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HRC Utah holds annual gala in Salt Lake City [Bennett loss a setback for gays & lesbians]
Deseret News ^ | May 8, 2010 | Gina Barker

Posted on 05/09/2010 6:32:08 AM PDT by behzinlea

SALT LAKE CITY — Under the crystal chandeliers and molded ceilings of the Grand America hotel, an eclectic crowd mingled at the Sixth Annual Human Rights Campaign Gala. Drag queens in tall, yellow wigs wandered between state senators and congressmen and various members and supporters of the LGBT community . . . .

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. . . . John Bennett, the political co-chairman of Utah Steering Committee for [the Human Rights Campaign] and nephew of U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, rushed from the Republican Convention to the HRC Gala in the wake of the news that his uncle lost the Senate seat. Bennett is skeptical another Republican senator will be as receptive to HRC's [pro-LGBT agenda] as his uncle.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bennett; lgbt
Another reason to be happy that Bob Bennett was given a prospective "bum's rush" out of the Senate yesterday. He's been quietly advancing the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) agenda and is apparently much beloved by that herd of freaks-of-nature.

The article goes on to say that Bennett will likely still be in office when the vote to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is cast. Now that he no longer fears the voters, will this lame-duck RINO cast a vote for the rainbow and lavender crowd? Here's betting he does.

1 posted on 05/09/2010 6:32:08 AM PDT by behzinlea
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To: behzinlea

Support for this, amnesty and TARP is why he lost.


2 posted on 05/09/2010 6:39:14 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: darkangel82

This is the most dangerous kind of RINO—one that does his dirty work quietly and with a smile.


3 posted on 05/09/2010 6:42:42 AM PDT by behzinlea
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To: behzinlea

“Another reason to be happy that Bob Bennett was given a prospective “bum’s rush” out of the Senate yesterday. He’s been quietly advancing the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) agenda and is apparently much beloved by that herd of freaks-of-nature.”

Couldn’t have said it any better if I had tried.


4 posted on 05/09/2010 6:52:34 AM PDT by izzatzo
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Bump


5 posted on 05/09/2010 11:41:42 AM PDT by behzinlea
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