{"id":189807,"date":"2010-02-10T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/garden-state-equality-will-no-longer-give-to-the-new-jersey-democratic-party\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:55:00","slug":"garden-state-equality-will-no-longer-give-to-the-new-jersey-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/garden-state-equality-will-no-longer-give-to-the-new-jersey-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden State Equality Will No Longer Give to the New Jersey Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/02\/nj-gay-rights-abandons-democrats\/\">sick and tired of supporting Democrats who don&#8217;t deliver on their promises<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The largest gay-rights advocacy group in New Jersey has announced it will no longer give money to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the state legislature&#8217;s failure last month to legalize gay marriage and amid growing signs that the effort to repeal &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; is already faltering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No political party has a record good enough on LGBT civil rights that it can rightfully claim to be entitled to our money on a party-wide basis,&#8221; said the chairman of Garden State Equality, Steven Goldstein, as quoted at PolitickerNJ.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo longer will we let any political party take our money and volunteers with one hand, and slap us in the face with the other when we seek full equality,&#8221; Goldstein added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s mirrors on a state level John Aravosis&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/boycott-is-getting-results.html\">Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Give<\/a>,&#8221; donor boycott, and quite honestly, considering how the Democratic Party acts as a party, you just don&#8217;t see vigorous party whips on gay rights issues, this may be the only way to get results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that they are sick and tired of supporting Democrats who don&#8217;t deliver on their promises: The largest gay-rights advocacy group in New Jersey has announced it will no longer give money to the Democratic Party. The move follows the state legislature&#8217;s failure last month to legalize gay marriage and amid growing signs that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,971,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}