I find this whole issue of Stonewall placing so much emphasis on supporting
candidates pledging to honor endorsement to be quite perplexing. Accross
the river in St. Paul we've got 6 DFLers trying to succeed Norm. I believe
that of the 6, 5 screened with Stonewall. Now, of these five only 1
candidate has pledged to honor the DFL endorsement, but that's not who
Stonewall endorsed.
I just find this all quite confusing. Does the organization have different
standards for MPLS candidates then St. Paul candidates?
Jesse Kanson-Benanav
St. Paul
--On Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:36 AM -0500 Eva Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> 2001 presents an historic opportunity to really
>> experience the capacity of Stonewall DFL and the
>> broader GLBT community. With four strong openly gay
>> City Council candidates and a longer slate of folks on
>> all independent boards, the excitement has just begun.
>> I welcome more comments about these fabulous trends.
> There are FIVE openly gay City Council Candidates not four. Four of these
> were endorsed by Stonewall. I happen to think Robert Lilligren in the
> eighth ward is the cream of this crop. Check out his website at:
>
> http://www.voterobert.com/
>
> Many gays in the Central neighborhood were appalled that Stonewall found
> Robert unacceptable. The only reason for this was that Robert would not
> agree to bide by DFL endorsement. That question should not get asked with
> Stonewall DFL screenings. Council Member Brian Herron isn't a bad guy,
> but he has done nothing to earn the Stonewall DFL endorsement. When you
> compare Robert Lilligren and Brian Herron on GLBT issues the choice is
> obvious.
>
> Robert's answers to the Stonewall questionaire are available at the E
> Democracy Minneapolis Issues Election Toolkit:
>
> http://www.e-democracy.org/mpls/lilligrenstonewall.htm
>
> http://www.e-democracy.org/mpls/Mpls%202001%20Election%20Toolkit.htm
>
> Note that Brian Herron's answers to this questionaire are not available
> here. Why not? Why not let people look for themselves at Herron's
> answers to these questions and Lilligren's answers and decide for
> themselves which candidates is better on GLBT issues?
>
> Robert also posts regularly on this list, returns phone calls, and
> responds to email. That is always a plus for a City Council member.
>
> Since we are talking about history here. Many folks recall Mark Wallem.
> Annie Young mentioned him in a recent post to the list. Mark was in town
> this weekend, and he visited the City DFL convention. Years ago Gay
> activists in the Stonewall DFL predecessor were instrumental in deepsixing
> Alfred Babington Johnson's campaign for school board. Babington Johnson
> was endorsed enthursiastically by the DFL elected official establishment.
> Peter McLaughlin was one of his biggest boosters. Babington Johnson had
> some rather disturbing anti-gay views. His endorsement was blocked at the
> City DFL convention. In the primary he came in 6 out of 7. In the
> general election he came in 4th, so he lost the seat. Mark Wallem and
> Michelle St Martin were very instrumental in this effort. George Brady
> of the Teamsters Union was also instrumental. I helped a bit also. This
> was lots of fun.
>
> Eva
> Eva Young
> Central
>
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