Gay, pro-choice GOPer Curtis Bashaw wins New Jersey U.S. Senate primary
His nomination gives Republicans hope they could pick up a Senate seat in the solidly blue state.
JUNE 7, 2024
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His nomination gives Republicans hope they could pick up a Senate seat in the solidly blue state.
This could be the year Democrats officially embrace marriage equality.
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Democratic senators have released their annual survey of staff diversity, and LGBTQ+ representation has risen.
Senate Democrats are trying to force President Bush to sign hate crimes legislation he has threatened to veto by attaching it to a massive bill funding the Defense Department and the Iraq war. Writing violent attacks on gays into federal hate crime laws is related to the war because both are strikes against terrorism, according to a Republican senator and other supporters of the measure.
The Senate attached hate-crimes legislation to a must-pass Pentagon spending bill Thursday, but opponents predicted it ultimately would fail. In a bipartisan vote of 60-39, the Senate accepted cloture, which ended debate on the bill, and then moved to approve the Matthew Shepard Act by a voice vote -- attaching it as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization Bill. ''The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the defense authorization bill,'' said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. ''This bill will get vetoed.''
Politicians, aware the queer electorate could swing their races, are specifically reaching out to LGBTQ voters.
Vice President Mike Pence, in his capacity as president of the Senate, cast a tie-breaking vote to confirm Brownback.
Aided by public revulsion over a cybersex scandal involving gay former congressman Mark Foley, Democrats enter the final month of the midterm election campaign well-positioned to challenge control of Congress, while Republicans increasingly express concern about holding on to power.