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Sammamish Planning Commissioner and Tanoor owner Wassim Fayed celebrated Pride the best way he knew how: By launching into a homophobic screed at a public meeting. On June 1, Fayed described queer people as “wealthy,” “well-connected” disease-spreaders who infest and “poison” the minds of children in schools and through movies and television. He invoked his faith-based belief that people choose to be gay against God’s intentions, which is ridiculous. Everyone knows we choose to be gay to please the devil. “I don’t believe LBGT should be part of the minority,” Fayed said. Sammamish Mayor Kali Clark said she’d save her...

The Democratic convention delegate and Clinton supporter who appears in the latest McCain ad saying she’ll vote for the Republican, Debra Bartoshevich, has been kicked out of the convention. Debra Bartoshevich is persona non grata at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, now that the former delegate from Wisconsin is the star of an ad in which she proclaims her support for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. In the TV ad, sponsored by the McCain campaign, Bartoshevich explains that while she was a “proud Hillary Clinton Democrat,” she is unhappy that Democrats are putting Sen. Barack Obama at the top...