[lbo-talk] The Outing; David Dreier and his straight hypocrisy

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Thu Sep 30 12:04:23 PDT 2004


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 at 10:40pm ThatRogersWoman wrote:


>
> We've had this situation in Houston with the last two
> mayoral elections. The GOP backed candidate, also
> personally endorsed by the Bushes (all of them), known in
> inner circles to be gay and in a long term relationship
> with the same man for years, was also a local mouthpiece
> for anti-gay legislation and derision. When the City of
> Houston considered domestic partner benefits for city
> employees, this candidate, then a councilman, announced
> that gay employees filing claims would have to be audited,
> because everyone knew that "there is a greater incidence
> of fraud among homosexuals!" This candidate was also an
> immigrant, and in keeping with his pattern of hypocracy,
> was a staunch supporter of many anti-immigrant
> initiatives.

Orlando is a cocksucker? Wow! I'd heard everything else about him including the fraud comment above, but not that. And to think, he's sometimes a substitute host and a frequent guest on KSEV and nobody on that station ever told me either! Dan Patrick just told me what a good Roman Catholic family values kind of guy he is...


> Attempts at outing him were squashed, and he didn't win anyway.

But it was pretty damn close. In a city where the 'Democrats' are business fellators of the first order, he was still incredibly conservative...

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