Comments on Advance Indiana™: GOP Boycotts HRO Hearing; Action Deferred For Now

Jeff,I think you should use that at the next commi...

2005-12-07T09:54:00.000-05:00

Jeff,
I think you should use that at the next committee hearing and call that guy to the carpet.

I stand corrected about the existence of the artic...

2005-12-07T09:17:00.000-05:00

I stand corrected about the existence of the article, but read what it says at the bottom:

Gay market demographics

In the U.S., same-sex couples have slightly higher incomes than different-sex married couples. In Indiana, the reverse is true.

Reynolds lied in his testimony; he cited an article as support for his position that actually stated just the opposite.

Oh I absolutely agree! I did read Jon Keep's resp...

2005-12-06T22:10:00.000-05:00

Oh I absolutely agree! I did read Jon Keep's response. I was just pointing out that there was in fact an article in The Star and the guy didn't make it up.

Kevin,To be fair, Reynolds completely misconstrued...

2005-12-06T18:46:00.000-05:00

Kevin,

To be fair, Reynolds completely misconstrued the economic data just as Clark did--I would urge you to read Jon Keep's response to this argument, which is completely irrelevant to the question of whether the HRO should be passed. Jewish Americans can attest to the fact that economic envy can lead to discrimination. Hitler played that card to the hilt in rallying working class Germans behind the Holocaust. The protections in our civil rights laws for religion was sought by Jewish Americans for this very reason.

Jeff,in the interest of fairness and of keeping ev...

2005-12-06T16:40:00.000-05:00

Jeff,
in the interest of fairness and of keeping everyone informed, there was such an article:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=indystar&p_multi=IN|&p_product=IN&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=gays%20AND%20showing%20AND%20economic%20AND%20clout&s_dispstring=gays%20showing%20economic%20clout&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no

It was printed June 23, 2005 entitled: "Gays Showing Economic Clout" since it is more than 30 days old, to reprint the whole thing, you will have to buy it but I have a copy that I printed out the day it ran. Email me if you want to see the whole thing.

Marti,It won't be voted on unless it has 15 votes....

2005-12-06T15:46:00.000-05:00

Marti,

It won't be voted on unless it has 15 votes. Depending on who you talk to there are either 14 or 15 members who plan to vote for it at this point, if a vote is taken. But those extra votes have not publicly committed.

How would Democrats be screwing Peterson by adding a few votes for the HRO in exchange for a Republican vote for the police merger?

My question is... as it always has been... DO WE H...

2005-12-06T14:56:00.000-05:00

My question is... as it always has been... DO WE HAVE THE THREE VOTES!

It's my understanding that Steve Talley is a possible vote but I've not heard that any other vote is up for grabs. As far as bartering votes, do you think Democrats would screw Bart Peterson a second time to get 622 passed? I think not.

So... where in the hell are we going to get the votes? It's that simple.

His name is Richard Scott Reynolds-the only Republ...

2005-12-05T23:46:00.000-05:00

His name is Richard Scott Reynolds-the only Republican running against Carson right now. The statistics he supposedly cited from the Star actually appeared in the Micah Clark column, which Jon Keep of the Rainbow Chamber tore apart in a follow up column.

Who was that guy citing statistics? A congression...

2005-12-05T23:42:00.000-05:00

Who was that guy citing statistics? A congressional candidate?

You should have seen him after his testimony; he was practically high-fiving all of those black preachers (who have no idea that in another era their buddy Eric Miller would be unrecognizable under his white hood).

I had to leave and didn't get a chance to hear Chris set the record straight, but that idiot was citing statistics that simply don't exist. It's one thing to twist numbers (the old figures don't lie, but liars figure), but this guy was just plain making it up.

He even used the Indianapolis Star as his "source." I'll offer a $200 cash reward for the article that backs up his statements. I'm not worried about losing the cash; there is no such article.

2005-12-05T23:39:00.000-05:00

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