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Log Cabin Grassroots Crackdown Continues…

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**UPDATE at 2:10PM**
Outgoing Log Cabin Political Director Chris Barron has responded to this posting with the following statement: “”DJ Register turned the LCR NC list-serve over to me, not LCR Nationals. I never asked to become the owner of this list-serve. Mr. Register said he was “quitting” and turning it over to me. As the new owner of the list-serve I changed the settings to reflect that I was the owner of the list-serve, not Mr. Register. These changes had nothing to do with any criticism from DJ Register. The changes certainly weren’t ordered or asked for by anyone at Log Cabin.

The LCR NC list-serve is in no way related to Log Cabin. It’s just a yahoo group. If Mr. Register had experienced any problems posting any materials on this list-serve he certainly never brought them to my attention. Mr. Register continued to post regularly on the LCR NC list-serve, and did so without any interference from me, regardless of what he posted. This, quite honestly, seems more than a bit dramatic, considering we are talking about a yahoo group list-serve.”

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Apparently free speech still isn’t being tolerated by the mullahs of the Log Cabin Republican organization. First, the Palm Beach LCR group was “excommunicated” due to the chapter’s endorsement of President Bush last year.

And now this….

To: LCRNorthCarolina@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:04:14 -0000
Subject: [LCRNorthCarolina] Leaving

Re: Free Speech Fear Not Acceptable.

Dear LCRNorthCarolina Members:

I am saying good-by to you. The reason is limitation of free speech. Today, I’ve learned that following the post below my privileges as a moderator were greatly diminished–LCRNorthCarolina is a group that I begun and voluntarily ceded ownership of to the national office in
2004.

I have enjoyed knowing all of you through your messages but I feel that no one should live in fear of what they say here. I will continue to work for Log Cabin Republicans and to pray for its future success. Thank you all.

So long,
D. J. Register
Founder, LCRNorthCarolina

I guess LCR Board Chairman Bill Brownson does rule with an iron fist…..

I don’t know about you, but I find more than a hint of irony when a Republican organization that spent most of its money last year in efforts to defeat Republican candidates (the infamous $1M anti-Bush TV ad campaign), has a problem with critical comments and opposition from within its own organization.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. Well at least they are being fair to both sides! You can’t speak out when that clown Matt Foreman puts his foot in his mouth (yet again) or you will be fired if your on staff at LCR. So it only follows that you can’t question the board or staff either!

  6. Way off-topic, but this is pegging my Weird-O-Meter: United Arab Emirates Police Bust Up Mass Gay Wedding

    (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) Authorities raided a hotel and arrested 26 men for alleged adultery and prostitution during a mass homosexual wedding. The men were UAE nationals, Arabs, and Asians. Some were dressed as women, with make-up and hairstyles, and the others were dressed in Arab attire. A rash of Muslim Arab homosexual gatherings and group arrests has occurred recently and the country’s leadership is alarmed.

  8. There have been attempts for nearly two years to get a LCR chapter established in New Jersey….with no results. Those of us in NJ who do not have business or social ties to NYC or Philly are left in the Wilderness; exaserbated by the lack of any coherent G/L communities other than a handful of G/L bedroom communities for NYC and Philly like Maplewood, Collingswood and the River Counties.

    And LCR-Natl seems to have written-off NJ after several good-faith tries. I can’t even get an e-mail back from LCR-Natl about any new attempts to get the NJ-Chapter up and running. The NJ primaries will be in 6-months, so I guess it’s already too-late to have any effect on the 2006 election-cycle. I guess Patrick has his hands-full with both the posts of Political Director and National Field Director vacant.

    The show-trials should be starting in a few months if political history repeats itself in predictable patterns. Always remember that those who write-up the lists are usually added to the bottom of the same list.