Anyone Know Where Governor Lynch Was Last Weekend?

Dateline Miami: It's Miami, this years four-day staycation destination for governors in hock to Tim Gill and Political Outgiving. 

Last year New Hampshire Governor John "out of state political money is bad" Lynch was outed for attending the 'secret event' in Chicago.  It was later divulged (under duress I suspect) that he just gave a lunch speech and was not there to fund raise.  He must have left that part out of the speech.  Many of the wealthy attendees at the conference--none of whom live in New Hampshire--collectively coughed up over $100,000.00 for Governor Lynch's re-election campaign in the usual fashion;  individual, personal contributions, over a number of weeks or months so as not to attract suspicion.  But no, he wasn't fundraising.

This year the event was in Miami from March 3rd to the 6th, and once again, it's all about secrecy.  To some peoples credit, there are a few folks in the gay community (here, here, and here) who object to the Gill Foundations ongoing obsession with the secrecy of this annual conference; no press, secret guest list, no agenda, and no transparency.  It bothers them and it should. They decide what states and elections to "invest" their millions in to advance their agenda.  Not everyone is privy to that agenda and this bothers some folks.

But that's not my problem.

I'm wondering where New Hampshire's governor was between the 3rd and 6th of March 2011?  Was he somewhere in New Hampshire, or off on other business?  Maybe dropping off a Hallmark card of thanks?  The donors from Political Outgiving ponied up about 10% of the Lynch campaign haul for 2010.  Sometimes an email or a phone call just isn't enough.

So no idea if Lynch was there but one thing I do know, selling the lifestyle as a "right" is on the back burner. They (the gay lobby) have a new political campaign, and Mo Baxley from NH Freedom to Marry just used it on March 3rd. It is all about implying shared values.   The New narrative is LOVE.COMMITMENT.FAMILY.

March 3rd, AP (day one of the conference by the way)

Mo Baxley, executive director of New Hampshire Freedom to Marry, said that as people live with the law they realize it has no impact on their lives.

"They understand that gay and lesbian couples share the same values of other couples, like love, commitment and family," she said.

Eugene Sepulveda, reporting/blogging from the 2011 Outgiving conference in Miami...

LOVE.COMMITMENT.FAMILY – this is how we need to lead going forward. Others don’t connect with rights & benefits as well.

Interesting timing.  Revealing admission.  "Others don't connect with rights & benefits as well."

So get used to it.  You'll be hearing that a lot from the gay activists from now on.  At least until next year.

Maybe we'll even hear it from John Lynch.

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More Gay Lobby Lunch Money For Lynch

Mr. "Don't let Out of State Money Corrupt Local New Hampshire Elections" himself, Governor John "The Hypocrite" Lynch, is the willing recipient of over 100,000.00 in gay activist out of state money in direct contributions to his campaign.  He's also most certainly getting it through the back door from Ray Buckley and the NHDP's many spigots, the HRC, and others.

As if that wasn't enough of an integrity killer, Lynch has now just received at least another $7,000.00 dollars from out of state gay activists in his latest campaign finance documents.

Lynch needs the money.  He loaned himself another $350,000.00 in the same report, according to the Concord Monitor.  So he has loaned his campaign a total sum of $850.000.00 dollars in this one election.

But Lynch has only raised 1.12 Million for the general election with his own loans.  Take the loans out and he only has 350,000.00 from sources other than his own checkbook.  Thirty five percent of whats left is from one special interest; gay marriage activists from Tim Gill's Political Out Giving, the group he secretly slithered off to, to give a luncheon speech back in May.  After he got caught, he insisted it wasn't for political contributions.

Talk about integrity collapse.  This is a guy who publicly whined about the national organization for marriage running an ad in which they told the truth about his flip flop on gay marriage, and now he's gotten up to 35% of all his campaign funding (other than personal loans) from Tim Gill's out of state same sex marriage millionaires. 

These are wealthy individuals who make private direct contributions to candidates, or contribute through groups like NH HRC or other front groups (who then funnel that money directly to the NHDP in the case of New Hampshire) so it harder to trace them and their agenda.  And what is their agenda? Their sole purpose in donating it to hide out of state single issue contributions meant to manipulate local elections to advance their fringe agenda.

So John Lynch is a liar, and a hypocrite.  Still.

Gay Lobby activist donors so far from his most recent campaign finance report.

Hoff Edwards         Cambridge        MA     $1000.00

Elmendorf Steve    Washington      DC     $1000.00

Offutt Christi         Fargo               ND     $1000.00

Ricketts Laura       Chicago            IL      $1000.00

Offutt Ryan           Fargo               ND     $1000.00

Heifetz Mel            Philadelphia     PA     $1000.00

Snyder Brian          New York          NY     $1000,00

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Reid Wasn't Looking To Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Yahoo! News has a morning headline titled "How Democrats Lost 'Don't Ask' Repeal."  (You can read it here).  It focuses almost entirely on the "Don't Ask" repeal provision and to some degree on the tactics that epitomize Ried's Senate antics.  He takes a defense authorization bill, adds Don't ask don't tell, then stuffs amnesty for illegal immigrants into it, and then refuses to allow Republican amendments.

The article,  and most of those that I have seen on the subject, all focus on the failure to repeal "Don't Ask" as if that were actually the point.  But this had nothing to with that. It was a tactical political media ploy.  Think about it.

Repealing "don't ask" has support in the Senate.  There are more than enough RINO's to advance the measure.  Placing it in a defense funding bill--given that it is related to military policy--is not even far fetched.  But Reid then stuffs the unpopular DREAM act in there as well, a measure that creates amnesty for illegal immigrants, when the majority of America is against amnesty and a majority of Republicans are against the DREAM act.

He then refuses to let them submit amendments?

This forces the republicans to balk at the measure, either on parliamentary grounds or because it includes DREAM, guaranteeing that the repeal of Don't Ask Don't tell is doomed.  The press picks up on the more widely accepted social issue, sells it as a republican blockade, and regurgitates it without seriously addressing the larger problem.

Reid didn't fail at all.  This is exactly what he wanted.  And the press is carrying his water, just as he knew they would, weeks before an election where democrats are doomed to be relegated to the minority.

And according to Yahoo! News at least, there are no plans to bring this back up anytime soon.  So Reid wasn't looking for repeal, he was looking to dominate a news cycle, re-frame a narrative, and just used one of his favored grievance classes as bait. 

Cross Posted at Granite Grok

John Lynch Gets What's Been Coming

Blogging can be a weird hobby.  You never know when something you've planted will grow and bear fruit.  But back on May 28th of 2010 I planted this seed. It was about Mr. Lynch going to the Political OutGiving conference.

In the intervening months I planted a few more, here, and here, and here.

There were others doing their own sowing and tending, and they deserve plenty of credit, because today we find out thanks to Cornerstone Policy that John Lynch's most recent campaign finance report has at least $100,000.00 worth of donations from promiant Gay activist donors.

So maybe I should start asking John Lynch where that missing speech is he gave while he was in Chicago at the Gay Donor Confab?  It was worth at least 100k, probably more.  We still don't know who all the donors are so we have no reason to believe that there isn't more money--not just in names on the Lynch filing , but pouring in through the NH democrat party, into groups that then donate to Lynch.

Whatever the final talley, Lynch and Buckley can eat some crow while we ponder the ramifications of out of state special interest meddling (when he said he was against that) and a governor who flip flopped on a key issue which the gay donors may have--just may have been paying him to flip on.

A governor who can be bought.  That makes for great TV. 

Cross Posted at Granite Grok

Homo Depot

Homo is considered a derogatory term in the gay community (though I beleive Gay Anthropoligists get a pass) so I called up an old friend of mine and asked him for permission to use it.  He's not an anthropologist if it matters.  He asked why and I told him.  I said, “Home depot promoted the gay lifestyle in a parade of some sort, but at about the same time wouldn’t let a guy who works in one of their stores wear a pin on his apron that said “One Nation under God.” (I’m paraphrasing)

“Frikkin Homos!” He said. (Not paraphrasing)

He is a Christian, and a Patriot, and he’s gay, and he supports the Tea Party, and the military (and he's not a democrat) and is far more diverse and tolerant, and certainly more equal than those “homo’s” at Homo Depot.  He also asked that I not name him because, and I quote, "some homo might give me s*i* for it if they ever read it and he’s got more of that than he can handle at the moment." 

I guess election season has been rough on him.  I don't know.  He didn't want to explain it, and to be honest, I didn't want to know.  Sort of our own little "don't ask don't tell policy."

So permission at hand I have embarked on this blog to point out that…Homo Depot is more than welcome to support whomever the hell they please in whatever peaceful and legal means they deem appropriate.  It’s their company and their money.  If they want to support the LGBT community they are more than welcome to do so.   Of course I should point out that it adds a whole new dimension to the slogan "You can do it.  We can Help."

And if someone in at least one store, or even the company as a matter of policy, has an issue with their American employee wearing a pin that quotes a part of the Pledge of Allegiance, well that's up to them as well.

(It does make you wonder what would happen if he wore a pin with the term “Tea Bagger” on it?) 

Anyway, I’ve no problem with a business setting that standard as long as they have no problem with my thinking they are being a bit off balance.  I’m also assuming they are OK with my taking several thousand dollars a year worth of business to a competitor as my little way of pointing out their hypocrisy.

I’m sure the Homo’s don’t really care, and who knows, they may become the Provincetown of the home improvement world—and more power to them if they do.  (The kids condoms are probably in plumbing.)  But until I hear about some real tolerance—and perhaps a bit of respect for employees who are family members and friends of veterans that want to wear a pin or anything simple like that to show their respect for the men and women in the military who may or may not be gay, (and oh heck, while I'm at it, an off-hand generic reference to some non-denominational divine being), Homo Depot can pretend to be as diverse and as tolerant as they want but it just isn’t so.

Cross posted at Granite Grok