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Kirsten Gillibrand

2011-06-29T00:02:06Z

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|terms=January 4, 2007 – January 26, 2009
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'''Kirsten E. Gillibrand''' (born December 9, 1966) (pronounced JILL-uh-brand) is a first-term United States senator from [[New York]]. Gillibrand served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2007, to January 26, 2009, when she resigned to become a U.S. Senator. Gillibrand was appointed by NY Governor [[David A. Paterson|David Paterson]] on January 23, 2009 to the United States Senate for the term ending January 3, 2013, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Hillary Clinton]]. This appointment took effect upon her resignation from the House of Representatives on January 26, 2009. Gillibrand took the oath of office on January 27, 2009. At forty-two years old she is the youngest member of the Senate. She is also smokin' hot.

Gillibrand is one of the most aggressive fund-raisers in the country, and prospective opponents have dropped out of the 2010 primary. Harold Ford, a former Congressman from Tennessee who lost a Senate bid there after voters reacted against his notoriously corrupt Memphis family was a notable challenger of her in the race until he dropped his bid to challenge her.
==Career==
From an upstate New York family long involved in politics, she graduated from Dartmouth College (1988) and UCLA Law School. At Dartmouth learned Chinese, spent a semester in China, and wrote a senior project on the topic, "The History of Tibetan Resistance to the Chinese Occupation of Tibet 1950-1988."

She is a Catholic, and is married with two children. Her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand, is a British citizen who works in finance.

Gillibrand worked for both Republicans and Democrats, and clerked for a senior federal judge --a Reagan appointee-- before working for a major law firm in New York City.

==Election==
Gillibrand was elected in 2006 after defeating incumbent Republican John E. Sweeney. She won by 6% of the vote.

==House==
Gillibrand is considered a [[Blue Dog Democrat]] for her conservative credentials, including a 100% rating from the [[NRA]], supports offshore drilling, and voted against the $700 billion bailout. However, she supports civil liberties and has a 100% rating from the [[ACLU]]. She supported redeployment of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, and voted with the Bush administration and against her own party leadership on funding the Iraq war.<ref> See [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/01/23/kirsten_gillibrand/ Joe Conason, "Kirsten Gillibrand. Really? Why New York Gov. David Paterson chose a senator with conservative views that clash with his own." ''Salon'' Jan. 23, 2009]</ref> She favors the English language-only movement as well as abortion rights; she has supported balanced budget amendments, and opposed amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Gillibrand is considered one of the Democratic Party's most active and aggressive grass roots campaigners, using her huge $4.6 million war chest to garner 65% of the vote in the 2008 election.

==U.S. Senate==
Gillibrand was nominated to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton after she became Secretary of State in the [[Obama Administration]]. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, had been considered the frontrunner until she mysteriously dropped out of the contest on Jan. 22. The choice of Gillibrand was a stunning blow to liberal forces in New York, who never dreamed she would displace their favorites. "She is on the right-wing of our Congressional delegation," said Danny Cantor, a liberal leader. "People change, and we’re going to be optimistic and hope she does too."<ref>Quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/nyregion/24gillibrand.html?ref=nyregion Michael Powell and Raymond Hernandez, "Gillibrand Is a Centrist With a Tenacious Style," ''New York Times'' Jan. 24, 2009] </ref>

Many staffers and supporters of Clinton have joined her team, which proposes to raise $70 million for her statewide reelection campaigns in 2010 and 2012. Gillibrand is not well known in New York City, the liberal stronghold where Democratic primaries are won and lost. However she has already amassed a huge war chest and no major opponents for the primary are in sight.

==ACORN==
After countless stories of election fraud by the group ACORN, Kirsten Gillibrand was one of seven Democrats that voted to continue funding [[ACORN]]. The vote failed and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate <ref>[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html Senate denies ACORN funding, Politico, September 14, 2009]</ref> Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government said, "The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators [Gillibrand] have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," <ref>[http://politicomafioso.blogspot.com/2009/09/alg-condemns-7-senators-for-voting-to.html ALG Condemns 7 Senators,Politico Mafioso, September 16, 2009]</ref>

==External Links==
*[http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/gillibrand.htm Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - Official Senate Homepage]
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412223 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - GovTrack.us]

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==References==
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[[Category:United States Senators]]
[[Category:2010 Midterm Elections]]
[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Democratic Party]]
[[Category:111th United States Congress]]

GOProud

2011-06-28T23:58:32Z

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'''GOProud''' is a gay rights group that consists of [[conservative]] homosexuals. They consider themselves conservatives who believe in [[limited government]], individual liberty, free markets, national defense and a strong foreign policy. Per their website "We believe that every individual should be equal under the law." This stance would include the right to gay marriage. Some people believe the group has more in common with conservatism than the [[libertarian]] wing. [[Big government]] [[RINO]]s who believe in the expansion of government into people's personal lives believe that [[conservatism]] is defined by social issues; God, heterosexual marriage, etc. As such, GOProud divides the conservative movement which is now evident in the annual [[CPAC]] convention and the refusal of social conservative groups to attend an event that promotes [[homosexuality]] from GOProud. The co-founders of GOProud are Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher Barron, a political director for [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>[http://www.gaypatriot.net/2005/11/16/breaking-news-log-cabin-loses-political-director-to-planned-parenthood/ BREAKING NEWS: LOG CABIN LOSES POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, Gay Patriot, November 16, 2005]</ref> In a rejection of the [[homosexual agenda]], the CPAC board of directors voted to exclude GOProud from future CPAC conferences.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=263673 GOProud out at annual summit of conservatives]</ref> They prove their conservatism as they are generally [[pro-life]], support the [[Second Amendment]], and support low taxes and less regulatory burdens on businesses. They are a group that holds true to the [[Republican Party]]'s claims of supporting individual liberty. The group was founded by former [[Log Cabin Republicans]] members who felt that Log Cabin was too centrist, so they wished to found a more conservative homosexual group.

==See Also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.goproud.org Official website]

[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Politics]]

GOProud

2011-06-28T19:11:30Z

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GOProud

2011-06-28T19:10:58Z

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'''GOProud''' is a gay rights group that consists of [[conservative]] homosexuals. They consider themselves conservatives who believe in [[limited government]], individual liberty, free markets, national defense and a strong foreign policy. Per their website "We believe that every individual should be equal under the law." This stance would include the right to gay marriage. Some people believe the group has more in common with conservatism than the [[libertarian]] wing. [[Big government]] [[RINO]]s who believe in the expansion of government into people's personal lives believe that [[conservatism]] is defined by social issues; God, heterosexual marriage, etc. As such, GOProud divides the conservative movement which is now evident in the annual [[CPAC]] convention and the refusal of social conservative groups to attend an event that promotes [[homosexuality]] from GOProud. The co-founders of GOProud are Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher Barron, a political director for [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>[http://www.gaypatriot.net/2005/11/16/breaking-news-log-cabin-loses-political-director-to-planned-parenthood/ BREAKING NEWS: LOG CABIN LOSES POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, Gay Patriot, November 16, 2005]</ref> In a rejection of the [[homosexual agenda]], the CPAC board of directors voted to exclude GOProud from future CPAC conferences.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=263673 GOProud out at annual summit of conservatives]</ref> They prove their conservatism as they are generally [[pro-life]], support the [[Second Amendment]], and support low taxes and less regulatory burdens on businesses. They are a group that holds true to the [[Republican]] Party's claims of supporting individual liberty. The group was founded by former [[Log Cabin Republicans]] members who felt that Log Cabin was too centrist, so they wished to found a more conservative homosexual group.

==See Also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.goproud.org Official website]

[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Politics]]

GOProud

2011-06-28T19:07:34Z

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'''GOProud''' is a gay rights group that consists of [[conservative]] homosexuals. They consider themselves conservatives who believe in [[limited government]], individual liberty, free markets, national defense and a strong foreign policy. Per their website "We believe that every individual should be equal under the law." This stance would include the right to gay marriage. Some people believe the group has more in common with conservatism than the [[libertarian]] wing. [[Big government]] [[RINO]]s who believe in the expansion of government into people's personal lives believes that [[conservatism]] is defined by social issues; God, heterosexual marriage, etc. As such, GOProud divides the conservative movement which is now evident in the annual [[CPAC]] convention and the refusal of social conservative groups to attend an event that promotes [[homosexuality]] from GOProud. The co-founders of GOProud are Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher Barron, a political director for [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>[http://www.gaypatriot.net/2005/11/16/breaking-news-log-cabin-loses-political-director-to-planned-parenthood/ BREAKING NEWS: LOG CABIN LOSES POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, Gay Patriot, November 16, 2005]</ref> In a rejection of the [[homosexual agenda]], the CPAC board of directors voted to exclude GOProud from future CPAC conferences.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=263673 GOProud out at annual summit of conservatives]</ref>

==Leftist Policies==
*Christopher Barron calls Cleta Mitchell, a conservative lawyer fighting same-sex marriage in D.C., a "nasty [[bigot]]." <ref>[http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/10/this-is-too-much-for-me/ This is Too Much For Me, Red State, February 10, 2011]</ref>
*GOProud attacks conservative [[Tim Pawlenty]] for his support of Don't Ask Don't Tell. <ref>[http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/08/reciprocal-courtesy-on-a-bridge-too-far/ Reciprocal Courtesy On a Bridge Too Far, Red State, February 2011]</ref>
*GOProud calls conservative leader [[Jim DeMint]] "outrageous and bizarre" for suggesting the barring of openly [[gay]] teachers from school. <ref>[http://www.goproud.org/jim-demint-trying-his-best-to-make-alvin-greene-look-sane/ Jim DeMint: Trying His Best to Make Alvin Greene Look Sane, GOProud, October 5, 2010]</ref>
*GOProud attempts to [[dilute]] the [[Biblical]] condemnation of [[homosexuality]] as a [[sin]] and an [[abomination]] unto [[God]].
*GOProud supports attempts to force the [[military]] to allow openly [[homosexual]] men and women to serve.

==See Also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.goproud.org Official website]

[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Politics]]

GOProud

2011-06-28T19:07:07Z

FreakyLocz14:

'''GOProud''' is a gay rights group that consists of [[conservative]] homosexuals. They consider themselves conservatives who believe in [[limited government]], individual liberty, free markets, national defense and a strong foreign policy. Per their website "We believe that every individual should be equal under the law." This stance would include the right to gay marriage. Some people believe the group has more in common with conservatism than the [[libertarian]] wing. [[Big government]] [[RINOs]] who believe in the expansion of government into people's personal lives believes that [[conservatism]] is defined by social issues; God, heterosexual marriage, etc. As such, GOProud divides the conservative movement which is now evident in the annual [[CPAC]] convention and the refusal of social conservative groups to attend an event that promotes [[homosexuality]] from GOProud. The co-founders of GOProud are Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher Barron, a political director for [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>[http://www.gaypatriot.net/2005/11/16/breaking-news-log-cabin-loses-political-director-to-planned-parenthood/ BREAKING NEWS: LOG CABIN LOSES POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, Gay Patriot, November 16, 2005]</ref> In a rejection of the [[homosexual agenda]], the CPAC board of directors voted to exclude GOProud from future CPAC conferences.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=263673 GOProud out at annual summit of conservatives]</ref>

==Leftist Policies==
*Christopher Barron calls Cleta Mitchell, a conservative lawyer fighting same-sex marriage in D.C., a "nasty [[bigot]]." <ref>[http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/10/this-is-too-much-for-me/ This is Too Much For Me, Red State, February 10, 2011]</ref>
*GOProud attacks conservative [[Tim Pawlenty]] for his support of Don't Ask Don't Tell. <ref>[http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/08/reciprocal-courtesy-on-a-bridge-too-far/ Reciprocal Courtesy On a Bridge Too Far, Red State, February 2011]</ref>
*GOProud calls conservative leader [[Jim DeMint]] "outrageous and bizarre" for suggesting the barring of openly [[gay]] teachers from school. <ref>[http://www.goproud.org/jim-demint-trying-his-best-to-make-alvin-greene-look-sane/ Jim DeMint: Trying His Best to Make Alvin Greene Look Sane, GOProud, October 5, 2010]</ref>
*GOProud attempts to [[dilute]] the [[Biblical]] condemnation of [[homosexuality]] as a [[sin]] and an [[abomination]] unto [[God]].
*GOProud supports attempts to force the [[military]] to allow openly [[homosexual]] men and women to serve.

==See Also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.goproud.org Official website]

[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Politics]]

Log Cabin Republicans

2011-06-28T19:04:16Z

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The '''Log Cabin Republicans''' is a political organization in the [[United States]] given prominence by the media that exceeds its actual membership. The group consists of [[homosexuals]] who claim to support the [[Republican Party]] but are actually dedicated to advancing portions of the [[homosexual agenda]] and opposing [[conservatives]] within the party. The Log Cabin Republicans voted 22-2 against supporting President George W. Bush in 2004,<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941189/</ref> making its opposition to the Republican nominee higher than than many rank-and-file [[Democratic Party]] organizations.

Further demonstrating its ''opposition'' to real Republicans, the Log Cabin Republicans expelled its own chapter in Palm Beach, Florida for continuing to publicly support the reelection of [[Republican]] President [[George W. Bush]] in 2004.<ref>[http://www.washblade.com/2004/11-12/news/national/explain.cfm][http://upmeads.blogspot.com/2004/10/palm-beach-log-cabin-chapter-gets-boot.html][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3904-2005Mar26.html]</ref> In opposition of the more moderate Log Cabin Republicans, homosexuals who claim to be farther to the right founded the group [[GOProud]].

An insightful commentary about the Log Cabin Republicans compared it to "termites":<ref>http://jameshartlinereport.blogspot.com/2007/02/jhreport-exclusive-log-cabin_07.html</ref>

:There is virtually no difference between the Log Cabin Republicans' assault on Christian values within the GOP and that of the [[ACLU]] or any number of other anti-christian groups in America. From promoting gay marriage to participating in pornographic gay pride parades, the Log Cabin Republicans defy every moral concept articulated in Christian Conservative circles. Why do the Log Cabin Republicans even maintain membership within the Republican Party? Look to the termite and the answer is clear. Like the termite, the Log Cabin Republicans have targeted an already existing structure, built by human hands, from which they can feed their political appetite and agenda. The aftermath, much like the resulting effect on a house after termites have had their way, is a destroyed conservative Republican Party. In effect, the Log Cabin Republicans are the best friends that socialist Democrats like liberal Congressman [[Barney Frank]] and Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] have ever had. Truly, the Log Cabin Republicans have earned the well-deserved title of being named America's Political Termites.

== Beliefs ==

Despite opposing the reelection of President [[George W. Bush]] by more than a 10:1 margin, the leadership of the Log Cabin Republicans insists that its members "are loyal Republicans."<ref>[http://online.logcabin.org/about/] Log Cabin Republicans' website</ref>

==Peter LaBarbera Declares Log Cabin Republican's Purge Mark Foley Picture from Its Website ==
[[Peter LaBarbera]] who is president of Americans for Truth, which is an organization that opposes the [[homosexual agenda]], stated the following:
{{cquote|With the efficiency of a [[Joseph Stalin|Stalinist]] historian, the homosexual group Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) has purged this photograph of former Florida Rep. [[Mark Foley]], disgraced homosexual and seducer of teenaged boys, from its website. Foley was among the politicians and pundits whom LCR proudly recorded as speaking at its 2003 national convention in Washington, D.C. But they’re not so proud anymore.<ref>http://www.gaywrongs.com/news/log-cabin-republicans-erase-photo-of-predator-mark-foley-from-website.html</ref>}}

[[Concerned Women for America]] wrote:
{{cquote|[Foley’s] voting record on gay rights has become a controversial issue. He's campaigning across Florida for the U.S. Senate. The people have a right to know,” Norman wrote in a long column May 8. “And dancing around the truth is just getting too weird to abide.”

In the column, Norman quotes Tracy Thorne, a homosexual and activist for homosexuals in the military, saying that Foley brought a “boyfriend” along on a visit to Thorne in the early 1990s.

Foley and his spokesman say they will not answer reporters’ questions about his “personal life.” The [[homosexuality|homosexual]] newspaper ''Washington Blade'' was told the same when it asked spokesman Kirk Fordham “point blank if Foley is gay.”<ref>http://www.cwfa.org/articles/4008/CFI/cfreport/index.htm</ref>}}

The group [[Family Research Council]] stated:
{{cquote|Foley, an unmarried 52-year-old representative, had always refused to answer questions about his sexual orientation. Now that his emails and messages to teenage male pages have been revealed, it appears clear that Foley is a homosexual with a particular attraction to underage boys.<ref>http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06J01</ref>}}

== See also ==

*[[Homosexuality and pederasty]]
*[[Atheism, pederasty and NAMBLA]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Political Organizations]]