From Raw Story:
The largest gay-rights advocacy group in New Jersey has announced it will no longer give money to the Democratic Party.The move follows the state legislature’s failure last month to legalize gay marriage and amid growing signs that the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is already faltering.
“No political party has a record good enough on LGBT civil rights that it can rightfully claim to be entitled to our money on a party-wide basis,” said the chairman of Garden State Equality, Steven Goldstein, as quoted at PolitickerNJ.com.
“No longer will we let any political party take our money and volunteers with one hand, and slap us in the face with the other when we seek full equality,” Goldstein added…
Garden State Equality estimates it has given some $500,000 to the Democratic Party since 2005.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Don Lake .......... be alert // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Good for them. If it’s pay to play then it is also no pay for no play.
2 Richard Winger // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I just checked news.google and I don’t see any evidence that the effort to repeal “don’t ask don’t tell” in Congress is faltering. I wonder why this newspaper said that.
3 Third Party Revolution // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Good! They should have done this a long time ago.
4 Vaughn // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:58 pm
“No political party has a record good enough on LGBT civil rights that it can rightfully claim to be entitled to our money on a party-wide basis,”
Green Party? They won’t take PAC money though. If individuals involved in Garden State Equality want to donate directly to Green candidates, then that is fine.
5 Trent Hill // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Richard,
I dont think it is. Many of the top generals are on-board and Republicans don’t seem to want to make it an issue (not should they).
6 Vaughn // Feb 9, 2010 at 8:05 pm
GPNJ needs to get on this.
7 Dennis // Feb 9, 2010 at 8:11 pm
I stopped supporting Garden State Equality after they began actively endorsing/supporting Corzine. Chris Daggett was the gay rights candidate, Corzine just used gays for their votes. Sham on Garden State Equality for not realizing this….
8 Ross Levin // Feb 9, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Richard, they probably mean that it’s taken a long time for the DADT repeal to happen (and it hasn’t yet) and Obama’s been talking about it for a while. On the other hand, they could just be wrong.
9 LP pragmatist // Feb 9, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Libertarian Party is a natural fit, if they believe in a government being fiscally responsible
10 The Last Conservative // Feb 10, 2010 at 2:19 am
Yes, gays should go libertarian. They don’t care about any of the real Democratic issues anyway because of their selfish peverted agenda. Democrats should abandon the gay agenda and take some of the Christian fundamentalist vote from the Republicans. Then they will have over 2/3 of Congress and Obama can declare himself king.
11 Third Party Revolution // Mar 31, 2010 at 4:16 pm
And speaking of gay rights groups, are there any current lgbt third party or independent candidates for office?
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