Ileana still votes pro-life, but started voting pro-gay when Key West was added to her district in 2002 (she already represented South Beach, and I guess she felt she had to change her position. Key West was removed from her CD in 2012, but I guess she’s still acting as if she represented it.
Thank you both for the info on Ileana. I knew the South Beach area of Miami was/is pretty gay, but I didn't realize there was such a big homosexual population in Key West. Ugh...
It's possible she's still acting like Key West in her district. My theory on Mark Kirk vehemently opposing Hagel while gleefully rubber stamping much worse far-left Democrats (he was all giddy over Elena Kagan, for example) is that Kirk still thinks he's representing IL-10 and Jewish voters would retaliate if he supported Hagel, even though this is a non-issue for statewide officials.
My gut tells me it's something different with Ileana, though. She's always been a borderline RINO (her first year in Congress, 1990, she had a pathetic 65% rating from the ACU), with or without Key West, and is really only solid on pro-life and anti-Castro stuff.
AuH2ORepublican is right about Key West though. It's the San Francisco of Florida. My parents vacationed there 20+ years ago and have a story about going to a restaurant there where the waiter ignored my mom and pulled out the chair for my dad and brushed off the seat, attentively refilling his water glass and coming at his beckon call...