{"id":41067,"date":"2011-10-30T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/democrat-incumbent-for-va-senate-campaign-aide-why-would-you-want-to-vote-for-a-homosexual\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:45:03","slug":"democrat-incumbent-for-va-senate-campaign-aide-why-would-you-want-to-vote-for-a-homosexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-incumbent-for-va-senate-campaign-aide-why-would-you-want-to-vote-for-a-homosexual.php","title":{"rendered":"Democrat incumbent for VA Senate campaign aide: &quot;Why would you want to vote for a Homosexual?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-B1lwOjfJi4U\/Tqlt3s-40DI\/AAAAAAAAWmk\/J_qHWuIs8_A\/s1600\/JanetHowellVADemSenate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b57c1_JanetHowellVADemSenate.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Bob McDonnell comes to the defense of the Republican challenger<\/strong><\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/libertarian-in-charlottesville\/va-gov-bob-mcdonnell-says-gop-stands-for-equal-opportunity-for-all\">Charlottesville Examiner<\/a>, \"Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell says GOP stands for &lsquo;equal opportunity for all&rsquo;\":<\/p><blockquote><p>According to press reports, the reelection campaign of Democratic state Senator Janet Howell, a 20-year incumbent from Virginia&rsquo;s 32nd senate district, has been appealing to anti-gay prejudices as a tactic against Republican challenger Patrick Forrest.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MOhbp5HMy6Y\/TqluDjjPw4I\/AAAAAAAAWmw\/gV7-2BxZd9A\/s1600\/patrickforrestVAGOP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b57c1_patrickforrestVAGOP.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>In an audio recording obtained by the Washington Blade, Howell campaign volunteer is heard exclaiming:  &ldquo;What my campaign is saying is here&rsquo;s your Republican candidate. He&rsquo;s a homosexual. Why would you want to vote for someone who&rsquo;s a homosexual and is going to push his agenda in your schools?&rdquo;  (Excerpts of the recording were published in the Blade on October 14.)<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Governor McDonnell interviewed by the Examiner:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what she&rsquo;s doing but I can only say that Patrick and I -- and I think all of us in our party -- stand for equal opportunities for all people.  I think you heard his message about job creation.  He&rsquo;s not focused on divisive social issues.  He&rsquo;s focused on the two things that really matter, getting people back to work and getting our spending and our government under control, and I think that&rsquo;s what people care about, especially independent voters right now.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b57c1_7828681836623105417-5291882068749088708?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob McDonnell comes to the defense of the Republican challengerFrom the Charlottesville Examiner, \"Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell says GOP stands for &lsquo;equal opportunity for all&rsquo;\":According to press reports, the reelection campaign of Democratic state Senator Janet Howell, a 20-year incumbent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-incumbent-for-va-senate-campaign-aide-why-would-you-want-to-vote-for-a-homosexual.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}