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Joe.My.God.
EXCELLENT Summary from Pam's House Blend:
I think the saddest part of this, for me, is that I can totally believe HRC would make this sort of deal (pushing Hate Crimes and ENDA) to the detriment of progress on DADT (and DOMA?). The next step would be for HRC to trumpet these "successes" in their new series of funding solicitations. These have been "their issue" for years. I can believe they'd throw others under a bus to get their issues through Congress so they could use that "We fought for and got passed..." line in solicitations.
Luckily for the GLBT world, not everyone dances to HRC's drum. From Pam Spaulding:
[Update: Michelangelo Signorile's post: Joe Solmonese Interview: Discusses Obama, Responds to Critics. ]
NOW: Did HRC make deal delaying 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
HRC: 'Deal' claims 'an outright lie...recklessly irresponsible'
WATCH: Jason Bellini Daily Beast report on HRC Deal
Joe.My.God.
Daily Beast Reports: HRC Told Congress To Wait On DADT, Push For ENDA, Hate Crimes Instead
[Now with two updates]
EXCELLENT Summary from Pam's House Blend:
HRC's Solmonese goes on Signorile show; later calls for stop to DADT discharges on Hardball
I think the saddest part of this, for me, is that I can totally believe HRC would make this sort of deal (pushing Hate Crimes and ENDA) to the detriment of progress on DADT (and DOMA?). The next step would be for HRC to trumpet these "successes" in their new series of funding solicitations. These have been "their issue" for years. I can believe they'd throw others under a bus to get their issues through Congress so they could use that "We fought for and got passed..." line in solicitations.
Luckily for the GLBT world, not everyone dances to HRC's drum. From Pam Spaulding:
In HRC's case, there is a real threat of irrelevancy because of outside efforts attuned to that change, which is what Mike [Signorele] suggests may be the reason for Joe Solmonese surfacing now (you can listen to Mike's interview with him here).Should make for an interesting day and possibly weekend.The other things that have changed which perhaps have made HRC, rightly, realize they need to communicate with the LGBT public about their interactions with the White House is that the terrain is shifting rapidly, in the country but also among LGBT activists in recent weeks. Prominent activists Cleve Jones and David Mixner, joined by many others, have called for a march on Washington. Another group of activists met in Dallas and came up with the Dallas Principles, which challenge HRC's approach. And a group based in Hollywood has formed specifically to back Ted Olson's and David's Boies' challenge to Prop 8 in federal court -- a legal challenge that many gay groups, including HRC, oppose, fearing the setting of a bad precedent. The director Rob Reiner, Academy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and Chad Griffin, a former Clinton administration staffer (who also is an executive producer of the film "Outrage") are among those on the board of the group, The American Foundation for Civil Rights. It's safe to say that a group like this, especially, is somewhat of a threat to HRC because it has access to money and big names.
[Update: Michelangelo Signorile's post: Joe Solmonese Interview: Discusses Obama, Responds to Critics. ]
