12/18/2006
Patrick Sammon Named New President of Log Cabin Republicans
Rumors that Rick Santorum's communications director Robert Traynham was to be named president of the Log Cabin Republicans were just that. Patrick Sammon has been named to succeed outgoing pres. Patrick Guerriero, who held the post for nearly four years. Sammon was formerly executive vice president of the Liberty Education Forum, a non-profit arm of the Log Cabin organization.
Said Sammon: "I'm humbled and honored to be leading Log Cabin Republicans during this important time. Log Cabin's mission is more important than ever before. I will provide a strong voice for those in our Party who believe the GOP can return to power by pursuing a unifying and inclusive conservative agenda that attracts voters from both the center and the right...As someone who has lived almost ten years in smaller conservative cities, I've learned that most Americans are at their core decent people who value freedom and fairness for their family, friends, and neighbors. We need to continue seeking more allies for equality among conservatives and people of faith. Our side is winning the fight for equality, but we must do more in the years ahead to unify all Americans, particularly conservatives, around our common values of freedom and fairness."
Former president Guerriero has taken a job with the Gill Action Fund.
Posted 2:45 PM EST by Andy Towle in Log Cabin Republicans, News, Patrick Sammon, Republican Party | Permalink
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File Under: the things I will never understand...
Especially now.
I escaped my small conservative town to enjoy the rights that even large progressive cities have a hard time defending.
Why do people so badly want to be in clubs that do not want them?
Posted by: Br!on | Dec 18, 2006 3:14:06 PM
"Former president Guerriero has taken a job with the Gill Action Fund."
And here I thought he'd been asked to be Mary Cheney's manny.
Posted by: jmg | Dec 18, 2006 3:20:34 PM
Conservatives will never accept us as long as the word "conservative" is a de facto synonym for "belligerent fundamentalist right-wing religious zealot". Give me an old-time conservative any day... we can at least agree on some points. But these neo-conservative nuts? Forget it.
Good luck, Miss Patty. You're gonna need it.
Posted by: Brian | Dec 18, 2006 3:22:48 PM
" Our side is winning the fight for equality, but we must do more in the years ahead to unify all Americans, particularly conservatives, around our common values of freedom and fairness."
What country has this ass wipe been living in?
Posted by: pbnyc59 | Dec 18, 2006 3:33:30 PM
Boo! Hiss!
Posted by: the other jeff | Dec 18, 2006 3:54:48 PM
*Siiiigh*
Gay/Log Cabin republicans are OXYMORONIC and now just plain MORONIC. Any Gay Republican who says that they agree with the ORIGINAL Republic Parties stadards and ethics and have no affiliation to the right-Wing Nuts in Washington are just MORONIC. The Old Republican Party is DEAD. D-E-A-D and isn't coming back. The Wingnuts ARE the Republican Party now and probably will be for awhile.
Personally I have had it with Gay Republicans. If you are out there and gay and a Republican not only are you full of shit. You are a TRAITOR to your comunnity, your lifestyle, and especially yourself and imo should be treated as a pariah.
Posted by: Wolf | Dec 18, 2006 4:30:02 PM
Maybe there should be a new party... one for those who support the original Republical ideals. (One could probably say the same thing for the Democrats.) Our current system leaves much to be desired.
Oh, and Andy... I like the Lewis Payton entries. Keep them coming. (Though I'll say I'd like to have the comments section turned back on, I understand why they aren't. Miss Anita's comment doesn't fill one with holiday cheer.)
Posted by: Brian | Dec 18, 2006 4:38:57 PM
I have to wonder though, does this guy actually think he's going to make a difference, or is he just doing time padding his resume so that in a few years he can get a nice low-stress job with the HRC or something?
And I wonder who broke his nose.
Posted by: John T | Dec 18, 2006 4:47:08 PM
I wish him luck.
I'd rather stick with a political party - the Democrats - whose standard bearers - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - supporting the full range of equality for gay people including gay marriage.
Oh wait a minute...
Posted by: LightningLad | Dec 18, 2006 5:23:12 PM
@Lightning Lad
There are basically two factions who'd love to see HIllary branded as the "standard-bearer" for the Democratic Party: Hillary, and Republicans.
Somehow you forgot to mention Democrats like Sen. Feingold, and Rep. Kucinich, or people like John Conyers who consistently and vigorously fight against knuckle-dragger ploys like the FMA.
The Republican Party platform opposes even the most basic anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation. Can you even name ONE active Republican who supports equal marriage? Not even fellow hypocrite Jim Kolbe passes the test.
Nice try, Cohn-osexual.
Posted by: nuflux | Dec 18, 2006 6:11:47 PM
I will never understand what pisses most fags off so much about an organization struggling to change the GOP from the inside out. What the hell difference does it make to you that they are doing the heavy lifting necessary to lobby a notoriously anti-gay conservative voting bloc? It's so myopic and petty, and so uselessly hateful. Maybe we should try to be a bit more tolerant than the people that hate us, and we might get somewhere.
Posted by: Aatom | Dec 18, 2006 6:13:12 PM
AATOM wites:
"Maybe we should try to be a bit more tolerant than the people that hate us, and we might get somewhere..."
And will the somewhere we'll get have barbedwire and electric fences?
Posted by: FASTLAD | Dec 18, 2006 6:22:50 PM
Lightninglad, while it's true that Democrats aren't always consistent or willing to openly embrace our struggle for equality, they're, as a whole, far, far better for our community than the GOP which actively and relentlessly works to foster bigotry and prejudice against us, pass legislation which oppresses us and which seeks to re-criminalize our personal lives in the name of preserving their warped concept of so-called morality. I would much rather have tepid, tenuous allies that are unlikely to actively try to harm us than to affiliate and engage with people who have nothing else but our destruction on their agenda. LCR's are traitors to themselves and to the Gay community. Their willingness to actively support the GOP and work openly and aggressively against their own self-interest and the well being of our community can only be described as a malicious form of sadomasochistic and/or sociopathic personality disorder that has developed out of their self-loathing and hatred combined with a complete lack of personal self-esteem. They rationalize, justify and make every excuse under the sun possible to explain away their vile act of betrayal, but, in the end, the only people they've deluded into believing them is themselves...
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Dec 18, 2006 6:47:39 PM
lightinglad do you even understand the primary process?
Hillary and Obama are neither heir apperants. just because the 2 of them suck on gay marriage and gays in the millitary isn't a sure sign that the dem nominee will be. (I personaly am hoping for a gore announcement and Gore/ Clark 08)
Retired General Wesley Clark (former head of NATO) hasn't announced yet, but back in 1999 he went on record as 100% pro full and equal marriage rights for us gays as well as 100% full and equal rights to join and serve in the millitary.
Hillary and Obama are DLC= repub lite and both suck but there are deffinetly strong non-DLC dems who are populis and pro gay 100%
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Dec 18, 2006 7:23:46 PM
PS
AATOM
fighting from within the repub party....oh wait a minute, this guy in the article worked with Rick Santorium...so you are saying due to his influence Rosk went with equating homosexuality to beastiality as vs equaiting us to what??? if this guy had not been influncing Ricky "dog love"
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Dec 18, 2006 7:27:14 PM
sorry for my typos
"the edit button is my friend , the edit button is my friend" LOL someday
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Dec 18, 2006 7:29:08 PM
I see comments from a lot of people who don't read the papers or didn't read the article.
Jimmyboyd...this isn't the guy who was Santorium's aide.
Pbnyc...he's been living in the US....your another whiner who thinks because someone calls you a fag that your life is a mass of hurt and pain. Get over it, when you live somewhere, where being gay or even to look or act like your gay is your death warrent, then you can bitch. This goes for fastlad as well.
The best way to show people that gay men and women are not monsters, or child abusers is to make them aware of who and what we really are. People need to see that we are in ALL walks of life, not just knee jerk liberals, but conservatives as well. No other group that is discriminated agianst provides the public with the ammunition to keep them down like the gay's. Parades where we mock religion(sisters of perpetual indilgence), walk with our partners in dog collars, naked and almost fucking on the floats....yep...that will certainly get you loads of respect. If we want respect, we have to give it.
Posted by: joshua | Dec 18, 2006 9:04:49 PM
So, Joshua, how's that strategy been working for ya? Didn't I just hear Bush blathering on again the other day about how if gay marriage became legal that it would usher in the end of the human race and America which is why he was calling, yet again, for a Constitutional Amendment to ban same sex marriage? It seems like that whole give respect to get respect approach, only works when the people you're seeking respect from are willing to give it in the first place. Like Sisyphus, working to earn the respect and consideration gays and lesbians deserve from Republicans is a hopeless struggle...
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Dec 18, 2006 9:39:39 PM
In other news O.J. Simpson just announced he'll be joining the KKK.
Come on, fags in the republican party make me sick. I agree with Brion, why do people want to belong to something that doesn't want them?
Why can't they at least call themselves something else, like, oh, I don't know, Conservative Who Suck Dick But Want To Be Accepted By Christians?
Write them off. In the black community they were called "Uncle Toms". Maybe we should call them "Uncle Gertrudes"
Posted by: Bobby | Dec 18, 2006 9:40:26 PM
"Maybe we should try to be a bit more tolerant than the people that hate us, and we might get somewhere"
Sit back, tolerate hate and you'll make progress. Thank you for beautifully illustrating the futility of the LCR agenda.
Posted by: mark m | Dec 18, 2006 10:13:00 PM
I love how the gay community screams how it "celebrates diversity" of everything except apparently diversity of political philosphy.
"You can be Black, White, Asian, Latino, handicapped, or born without a face...But if you DARE step outside the Democratic reservation, you'll be cut down!"
And it will be interesting to see how many people here vote for Hillary Clinton for President (who I presume will be nominee) despite her stated disagreement with gay marriage.
And yet gay people who vote Republican are consistently labled as "self-loathing." Interesting...
Posted by: LightningLad | Dec 18, 2006 10:17:34 PM
Lightninglad, this is the one case where there simply can be no tolerance. Choosing to facilitate and collaborate with a group of people who's "on the record agenda" is to unashamedly and willfully pursue a political and legislative agenda with the sole intent of preventing us from attaining equality under the law as well as stripping away from us every single hard won legal and civil right our community currently with the stated goal of re-criminalizing our very existence. What possible sort of tolerance for that agenda could you possibly expect ANYONE who is gay to have? The real question you really need to ask yourself is, "why would I support such an agenda and realistically why do I really believe that there is any chance at influencing this agenda from inside the GOP when, if I'm being honest with myself, I already know that they simply will not listen to any dissent or voice of reason which speaks up in opposition to the prescribed anti-gay political and legislative agenda of the Republican Party?"
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Dec 18, 2006 10:50:46 PM
He says: "Our side is winning the fight for equality" and expects not to be laughed at or disregarded?! Seriously?! And in response to LighteningLad: Just b/c i think this guy is a twit doesn't mean i'm automatically in favor of Hillary. WTF is that logic? Are there only Reps & Dems on this blog? Anyway, I wonder if this guy can be given podium space next to Mitt Romney at an anti-gay marriage rally to say again "Our side is winning the fight for equality"
Posted by: Daniel | Dec 18, 2006 11:53:23 PM
Speaking of Obama, its like wherever I go I get two very polar opinions of him. Either he's the Messiah or the Anti-Christ.
Posted by: Damon | Dec 18, 2006 11:59:38 PM
Mantra of the Day: S.E.L.F. H.A.T.E.
Posted by: Max | Dec 19, 2006 4:01:56 AM