Posted on 09/22/2004 6:14:26 PM PDT by politicalvanguard.com
The latest target of a Capitol Hill outing campaign — designed to expose closeted homosexual Republicans who oppose civil rights for gay people — is San Gabriel Valley Congressman David Dreier.
The powerful 12-term congressman — chairman of the House Rules Committee, chairman of the California Republican House delegation, co-chairman of Californians for Bush, chairman of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team — is in the cross hairs of Mike Rogers and his Blogactive.com Web site, whose outing campaign has already forced one GOP congressman out of politics. Representative Ed Schrock, a reactionary from Virginia, ended his re-election campaign last month after Rogers put on his Web site an audiotape of Schrock trolling for tricks on a gay chat line.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
Ah more clean issues oriented politicking from the Left.
This was already posted. Nobody cares.
Maybe the congressman, though possibly homosexual, doesn't believe in SHOVING HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCE down the throats of America! Maybe, just maybe, he believes that being homosexual is a private matter and SHOULD STAY THAT WAY!
Dreier is a good guy. This story tells us more about the hate-filled left than anything else.
Easy with the capitals. Someone who didn't know better might accuse you of being hysterical.
I'd read this but I assume the LAWeekly is the same as the SeattleWeekly: hate-filled leftist drool.
Attending the 2004 GOP Convention in New York, Dreier refused to confirm or deny rumors that he is gay. Nonetheless he has become the subject of increasing criticism for his voting record on a number of key pieces of anti-gay legislation, including the Defense of Marriage Act and the Federal Marriage Amendment, as well as legislation that would prohibit gays and lesbians from adopting.
In their criticism of Dreier, gay rights groups, who claim to have proof of Dreier's sexuality, including knowledge of a long-time relationship with his Chief of Staff Brad Smith, suggest that Dreier has courted conservative support, especially from the Christian Right, and has adopted an anti-gay posture in order to conceal his sexuality.
In the Bush family biography "The Family," by Kitty Kelley, Barbara Bush is reported to have been upset that her daughter Doro, a divorcee, had made little progress with Dreier even after a year of dating. "Never laid a hand on her," the former first lady complained about Dreier.
Critics point to Dreier’s ability to conceal what some say has been an open secret in California due, in part, to the unwillingness of Dean Singleton, Vice-Chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group, which publishes more than a dozen local newspapers in Dreier’s district, to publish stories that allude to his sexuality.
In an attempt to lend credence to the rumors, Hustler magazine claims to have “struck gold” while conducting an investigation for an upcoming article on Dreier during the recent Republican National Convention.
---from an Internet "Encyclopedia" site, this is the first that I had heard about Dreier being gay.
Your point BEING ...?!
Everything you is worthless unless you provide a link to a credible source.
But assume the guy is gay - the point is that you're the only person who cares.
" Raw Story has provided some fascinating details about Smith (Dreier's live-in boyfriend and former campaign manager). It appears that he is the highest-paid chief of staff to any House committee chair. Smith’s $156,600 salary is just $400 less than that of White House chief of staff Andy Card and Bush political commissar Karl Rove. By comparison, the chief of staff to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee makes $126,000, while the chief of staff to the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee makes just $100,696. New Jersey Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey was recently forced to resign when it was about to become public that he had put his boyfriend on the public payroll at a salary slightly less than the one which Dreier pays Smith."
Who the hell cares? Drier doesn't make a big deal of it.
What do you expect to get from a free newspaper? That left wing rag isn't exactly full of journalistic integrity.
Nobody's going to "run" with that. Drier can pay his chief of staff whatever he wants.
And if nobody here cares, then nobody on the right, except maybe Jimmey Swaggert, cares.
I notice that the only people hassling him now are lefties, and the TV exposure they threaten him with would come at the hands of Chrissie Mathews, not exactly nonpartisan.
So9
My point being don't use capitals, unless you wish to present yourself to others as an easily excitable person.
"doesn't believe in SHOVING HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCE down the throats of America!"
Throwing some gasoline on the fire?
He should have told them that it was none of their damned business!!
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