“The City Attorney threw his own legal staff under the bus yesterday. He said (after boasting of how broad it was) that he wouldn’t have have drafted it that broadly.”
No, it was written by an outside attorney doing pro bono work per other postings on FR. I’ve been asking why an outside attorney would be doing free work for the city. Although one freeper said it was in order to get bond work from the city, I’m inclined to suspect that a gay rights group volunteered to do in order to advance their agenda.
>> I’m inclined to suspect that a gay rights group volunteered to do in order to advance their agenda.
Agreed.
These pro bono lawyers that did the dirty deed should not remain nameless and faceless.
It would be interesting to counter-sue the city, and as part of the discovery process, learn their identity and their agenda.
Or maybe a freedom of information request would suffice.
When you sit and think about how this all started...someone wanting all public city bathrooms to be open to anyone (male bathroom open for ladies to use, and female bathroom for men to use)....someone intentionally led naive Democrats down a path for public embarrassment. It had to be planned out at least a year or two ago, and designed for maximum fall here in 2014 and 2016.
Lets say that they get past the initial stage and drag these ministers into court...figure spring or summer of 2015. The attention by the national media will be immense and likely televised across for forty million homes in the US. Latinos are the heart of the Democratic Party currently....but they are strong religious folks, and frequent churches. They will go against the party and divide the Party itself.
I would believe that various outside influences came into play early on, which had no city official grasping at what would occur. I think the drafting of this subpoena was also drafted by outside players. And I suspect that advice given to the mayor so far, has many outside groups playing this up.
It will all come to hurt the party in a serious way in 2016. If I had to pick an episode with such creativity for the Republicans....this is a five-star moment. All of this created....so that a hundred-odd people could pretend they were men today and go into the guy’s restroom, or men pretending to be women going into the women’s restroom. Even Harry Reid has to be shaking his head over this. He sure doesn’t want Barb Boxer coming into his restroom.