellent. Let the Rethugs be the only place to find hate.

[RKP5637]

2. Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:toast: :toast: :toast:

[LiberalFighter]

3. Stachowski and other anti-gays are just not thinking it through. I say tough shit to them.

[gratuitous]

5. Are the rest of you down-ticket Democrats paying attention?

You're going to be an anachronism within the next election cycle or two if you don't get with the program and endorse the radical notion that gay people are citizens, too. Tax-paying, law-abiding citizens who entitled to equal protection under law, and who deserve all the benefits, privileges and responsibilities of citizenship that our society has to confer.

You can be on the train for civil rights or you can be under it. Your choice.

[RKP5637]

7. Good point! I think a lot of Americans are waking up to the fact gays are just

like them, not some strange misfits. And also they are realizing this country has far greater problems than maintaining a fetish about who sleeps with whom and where. It is a violation of civil rights.

[TheWraith]

6. I've actually met this guy.

Or I should say, stood there attempting to introduce myself while he walked away with a drink in his hand. He's an elitist and a dick.

[ruggerson]

8. One more bites the dust n/t