Daily Archives: 12/03/2009

(Community Matters)

Happy Birthday, Melissa

good gosh, I’ve known her most of her life

Love ya, Lis

(Community Matters) Breakfast yesterday morning with Tim Sulak who is running for State District Judge (353 District Court – the late Scott Ozmun’s bench).  Tim comes highly recommended by Russell Bridges and John Hildreth.  I’m impressed by his sense of duty, intellect and his history of judicial involvement – also by his list of supporters.

Supporters include David Butts, Becky Beaver, Elizabeth Christian, Rowland Cook, David Escamilla, Deborah Green, Ora Houston, Rep Donna Howard, Rebecca Lightsey, Susan Longley, Jim Martson, Glen Maxey, Mary Ann Neely, Rev. Parker, Mark Perlmutter, Paul Ruiz, Nancy Scanlan, Rob Schneider, Brigid Shea, Bruce Todd, Michael Whellan, Bill Whitehurst and Anne Wynne.

I was going to wait for the filing deadline to endorse anyone in these races but Tim is just too compelling a candidate, has lined up the right supporters and is working appropriately hard already.  Check out his website and I recommend him.

John Hildreth was unable to join us for breakfast.  His mother passed away yesterday morning

(Community Matters)  Leonard Pitts:

Among African Americans and Hispanics, Obama’s approval rating remains staggering – 91 percent w/ blacks and 70 percent w/ Hispanics – but just 39 percent among whites. Obama’s performance has been neither as execrable as the rating among whites would suggest, nor as walk-on-water miraculous as the rating among blacks and browns would have us believe. And that gap between them is less a measurement of a president’s performance than of a nation’s enduring irresolution.

I almost can’t believe these numbers, would like to know more about the source

If true, what do they tell us beyond what Leonard Pitts writes?

(Community Matters) Too coincidental that Steven would have an Amazon package lost and I would have a Barnes & Noble one derailed (now five days shipping vs three).  Appears some major systems crashes or errors underway at UPS

(Community Matters) Especially surprised by the margin of loss.  I’m still glad they tried and that they counted the votes.  My LGBT friends in NY now know who to support and who to organize against.

Isn’t a punch in the gut; we’re used to losing at the ballot box on this issue – still, much progress has been and will be made.

Popular votes nor legislative ones didn’t end racial discrimination and probably won’t end LGBT discimination – in the case of marriage, I still expect it will be the S. Ct first.  Given Kennedy’s Colorado opinion, I don’t dismiss his support.