Washington Blade editor: Lawyers for DNC chief of staff tried to intimidate me

[PageOneQ]

A scathing editorial to be printed in this Friday's Washington Blade will claim that attorneys representing Leah Daughtry, chief of staff of the Democratic National Committee, attempted to intimidate the paper's editor and publisher over its reporting on an ongoing discrimination lawsuit, PageOneQ has learned.

As earlier reported, a suit was filed against the DNC by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock, alleging harassment and retaliation by top DNC staff, including Daughtry and Chairman Howard Dean. Hitchcock claims that Daughtry and Dean held him responsible for criticism of the DNC's LGBT outreach efforts by his partner, Democratic consultant Paul Yandura. Included in Yandura's criticisms were public statements urging gays to reconsider giving money to the DNC.


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[mondo joe]

1. I've been following this story, and feel convinced the DNC is entirely too comfy for some

serious anti-gay people.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. I think you mean "Entirely too comfy WITH some seriously anti-gay people."

That is certainly how it looks from where I stand. Cause, goodness knows, they ain't very comfy with us.

[davidinalameda]

3. he's also right

those who are anti-gay know that nothing will happen to them

[mondo joe]

4. I guess I meant both ways. Leah Daughtry is too comfy - she knows she can behave this

way at no risk to her position. And the DNC is too comfy with her.

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. Ok, I can see that

I haven't had enough caffeine yet to properly parse your subject line. :hi:

[mondo joe]

6. Here's her marriage comment:

“I believe, as the church believes, that marriage is intended for one man and one woman.” Daughtry goes on to insist that she keeps her religious beliefs separate from her duties at the DNC: “People know that I am a reverend but it is completely separate from the work at the DNC.”

http://www.queerty.com/leah-daughtry-defines-marriage-as-one-man-one-woman-20080131/

How she thinks she can separate her comments from her work is a mystery to me.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. Someone needs to remind her that civil marriage has no relation at all with religious marriage

But then, most people are abjectly ignorant on the subject, and I'm tired of trying to teach sixth grade civics to all the ignoramouses in the US.

[mondo joe]

12. I suspect she's well aware of that. This is just bigotry, through and through.

Fire gays for not raising enough cash off of us, but don't let us get married.

[Ian David]

5. I expected better than this from Howard Dean.

[TechBear_Seattle]

9. That would be the same Howard Dean

Who was the first Democratic candidate in 2004 to denounce efforts towards equality and endorse Jim Crow marriage-lite, correct?

[closeupready]

10. If true, this just makes me even less willing to give to the DNC.

The US already has a party of conformists and authoritarians, and last I checked, that was the GOP. Has that changed??

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. "Has that changed?" you ask. Not in the last two decades, unfortunately

Nothing more than different wings of the Two Party.