Daily Archives: 06/23/2010

(Community Matters) Thinking of my dear, late friend Tom Henderson today, his birthday. Also thinking of Melissa and Michael. I miss Tom

(Community Matters) Gen. Stanley McChrystal, really?  This is bigger than between two men, or between two teams of men. Especially considering the warning after London, this is about the subordination of our military to civilian leaders, about respect, integrity & excellence. General McChrystal has got to go.

Rolling Stone article

(Community Matters) the current line being promoted by Karl Rove, Mark McKinnon, Karen Hughes &, now, Jeb Bush, that Pres Obama should own today’s problems and quit blaming Bush is bs. Bush came into office with a surplus, spent like a drunk sailor, started two wars & cut taxes for the rich. Left us with a $1.3 Trillion deficit on track to hit $8 Trillion. Of those unemployed today, the *vast* majority of those jobs lost at end of Bush admin and first 3 mos of O’s.

Even though in this article Jeb criticizes the blame – understandbly trying to rescue the Bush name – the end of the article indicates that even he knows it’s true.

(Community Matters) Spent yesterday morning in meetings with other LGBT activists – some DNC supporters, others detractors.  Senators Gillibrand and Sherrod Brown joined us briefly – Kirstin joining me for a short bit where we briefly discussed a current non-LGBT topic of interest. Gov Tim Kaine, the head of Ohio’s State Democratic Party’s LGBT caucus, the new national Stonewall executive director, a few unmentionables, DNC LGBT director Jaime Citron, DNC finance director Rufus Gifford, treasurer Andy Tobias and many others engaging the over subscribed group of 150+ in attendance.  We wrapped up with a much smaller lunch to discuss how the LGBT Council might be most effective going forward – good day and good group to appropriately push and pull our organization.