News
2006-09-14
Minnesota
Republican wins, other gay candidates fail in Tuesday
primaries
Koering wins in
Minnesota, but other gay candidates lose
While Minnesota
While Minnesota
GOP state senator Paul Koering, who came out as gay since
his last election, beat back a primary challenge from an
antigay opponent, and same-sex marriage advocate Eliot
Spitzer decisively won New York's Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, other gay and gay-friendly
candidates lost in their primary battles Tuesday. Sean
Patrick Maloney, an openly gay New York lawyer vying
to be that state's Democratic candidate for attorney
general, was bested by political scion Andrew Cuomo.
And fellow Democrats Anthony McCarthy and Mary Washington,
who were trying to become the first black gay members
of Maryland's house of delegates, were also defeated.
"I think I won because I continued to run a
positive campaign," Koering said, according to the St.
Paul Pioneer Press. "In this race I had
everything thrown at me that could possibly be thrown
at me, and I still won." His opponent, city councilman
Kevin Goedker, had said he asked voters to decide
the race based on their values but said he was not opposing
Koering because he's gay.
Meanwhile, Spitzer, who beat his primary
challenger by an overwhelming margin, has said he
supports marriage equality and will work to create
legislation in New York granting it. (AP contributed to this
report)
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