Daily Archives: 01/06/2011

(Community Matters) Our Austin ADL executive director, Karen Gross, & board chair, Steve Adler, presented their state of the organization reports today, and we all couldn’t be more proud. Admittedly on the shoulders of great staff and chairs from previous years, Karen & Steve led us through a magnificently successful year –  number of schools, students & teachers participating in No Place For Hate; the new, intergovernmental Hate Crimes Task Force launched and facilitated by ADL; fundraising, friendraising and branding.

Today was my last ADL executive committee meeting. I resigned (as I have from PeopleFund, PeopleTrust & AARO boards) in order to make time to help with the President’s reelection.  Steven and I have made incredible life long friends through ADL.  I owe Mark Salmanson for inviting me into this group 5 or 6 years ago

(Community Matters) from Towleroad

Senator John McCain, DADT’ repeal’s fiercest opponent in the Senate, has adopted a new position.

The Hill reports:

McCain signaled that he had made peace with the lame-duck bill to do away with the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian service members, of which he had been an outspoken critic.

“I think I have to do everything I can to make sure that the important moral, retention, recruitment, and battle effectiveness of the military is minimized as much as possible,” McCain said on Fox Business. “It is a law and I have to do whatever I can to help the men and women who are serving particularly in combat cope with this new situation. I will do everything I can to make it work.”

Added The Hill…”McCain said he would do whatever he could to help implement the policy’s repeal.”