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COMING TOMORROW: FRANKEN ADMITS HE STAYS AWAY FROM TALKING ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE WHEN HE CAMPAIGNS IN GREATER MINNESOTA
By Michael B. Brodkorb | February 12, 2008
In a video clip I'll be posting tomorrow, Al Franken admits that he doesn't start out talking about gay marriage when he campaigns in greater Minnesota. It will be interesting to see which Al Franken comes to your town. Is it the Al Franken who's not afraid to talk about gay marriage, or is it the Al Franken who won't talk about gay marriage? Check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed tomorrow morning for the clip.
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate, Al Franken, Mike Ciresi, Norm Coleman
Topics: 2008 U.S. Senate, Al Franken, Mike Ciresi, Norm Coleman | 4 Comments »
4 Responses to “COMING TOMORROW: FRANKEN ADMITS HE STAYS AWAY FROM TALKING ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE WHEN HE CAMPAIGNS IN GREATER MINNESOTA”
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February 12th, 2008 at 8:16 PM
I didn’t know gay marriage was more important to greater Minnesota, then say jobs, health care, safe roads and bridges.
I don’t think any candidate starts off talking about GLBT rights unless they are addressing GLBTs.
NO he is the Al Franken who will, unlike Norm Coleman, vote for GLBT civil rights.
Didn’t we go through this several weeks ago.
Log Cabin?
Happy Birthday ABE
February 12th, 2008 at 9:25 PM
HCDFL, most democratic candidates avoid gay issues like the plague when they are addressing mainstream audiences. This makes their commitment to such issues suspect. They don’t have similar problems talking about issues related to unions or farmers. This suggests that though Democrats like to use gays for an ATM, they aren’t going to do much for gays.
In this case, Al Franken was responding to a comment from someone whose mother was gay – or something like that.
Gay people who believe what candidates say when they are speaking to a gay audience are fools. The real story is what they say to a mainstream audience, and what they say on the record.
Al Franken has no information on his website on these issues on the issues page:
http://www.alfranken.com/content/issues
It will be interesting to see what Norm Coleman will do on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act – it is likely to come up prior to the election. It will also be interesting to see what President Bush does on the matter. If Coleman votes against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, it suggests he favors discrimination against gays.
Personally I hope this will be an up or down vote. I’d like to see the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell come up this year – but that’s dubious. By the way, Amy Klobuchar currently is not willing to sign on to a bill to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Klobuchar got lots of money and the endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign. Did they screen on this issue? In other words, did she say she supported repeal, then lie about it?
February 13th, 2008 at 7:37 AM
Gay people who continue to vote for candidates such as Franken and Klobuchar deserve what they get, which is nothing but lip service.
At least you will get the truth from conservatives, even if you don’t agree with it. I guess the gay community would rather be lied to and look stupid.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:35 PM
The problem is that gays get Republicans trying to exploit anti-animus for political gain. (Why does the decline of the family have anything to do with gay people? Why aren’t straight people taking some personal responsibility for their own behaviors here?) Then there are the Democrats giving lip service, but doing nothing – and saying the Republicans are worse. I think it’s similar to Norm Coleman’s message to conservatives – that is, you don’t want Al Franken. Well both gays, and the conservative base in the Republican party gets tired after a while of being treated like cheap dates.
The professional gay organizations – especially the over funded Human Rights Campaign, really needs to explain themselves with respect to Amy Klobuchar. Either they didn’t ask Senate candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 2006 – or Amy Klobuchar lied to HRC on this topic. The same question applies with Stonewall DFL.