All Entries Tagged With: "Martha Coakley"
Political shock in Mass. as Brown claims Kennedy’s seat
Republican Scott Brown secured a victory Tuesday in the Massachusetts special election, leaving many LGBT activists stunned and angry over the loss of the filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate and wondering whether the LGBT agenda can advance in Congress. Brown, a state senator, won his bid to capture the seat previously held by [...]
Pinup boy wins a Senate seat
Massachusetts voters stunned political observers Tuesday by electing former pinup Scott Brown to replace Sen. Edward Kennedy. Brown overcame a double-digit lead by milquetoast candidate Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, to become the junior senator from Massachusetts. As a Maryland resident, I had a front row seat to what I’d considered the worst campaign [...]
NOM e-mail blast urges vote for Brown in Mass. election
The National Organization for Marriage on Monday sent out an e-mail blast to supporters encouraging a vote for Republican Scott Brown because of the candidate’s history of opposition to same-sex marriage. Apparently following up on reported anti-gay robocalls the organization sent out to Massachusetts residents over the weekend, NOM’s e-mail urges a vote for Brown in the Tuesday special [...]
NOM robocalls attack pro-LGBT Mass. Senate candidate
The National Organization for Marriage is apparently sending out robocalls in Masschusetts smearing a pro-LGBT Democratic Senate candidate for supporting same-sex marriage and encouraging a vote for the Republican nominee in an upcoming election. A supporter of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley recently relayed to DC Agenda a message from someone who said they received a robocall from [...]
Rewind: Week of Jan. 15
The big LGBT story this week was the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Elsewhere, from Bozeman, Mont., to Beijing, China, our community and allies also fought discrimination, persecution and marginalization, winning some and losing a few. On Monday, just before the Prop 8 trial was about to commence, [...]
Gay left smears GOP Senate hopeful Brown
Special to DC Agenda Next Tuesday, voters in Massachusetts will go to the polls for a special election to replace U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D). Recent polling shows Republican State Senator Scott Brown in a virtual tie with Democrat Martha Coakley. As the polls get closer and closer, Democrats and their allies on the left [...]
Could an anti-gay Republican take Kennedy’s seat?
The race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate could be tightening up as one recent poll shows an anti-gay Republican running even with the pro-LGBT Democratic candidate. A poll published Saturday by Public Policy Polling shows state Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP candidate vying to succeed Kennedy, one point ahead [...]
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