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The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego)."Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
--"Joe"
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Tonight the second quarter of 2009 draws to a close, and it's a significant point in the 2010 campaign cycle. This is the point at which a lot of folks who are considering maybe possibly getting into a race take a hard look at their fundraising, and either throw their hat in the ring, or throw in the towel. This is also the point at which challenger candidates examine the funds that incumbent candidates have on hand -- and decide whether the incumbent's war chest is so formidable that s/he can outspend the challenger and own the election, or whether that incumbent looks vulnerable to a challenge. Since I donated more than I should have in the 2008 election cycle, this means I'm getting fundraising emails and requests from all over the friggin' place, because people are scrambling to make those second quarter numbers look as flush as they possibly can. Below the fold, you'll read my response to every request. |
| ElsieElsie :: My boilerplate response to Democratic campaign donation requests |
This is an example response to an entreaty received from Darcy Burner, a former challenger candidate in Washington's 8th Congressional District to Republican Congressman Dave Reichert (she lost twice, but I believed in her campaign enough to donate). She's now part of a political action committee called "Electing More and Better Democrats". She emailed me the following:
We talk a lot about wanting representatives who will display courage and conviction. But the real test of that isn't what they do when it's easy - it's what they do when it's hard.
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives stood with President Barack Obama and passed the Waxman-Markey energy bill, the most significant climate change legislation in history.
Six courageous freshmen members of Congress in very tough districts who risked their chances of re-election because their convictions will lead them to vote in a way that is politically damaging to them.
If you're a progressive in a marginal district,
voting no is the smart move. It gives the Republicans no ammunition against you. When gas prices are sky-high next summer, they can't say it's because you voted for a huge tax increase on energy. And you can say to progressives that you did it because this bill wasn't good enough; you're covered coming and going.
Six courageous freshmen - Tom Perriello, Dan Maffei, Betsy Markey, Steve Driehaus, Martin Heinrich and Ben Chandler stood up and cast that right vote - for a bill where President Obama and Speaker Pelosi needed each and every vote. And in those marginal districts, where we don't have the concentrations of environmentally-minded voters present in places like the district I ran in, that argument will carry weight.
We talk a lot about wanting representatives who will display courage and conviction. But the real test of that isn't what they do when it's easy - it's what they do when it's hard. Voting yes on this bill in a marginal district is hard, and clearly about choosing to do what's right over doing what would protect you politically.
There's a filing deadline tomorrow on June 30. I've just dropped $1000 I can't really afford into trying to help these members of Congress. I'm also proud to serve as Honorary Chair of a new PAC - More and Better Democrats - who are going to work hard to get this new breed of candidate of conviction elected - and KEEPING them elected.
Will you help me?
My response:
I know this is a mass email blast, Darcy, and I have no idea where this email will end up.
As much as I want to elect more and better Democrats, my money has to go somewhere else...to organizations fighting for my civil rights. I'm gay, you see, and I donated what I could to many Democrats this past 2008 cycle (including to your campaign) in the hope that, finally, the Democratic party would live up to the promises made to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people like me this round and help us fight for equality. I also (like my husband) donated more than I could afford to fight Proposition 8, which no federal Democrat stood vocally to fight. The response from that level was somewhere between meaningless and pathetic.
I can't say I've resoundingly seen moves that show any promise that Democrats will fight for people like me on the federal level, and I have gone back to expecting nothing from your party, because that's the best way to avoid disappointment.
Like many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans, I have come to the realization that I have to own the fight myself, and I have to take the fight to the local and state levels where people have shown some willingness to stand with us and fight on our behalf. That being the case, what resources I can donate to political efforts will go to organizations like Maine Freedom to Marry, the Courage Campaign, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and OneIowa.
While I will still most likely vote Democratic -- few will be the Republicans willing to espouse positions I find palatable in this political climate -- and I applaud your efforts to elect more and better Democrats, I cannot donate time or money to your PAC or those candidates at this time. If and when more and better Democrats follow through on the promises they have made to people like me, enacting widely popular federal-level legislation like a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and no longer treating my civil rights like a third rail, I will be delighted to again donate time and money to your cause.
Thanks for working to make the world a better place. I believed greatly in your congressional campaigns and wish you had beat Reichert.
The gAyTM is closed. I didn't have much to donate, but what I had is going where I know it will be put to best use.
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