Perhaps if Eva Young would refer to the article in the June 5 edition of "City Pages" entitled "Sacred Cow Tipping", she would discover why Lavender is not serious about true, honest political reporting. If they had no problem with me attacking the hypocrisy of her political hero, Tim Pawlenty, on the state domestic partner issue, then Lavender shouldn't have feared printing my final column for them exposing their own political shenanigans.
As for trying to make an issue out of who was chair of Stonewall DFL when and for how long, puh-lease! Is this the best Ms. Young and the Log Cabin Republicans can come up with when there are so many serious political issues to discuss? During a May phone conversation she and I had about what I felt was Lavender's less-than-honest attempts to alter political reporting (by attempting to say Stonewall DFL was in disarray when it was not the case), I explained that it was correct that Tim Petlock was at that time acting chair of Stonewall DFL. Megan Thomas had stepped down for personal reasons, but has now returned. Petlock voluntarily turned the gavel back over to Thomas -- no fuss, no muss. Doesn't sound like any infighting or major sinister scandals afoot, does it? I agree with Eva that the Minneapolis area GLBT press lags far behind other metropolitan GLBT publications in the arena of political reporting. Check out Chicago, Seattle, even Orlando! Yes, as Eva points out, it requires a concerted effort to develop good political reporters. It also requires publishers who understand the true meaning of "freedom of speech" and not envision themselves as Charles Foster Kane. Alan Hooker (speaking solely for myself) Victory Neighborhood Minneapolis >From: Eva Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Mpls] Curiouser and Curiouser >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:15:39 -0500 > >Brandon Lacy Campos writes: > >Tim Petlock was the acting Stonewall DFL Chair for a brief period. >Is he still the Chair? The Stonewall DFL website lists Tim Petlock as >Vice-Chair and Acting Chair -- and lists Megan Thomas as a director. I >recall Petlock posted to this list last year criticizing list member, and >Stonewall member Lee Schneider for posting his opinions and sharing >information about Stonewall's process with regard to the Lilligren/Brock >race. > > >No member of the Stonewall DFL Board engaged in any sort of campaign to >silence anyone with regards to the Catherine Shreeves campaign (of whom I >know). > >============================= >Well personally, I wish these women would go on record on this. It's >fairly straightforward to guess who they might be considering Rainbow >Families was mentioned. Still, since I remember well the fallout I got >from Stonewall folks when I supported Arne Carlson for Governor, this story >is credible to me. Heck, the best way to stop unpleasant email is to >expose it to the light of day. I have done that in the past -- and it >works amazingly well. > >Stonewall DFL has a response to the editorial in Lavender. But please do >not take my word > >for any of this as I am speaking in my capacity as a community member and >not > >for the Stonewall DFL. >Noted. I suppose Patrick Peterson's post is the official Stonewall >response. Looking forward to the Minnesota News Council complaint. > > >It is also naive to suggest that GLBT issues are a non-issue in the DFL. >I, > >as a member of the Stonewall DFL, do not believe that GLBT issues are a >non-issue > >in the DFL, nor do I believe that other Stonewall members believe that >GLBT > >issues are non-issues in the party. Quite to the contrary, we have some >pretty > >homophobic out-state members of the DFL. >Well heck, there were two metro area DFL legislators who voted to retain >the sodomy law the last time the topic came up -- former Sen. and current >St Paul Mayor, Randy Kelly and Sen. Dave Johnson of Bloomington. Senator >Wellstone's vote in favor of DOMA seems anti-gay to me. LCR/MN did a press >release condemning the Republicans on that Committee for their efforts to >make sure the sodomy law was still in place -- and I wrote to Stonewall >Board members at the time, challenging Stonewall to do the same with the >DFLers. Stonewall declined. > >I'd like to thank Mike, the Lavender employee for posting on this subject. >I would like to see better political coverage in Lavender. Other metro >area Gay newspapers have much better quality political reporting than does >Lavender currently. I hope that will change. It does require a concerted >effort to develop good political reporters. > > >Eva >Eva Young >Central Neighborhood >Minneapolis > >"You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on >freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave >the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the >world is full of idiots, and probably always will be." --Article II of the >Bill of Non-Rights. >_______________________________________ >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: >http://e-democracy.org/mpls _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
