Posted on 10/21/2004 8:26:05 AM PDT by watsonfellow
This post from gay patriot blog a pro gay republican guy who's upset at LCR
Thursday, October 21, 2004
GayPatriot Exclusive: Log Cabin GOP Political Director Unmasked As Former Edwards Campaign Operative In a major blow to the credibility of the national Log Cabin Republicans organization as a moderate voice in the Republican Party, newly discovered documents reveal that the person who manages the national Log Cabin political operation is, in fact, a long-time operative for the John Edwards Democratic Presidential campaign.
According to documents faxed to me yesterday (detailed in the section below), and corroborated by multiple sources, Log Cabin Political Director Christopher Barron headed up volunteer efforts for the John Edwards for President campaign for the Washington, DC area. Barron was hired by new Executive Director Patrick Guerriero as part of his management team. According to three different sources, Barron has separately confirmed his connection to the Edwards campaign in the past.
My sources further tell me that there may be two versions of Christopher Barron's resume. The version that was presented to the LCR National Board did not have any suggestion of Barron's past association with the John Edwards campaign. The hunt for Barron's original resume is now underway by at least one gay media organization.
In one of the documents obtained by GayPatriot, which was on the John Edwards for President Campaign's volunteer website as late as August 9, 2004, Chris Barron is on a list of Washington DC supporters with what appears to be a link to his email address.
In the other document, also from John Edwards' Presidential campaign's volunteer website and dated August 9, 2004, Barron is identified as "attorney, long time Edwards supporter (volunteered on his campaign for Senate in 1998)." That, of course, means that Barron's association with John Edwards and his campaign staff dates back to the hard-fought Senate race which resulted in the defeat of incumbent Republican US Senator Lauch Faircloth.
All mention of Chris Barron and his comments on the John Edwards for President website mysteriously vanished just days before the start of the 2004 Republican National Convention. During that time period, Guerriero and Edwards were attempting to work with moderates on the Republican platform committee to have a "unity plank" inserted into the GOP platform. It is entirely possible this effort was sabatoged because certain delegates found out that the lead political strategist for the national gay Republican organization was in fact a past operative of the 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. You don't send a Democrat in to do what should be the work of a real Republican.
There are other troubling questions from Barron's "official resume" posted on the Log Cabin website. Barron's job prior to joining Log Cabin was as a "consultant" to a small "litigation" law firm. It is an interesting to note that Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards is a trial attorney and at the time Barron's original comments were posted on the John Edwards campaign volunteer website, he was "consulting" for a litigation law firm.
Log Cabin's recent "non-endorsement" of President Bush based on "principle" is now also called into question. Is it possible that coordination between LCR and the Kerry-Edwards campaign intentionally engineered the "non-endorsement" as a way to suppress the votes this year of the supposed one million gay voters for Bush in 2000? Finally, the news that Log Cabin's political director may in fact be a Democrat-in-disguise raises serious questions about the true agenda and judgment of the new national Log Cabin management team. Just this week, news broke that LCR National cancelled the charter of a local chapter because that chapter endorsed a Republican! How hypocritical since that decision was defended by none other than former John Edwards operative, Christopher Barron.
The most disturbing question of all in my mind is why Log Cabin has only provided lip-service protest against the "outing" campaign and not launched an all-out assult against Michael Rogers? In fact, Rogers himself has claimed repeatedly that Log Cabin board members are helping him. Is it possible that Guerriero and Barron don't care about the gay Republicans being outed at all?
In fact, given Barron's past political history perhaps he is in fact sympathetic to Rogers' cause despite his public prounouncements of protest. If you are a Democratic Party sympathizer in what is supposed to be a Republican political organization who really cares if gay Republicans are being picked off and personally destroyed?
Questions That Still Need To Be Answered:
* What did Guerriero know and when did he know it? * To what extent was Barron's role in the John Edwards Presidential campaign? Was he paid? * What do the members of the LCR National Board and the LCR Chapter Presidents think of having a former John Edwards operative leading their political operation? * What leverage does LCR have within the Republican Party if it has been known of Barron's past political allegiance? * What do the Republican Congressional Members who are on the LCR Advisory Board think of the LCR political director being a former John Edwards operative? * Have the national Log Cabin Republicans political operation and the Kerry-Edwards Presidential campaign been coordinating activities or public statements and messages? * Is "Log Cabin Republicans" a Republican political organization at all anymore? -GayPatriot: gaypatriot2004@aol.com
posted by GayPatriot @ 8:16 AM
3 Comments:
GayPatriotsaloser said...
Hmmm...for someone so vehemently opposed to the outing campaign of Mike Rodgers over on BlogActive, you certainly don't seem opposed to exposing hypocrisy when it suits you. :)
9:32 AM GayPatriotsaloser said...
GP says: "Log Cabin's recent "non-endorsement" of President Bush based on "principle" is now also called into question. Is it possible that coordination between LCR and the Kerry-Edwards campaign intentionally engineered the "non-endorsement" as a way to suppress the votes this year of the supposed one million gay voters for Bush in 2000?" Hmmm, could it be that the President endorsed an amendment to the Constitution that would ban gay couples from every receiving equal treatment under the law? Besides the fact that any member of LCR is welcome to vote how he chooses when he walks into a voting booth. You certainly don't seem swayed by the LCR's decision.
9:35 AM GayPatriotsaloser said...
Hmmm, or could it be that George Bush is by far the worst "republican" President ever and actually not at all a republican by any stretch of the word. Fiscally irresponsible, largest increase in government bureaucracy in five decades, etc. etc. etc. So if he doesn't like gays and isn't very republican, how is it that the LCR is wrong for not endorsing him? I mean if they had instead endorsed John Kerry, I might question them, but they were incredibly appropriate to withhold an endorsement for Bush.
9:38 AM
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Have the Cabin boys ever came out with a PR release praising anything a republican president has done?
Wow! Homosexuals proving to be treacherous and morally unreliable! Who could have predicted THAT?
Dan
"Log Cabin Republicans"...
You mean... all THREE of them?
This just goes to show that LCR should be banned from ever appearing at a Republican event. They are shills for the Democrats....They should have no voice at any Republican gathering.
Wow! Homosexuals proving to be treacherous and morally unreliable! Who could have predicted THAT?
Dan
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What did you expect FROM ANYONE OR ANYTHING THAT BELONGS TO THE FAR LEFT FRINGE???
News flash: The Chocolate Log Republicans have their panties on inside-out.
If true the LCR are done.
Never trust the fudgcicle eaters.....
Maybe they enjoy the thought of projecting what they do to each other physically, to what Kerry will do to this country politically.
Well that's a good point. I used to think so what if Bush talked to them about lower taxes and stuff. Then I visited their website and saw their goal was to change the Republican Party. CHANGE! They only care about one thing, and that's why they formed a group around the cause.
The "ends justify the means" folk rise up again! We rely on character, they rely upon stealth and cunning.
If there were no God in heaven, they'd be the smartest. But since we know that there is a God and He rewards men according to their deeds, we can rest assured that in the end the truth will prevail. Seems as if it is beginning to burst forth at this moment, if I'm not mistaken, just in time for the electorate to see them for their hypocrisy.
LCR has always been done and the Bush-Cheney campaign figured out 2 year into their term that LCR was just a leftist Dem group trying to split the Republican Party. They have no credibility except with the media.
Sadly, there are no surprises here.
Big surprize.......NOT!!
They just confirmed what everybody already believes...the queer agenda trumps all else, politics, religion, patriotism, integrity, etc, etc, etc....
Yes, it's really, really shocking. Not like that loyal, stalwart Andrew Sullivan at all.
Well the idea that they were ever a 'moderate' voice is absurd.
Republican Homosexuals? Is that anything like brave Frenchmen?
I guess it's unfortunate, but my mind is reading this entire article with a mental lisp.
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