Gay Baiting Ritter Goes Down!!

There's no doubt Ritter is a jerk for his pandering stance, and i'll take that back...perhaps foley is not too liberal for the distict. It would be interesting to see if the absentee voters would have changed their choice had they known of Ritter's stance, and I'm curious what effect this issue would have had on the race had it surfaced earlier. Foley deserves credit for his view. I am neither a Foley nor a Ritter supporter, I voted for the lady who came in third. I will give Ritter this credit though......Foley had the endorsement of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, a lot of the unions, Cleveland Councilwoman Dona Brady, Skindell, and others.......Erin Sullivan had the endorsement of Dem State Chair Chris Redfern, Rep. Degeeter, Cleveland Councilman Dolan, and a bunch of councilmen from the suburban part of the district....Ritter had two suburban councilman, and a suburban mayor...he didn't have the big guns Foley and Sullivan had...but he won.

Ya, indeed he did. Looks like those who voted absentee didn't get to hear Bill getting embarassed by his late gay baiting trick.

100 votes doesn't sound like he was "too liberal" for the district. I applaud Mike Foley for taking the principled stand and still think Bill Ritter is a jerk for taking the position he has. I won't apologize for that.

Thanks for the compliment.

Ritter won! the absentee vote is in. Although your site is a "progressive playground", the district is not progressive, the State Rep. District is overwhelmingly convservative Democrat, pro-life, and voted over 2-1 against gay marriage in 2004, ... Foley was too liberal for the district, and people knew that. Although Ritter is against gay marriage, Democrats in the district didn't care. Personally, I would just assume let a person marry a turtle if they wanted to. I do think Ritter learned a lesson on this issue and from your call. Like your website.

I believe the absentee ballots have not yet been counted. Let's hope Foley hangs on.

All of us who blogged this and Ted Wendling at the PD deserve a toast! The warning shot across the bow.

another night, another drink...
it's a great life isn't it?

He fell asleep at his keyboard election night.
You helped keep him up all night before the election with the phone calls.

You deserve that pint.

;-)