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riversedge

(70,220 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 02:59 PM Feb 2016

.@HumanRights Campaign working relentlessly in New Hampshire today for our next equality president.

Thanks for all your work


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Jonathan Shields ?@jonpshields 3m3 minutes ago

.@HRC working relentlessly in New Hampshire today for our next equality president. #603forHRC @HillaryforNH


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JudyM

(29,248 posts)
4. It is revolting that they are playing this this way.
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:34 PM
Feb 2016

Calling her more pro-LGBT than Bernie!? He was creating pro-gay legislation and ran on a pro-LGBT equality platform as a mayor decades ago and she just changed her tune with the political tides in the last few years!! Utter, utter BS.

They are pretending there is an LGBT issue here! and if anything votes should be for Sanders. So they are using their call lists to drum up support for the recently homophobic candidate. And to think I used to support them. I hope they lose a lot of supporters for pulling this transparently pay-to-play stunt.




dsc

(52,162 posts)
7. No he wasn't
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:57 PM
Feb 2016

He did two, count them two, acts that were pro gay as mayor. One was a Pride proclamation the other was a housing ordinance that included many categories. He made no effort, none, not even a single speech to try to pass employment or accomodation legislation. His state, less than two years after he was done being mayor passed that legislation with no help whatsoever from him.

JudyM

(29,248 posts)
8. Count them 2? Do you know of other mayors then who did even 1?! Plus he voted vs DOMA, against
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:02 PM
Feb 2016

DADT! He is and has been in our corner for decades so you can quit with your false implications. Utter BS.

dsc

(52,162 posts)
9. actually quite a few progressive cities had the laws he refused to advocate for
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:04 PM
Feb 2016

by the time he left office. Boston did, NYC did, Madison WI did, Minneapolis did to name a few. Heck even Miami had passed on in the 1970's but it got overturned in a referendum.

JudyM

(29,248 posts)
10. Example 1995. Where was Hillary on LGBT rights?! He was a staunch ally.
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:10 PM
Feb 2016

Here's Bernie standing up for us:

https://m.

dsc

(52,162 posts)
11. you claimed he was passing pro gay rights laws as mayor
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:16 PM
Feb 2016

he didn't, and that is what I said. As to this issue, Bill Clinton tried to eliminate the ban on gays, he got defeated by Congress, so he supported the bill as did Kennedy, Kerry, and a whole bunch of progressive stallworths.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. Hillary's I don't know doesn't pass the smell test
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:35 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary sat on the board for years while Wal-Mart was fighting unions and exploiting little girls at factories in third world countries.

As Brian Ross makes clear, she should have known.

Hillary carrying about children? Not so much in the case of Wal-Mart.

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