Link to "The MOST OFFENSIVE Election Mailer EVER!! "

[DuaneBidoux]

I'm in Houston--our runoff election for mayor is today and one of the candidates is openly gay. Here is a mailer that one of the writers on DailyKos received apparently yesterday:

<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/11/813257/-The-MOST-OFFENSIVE-Election-Mailer-EVER!!>

[asdjrocky]

1. It's times like this that I just fucking hate America.

[Turbineguy]

2. What does the Mayor

have to do with sex?

It would seem to me that being Mayor of Houston would be a big job. No time to regulate what other people do in the privacy of their own homes.

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[krispos42]

4. Oh noes, teh h-h-h-hOMOsexual agenda iz comin' 4 me!

:eyes:

[TheBigotBasher]

5. This would be offensive if it was coming from a Republican

it is even more shocking when it comes from someone running as a Democratic candidate. On quick perusal, there is nothing like this bigotry on his site, but if this is a leaflet from his campaign it should earn him expulsion. There are levels of decency that NO Democrratic candidate should go.

Hate is hate and is has no part in a mainstream Political Party.

[DuaneBidoux]

8. Actually, I'm not sure it is coming from the democratic candiate.

If you notice the name (along concentiently I might add, the address and phone number) it turns out to be an individual city councilman. I won't give the information here in case that would get the thread locked, but if you go to the link in my op you can get his information (hell, Google even gives you a picture of his campaign office).

I am not sure that there is in fact not a link between this councilman and the dem other dem candidate, but I am not sure either.

Unfortunately I live in the larger metro area and so am unable to vote--I know who I would be voting for however!

[treestar]

6. gutsy to run for mayor of Houston

as a gay person. Though I suspect Houston is blue - it's the hinterlands where the fundies usually predominate.

[DuaneBidoux]

9. I think Houston is probably blue second only to Austin.

It certainly is one hell of a lot bluer than Dallas.

[rasputin1952]

7. Not long ago, the outcry would be that a candidate was black...

Gee, the nation has survived black elected officials. When will people realize that regardless of the area of bigotry...it's still bigotry. An individuals gender, religion, race or sexuality has nothing to do w/whether can they govern.

It is "interesting" that an individual who benefited from the Equal Rights movement, would use this to try and deny the same opportunity, or Rights, to another...x(

[HillGal]

10. The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is this

The majority of the black community doesn't equate the civil rights movement with the gay rights movement, and you can see in the polls, the majority in the black community are opposed to gay marriage. People need to start realizing this, when it comes to gay rights you're pretty much on your own struggling an uphill battle. :(

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. This is quite true...

I used to live in Cincinnati, and we saw this happen with Roxanne Qualls, a former mayor who ran for Congress in 1998. She should have won, but rumors of her being a Lesbian deflated her support in the African American community. Qualls has since married (a man).

And then there was the infamous Human Rights Ordinance, which specifically excluded the GLBT community from protection under any city-sponsored anti-discrimination ordinance. In the campaign to reverse this odious piece of legislation, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a confident of Martin Luther King, Jr., appeared in campaign commercials urging Cincinnatians to continue discriminating against gays and lesbians. It was really heart-breaking to see him used that way.

[HillGal]

12. We saw it last year in the proposition 8 campaign. NT

[HopeOverFear]

13. ah, still blaming that on black folks, eh?

Yeah, ok... :eyes:

[AspenRose]

17. And there are people still taking the bait.

Funny you never hear anything about hispanic Catholics feeling the same way. Or white Mormons.

Always the black folk.

[AspenRose]

18. Your clue should have been in "the REV. Fred..."

not in the fact he was black, but that he was a fundie.

Coretta herself was a supporter of gay rights.

The one common thread among those most vocal against gay rights is fundamentalist extreme right-wing religion.

Not race.

[AspenRose]

19. Plenty were talking about it post Prop 8.

But you probably knew that.

[HopeOverFear]

14. congrats to Houston's first open gay Mayor!

:)

[Blue_Tires]

15. that's way too tame compared to some of the stuff Jesse Helms put out

in his heyday...

[AspenRose]

16. I think I'm going to throw up.

*shaking head*