Exclusive: Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Blade

The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned following a controversial decision by the organization’s board to endorse President Trump, the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.

Jerri Ann Henry, who was the first woman to lead the LGBT Republican group, formally submitted her resignation Friday and left Monday after discussions with board members characterized as “harsh,” sources familiar with Log Cabin told the Blade.

The resignation follows intense criticism of Log Cabin, which announced its support for Trump earlier this month without its members having met with him or having received any explicit commitments in exchange.

Sources said Henry’s discontent with Trump and dissatisfaction with Log Cabin’s approach to defending its Trump endorsement in the media were key among her reasons for stepping down.

Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/08/27/exclusive-log-cabin-executive-director-resigns-over-trump-endorsement/

[brush]

1. Finally. It took a woman to exhibit some cojones.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. I get your point.........

but it does leave a troubling "visual!"

[brush]

5. Figuratively so to speak, not literally.

[skypilot]

3. What purpose...

...does this organization serve? I can't figure it out. If any of these people are drawing a paycheck for their work with this group then someone somewhere is getting robbed.

[SpankMe]

4. Gay Trump supporters

It's like Jewish Hitler supporters or black Klan supporters. I just don't get it.

It's fair for a gay individual to have a conservative orientation and potentially be a Trump supporter. But, an organization with a specifically LGBT identity to endorse Trump - it's, just...I don't know what it is. It ain't normal.

As a country, we're going down the shitter as long as this "creature" is in office and his supporters wield power.

[sandensea]

6. Stuckholm Syndrome

They side with their tormentors, hoping in some way for a pat on the head.

And they're stuck on stupid.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. It's masochism

or libertarians wearing blinders

[Zambero]

8. (1) Dems pursue equal rights for all. (2) GOP makes the rich richer.

As long as item (1) is satisfied, many fiscal conservatives who happen to be gay envision getting themselves to the top 1% and will therefore opt for item (2), thanks to Dems having ensured that their rights as individuals are respected.

[groundloop]

9. Good explanation.

I'd always realized that the Log Cabin group were more interested in furthering their financial goals than protecting their rights as gay Americans, but you bring out a good point that it's the work of Democrats to protect their rights which allows them to concentrate on enriching themselves.

[calimary]

10. It's always about the money, dammit.

[machoneman]

14. Maybe but..it may be instead that German bishop's plea, too late, that when they came for me....

there was no one left to speak up...for me.

To wit: it won't happen to me.

[Pepsidog]

11. Yep

[Duncan Grant]

12. In an interview last week she said she'll write-in a republican...

before she'll vote for a Democrat.

HORN: I can`t imagine myself voting for a Democratic nominee because I am

a Conservative. I do believe in the core principles of the party of

Lincoln. I don`t know what I`m going to do in 2020 other than I will not

be voting for Donald Trump.

Tells you everything you need to know.

Source: Transcript 8.20.19 All In With Chris Hayes

[angrychair]

13. Strange

I do believe in the core principles of the party Lincoln

The core principles of the political Party of Lincoln are absolutely not those of the Republican party of 2019.

This statement is intellectually lazy and demonstrably false.

[Demonaut]

15. Peter Thiel involved?

[truthisfreedom]

16. The log cabiners deserve everything they experience.

Why they would be repukes is far beyond my understanding.