Posted on 11/15/2014 6:42:14 AM PST by massmike
A newly-elected Republican Congressman is facing criticism after hiring a same-sex "marriage" supporter as his first Chief of Staff.
Congressman-elect Tom Emmer is set to replace Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, when the 114th Congress convenes in January. Just days after winning the race, however, Emmer picked one of his campaign consultants, outgoing state Rep. David FitzSimmons, as his highest-ranking staffer.
FitzSimmons is one of four Republicans in the Minnesota House of Representatives to vote for same-sex "marriage" last year.
"The state has gone through a lot of controversy over this issue recently, and state Rep. FitzSimmons was a major player in passage of same-sex 'marriage,'" said Autumn Leva,Director of Policy and Communications for the Minnesota Family Council, "especially because he put forth an amendment that he said would protect religious liberty."
"However, as was shown when a hunting reserve said that they don't host same-sex 'weddings' but was forced to settle and pay for the same-sex ceremony, FitzSimmons' effort failed."
FitzSimmons said that the GOP must support marriage if it wants to win elections. "I don’t understand how a major political party who’s goal it is to get to 50 percent, plus one, can survive by dogmatically attaching itself to an issue that had 19 percent support by people under the age of 30,” he was quoted in a blog post discussing his loss.
"[T]he Republican Party has to decide if it wants to sacrifice everything else Republicans believe in, every other personal liberty issue, every issue on taxes and spending, every issue on life (abortion), to continue fighting gay marriage," said FitzSimmons, who also said the growing support for marriage redefinition in the GOP shows that “it’s not a successful short-term or long-term strategy for the Republican Party” to hold to the party's platform on marriage.
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Vote Republican!
Why even bother voting?
We won?
Yup, vote republican. Only question is do we bend over before or after we vote.
Apparently we forgot to ask what the prize was.
But I was told by the GOPe bots that we can totally hold their feet to the fire!
Nevermind that every single one of them surrendered less than 24 hours after the election.
Remember, vote Republican! Because it doesn’t damage the brand. Somehow.
First same sex. Next multiple spouses. Next pedophilia. Next beastiality. Who knows where the fall of America will end.
Enemies within.
Yet another example of why I have absolutely zero trust or faith anymore in anything to do with the GOP.
>>>”I don’t understand how a major political party who’s goal it is to get to 50 percent, plus one, can survive by dogmatically attaching itself to an issue that had 19 percent support by people under the age of 30,”<<<
Yet it doesn’t seem to matter that the VAST majority of the electorate doesn’t want obamacare, or amnesty, or flights going into and out of ebola-infested countries, or...
What about that, Fitzy?
What Difference does it make?
THIS is the Putz replacing Michele Bachmann?
Yes, we "won." Time to start surrendering.
It proves that republicans can be as immoral and dishonest as democrats. We are still on the wrong path.
We may soon learn how badly we’ve been DUPED...AGAIN!
The foundation is thoroughly corrupted, there is not much left to hold the new veneer covering.
I’m shocked. Just shocked, that a republican would act like a democrat. What next, republicans voting for amnesty?....oh, wait....
Bring back MB. Then again she was way too good for the currently sad sack of the state of minny soda.
GOP-e + DNC = same sect marriage-— but the voters are the ones getting screwed in the you know where.
Of all the States in the Country, Minnesota is the biggest mystery to me. They send people like Al Franken to the Senate and keep reelecting Democrats like the Governor. You would think that a State which has a heavy Agricultural economy and a very low minority population would gravitate to a conservative ideology. But no, every election they seem to validate the “Stupid Voter” axiom. Can’t figure it out.
“Of all the States in the Country, Minnesota is the biggest mystery to me.”
Doesn’t Minnesota also have a large population of Muslim immigrants?
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