Monday, June 1, 2009

Andre Bauer? Glenn McConnell?

After enforcing some party discipline, Indigo Journal drops a post that will either reverberate all over the place for who knows how long, or prove as lame a gay scandal in the aborning as the Anaconda-Mike Rogers SC GOP blackmail fluff of last January (which Waldo more or less fell for, more fool he). But for calling out some names, former congressional candidate Linda Ketner is definitely doubling down:

An alert reader pointed us in the direction of FireDogLake, where Linda Ketner didn't just a bomb sure to roil the SC political waters like nobody's business - she went nuclear:

I asked her if she thought being upfront about being gay, even campaigning with her partner of 9 years, Beth Huntley, impacted the race. "When you lose by such a tight margin, anything could have played a role." In focus groups she found that people didn't care about her personal sexual preference but respected her honesty. "We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably in anyplace in the United States; they're just not out of the closet. We have an awful lot of people in the closet-- Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who's our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor... I obviously lost the conservative, religious crazy vote, but I would have anyway because I'm pro-choice... It got more national attention than it did local attention; it was no secret to anybody around here." She actually won in Charleston County.

1 comment:

  1. Rumors about Bauer and Graham are longstanding. The only time I ever heard anything about McConnell was in an old oppo report.

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