Comments on: Carolina FreedomNet, Part Two

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:02:33 +0000

Bruce, I was hoping to get to say goodbye to you yesterday, but through all the after-luncheon mingling, I missed seeing you leave! Was great to meet you – and find out you are a fellow Charlottean. We conservative Charlotteans have to stick together, you know, since there are so few of us

By: Bob Owens

Bob Owens — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:45:20 +0000

Bruce,

It was awesome to have a chance to meet you. You’ve been on my blogroll for a very long time, and it was great to be able to put a face to a blogger I’ve long respected. I’m sorry I didn’t get more of a chance to talk to you.

By: Chase

Chase — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:42:15 +0000

Sydney,

Spitzer may get a majority in the Senate. The Democrats need to pick up 4 seats to gain the majority in the NY State Senate. From what I have read, the Democratic candidate (a gay man, no less) has a decent shot of picking up an open seat on Staten Island and there is also a competitive district in the last remaining Republican held seat on Long Island.

The Long Island seat is significant because, for many years, Long Island was the base of the Republican political machine in NY state. The Republicans used to dominate politics on Long Island. But those days are now gone.

The loss of Long Island is one of the primary factors why Republicans are no longer competitive in statewide races in New York anymore.

And so, since Spitzer and Clinton are expected to win by margins in the 25-35% range, there might be a chance the Democrats could pick up the nessecary senate seats because of the top of the ticket’s strength.

Also, recent polling shows a slight majority of New Yorkers statewide support gay marriage, which is a direct contrast to the rest of the country. Recent polling in New Jersey also gives a majority to gay marriage supporters.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:25:27 +0000

bruce, don’t let the bus run you over.

By: Sister Toldjah » Carolina FreedomNet 2006 - what a great experience!

Sister Toldjah » Carolina FreedomNet 2006 - what a great experience! — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:04:50 +0000

[...] One of the coolest things about this weekend was having so many classy Southern conservative gents and sassy Southern conservative gals in one place I don’t know many conservatives in Charlotte (in fact, I’m not sure there are that many around – LOL) but to my surprise, I found out this weekend that Bruce from the Gay Patriot blog, who was in attendance at the conference, was from Charlotte. Awesome! He liveblogged the panels here and here. It was such a pleasure to meet him – he had some great questions and comments for the panelists. During the first panel’s discussion (the one I was on) we found out that Bruce was in the front row – I had no idea that was him! So when our panel was over, I went over and gave him a big hug and we chatted for a few minutes. He is a class act all the way. [...]

By: Sydney Talon

Sydney Talon — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:29:05 +0000

#2 “We will not ask whether this proposition of legalizing same-sex marriage is popular or unpopular; we will not ask if it’s hard or easy; we will simply ask if it’s right or wrong.”

Wow, I did not realize this prominent a candidate was saying that. Mr. Thirty is correct when he says many Democratic leaders are not publicly commited, though it is a very long stretch to compare it to the GOP stance, which more universally oppose any gay-friendly move, be it ENDA, civil unions, marriage, DP benefits…..and so on.

Back to NY, aftter seeing this I read Spitzer is leading 3-1, and analysis on the gaymarriage issue is that he will propose it and likely get the lower house while the GOP in the upper house will move to block it. Yee-haw!

By: Bruce (GayPatriot)

Bruce (GayPatriot) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:45:30 +0000

Anon-

Can you say delusional?

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:16:36 +0000

can you say president pelosi???

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:27:41 +0000

Rudy would be a good President…

And speaking of New Yorkers, did anyone see Eliot Spitzer’s address to the Empire State Pride Agenda last night? In regard to the legalization of gay marriage, he said unequivocally, “We will make it law in New York.”

He went on to say, “We will not ask whether this proposition of legalizing same-sex marriage is popular or unpopular; we will not ask if it’s hard or easy; we will simply ask if it’s right or wrong. I think we know in this room what the answer to that question is.”

I Love NY.
Spitzer rocks.