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2/3/2012
While local politics might lack the circus-flare of the Republican primary race, there has been an increasing public display of aggressive intensity in the race for the 50th Assembly District. The drama has divided the LGBT community in a way not seen since the March 2000 race between Hollywood/Echo Park L.A. City Councilmember Jackie Goldberg and AIDS activist Cesar Portillo for the then-45th Assembly District, and it has some stunned Democratic leaders questioning the traditional ...
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2/1/2012
LGBT activists are reporting potential progress in their efforts to convince President Barack Obama to expand an existing executive order prohibiting discrimination by certain government contractors to also now protect LGBT people, Metro Weekly reported Jan. 31.
The order currently prohibits federal contractors doing more than $10,000 in business with the government from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Advocates seek to add sexual orientation and gender ...
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2/1/2012
To: Interested PartiesFrom: Stephanie Cutter, Deputy Campaign ManagerRe: Mitt Romney’s Negative Campaign is Backfiring
Mitt Romney’s win in Florida came at a very steep price. First, he and his allies had to spend more than $15 million – five times what Newt Gingrich’s team spent – on an air assault to take out what is widely regarded as weak competition. Second, and more ominously for Romney, his unprecedentedly negative, far-right Florida campaign continued ...
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1/20/2012
Reading his email dispatches as he traveled to Iowa, New Hampshire and now Michigan for his Republican presidential campaign, it’s easy to think of Fred Karger as a modern-day Don Quixote. Surely, like the fictional Man from La Mancha, Karger is tilting at windmills as he dreams the impossible dream of an openly gay man becoming president of the United States.
But the Los Angeles-based candidate says he has role models and mentors who instilled ...
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1/19/2012
This is an election year, and President Obama is expected to fight back hard against repeated Republican assertions that he is a “failed” president. But the annual State of the Union speech is supposed to be a report to Congress—and hence, the American people—on where the nation stands on a number of important fronts—wars, the economy, jobs—as well as Obama’s plans for the future. Given the ongoing attacks against marriage equality, recent reports indicating that ...
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1/19/2012
Democrat Mark Takano has embarked on a campaign that, if successful, will make him the first out gay person of color to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives. Takano, a 51-year-old Japanese-American, is running to represent the newly created 41st Congressional District, which includes the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris, Jurupa Valley and the unincorporated area of Mira Loma. The new, diverse district leans Democratic, even if its communities are not generally known ...
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1/18/2012
State of the State 2012: "California on the Mend"
SACRAMENTO – In his 2012 State of the State speech, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. said California is “on the mend” and laid out an ambitious agenda for economic growth in the year ahead.
The full text of the speech is below: (Remarks as prepared)
As required by the state constitution, I am reporting to you this morning on the condition of our state. ...
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1/6/2012
Politicos and pundits are frothing over the dark, rickety roller coaster ride known as the Republican presidential race. The Iowa Caucus on Jan. 3, which was really about selecting delegates to the Republican Convention in August, produced a couple of surprises: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won by eight votes—despite having decided to skip the grueling requisite retail campaigning in the socially conservative state—and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum came in second, besting ultra-libertarian Texas ...
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1/5/2012
Last November, President Obama made it very clear that he wants to develop a positive cooperative relationship with China, a country many believe to be the next seat of power in the global economy. The outreach is understandable: as of October 2011, China was the United States’ second largest trading partner and held $1.13 trillion of U.S. Treasury debt—which the Chinese government could sell or trade at any time.
But China’s policies and practices—such as ...
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1/4/2012
A suspect has been charged in a spate of 53 arson fires that terrorized residents of West Hollywood, Hollywood and cities as far away as Burbank and North Hollywood over the New Year’s weekend, The Daily Beast reported Jan. 3.
German-born Harry Burkhart, 24, was arrested Jan. 2 after Shervin Lalezary, a West Hollywood Sheriff’s reserve deputy (and Beverly Hills real estate attorney) stopped a van sought by arson investigators. Burkhart has been charged with ...
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