{"id":192644,"date":"2009-03-10T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/10\/do-not-reward-the-incompetent\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T22:15:00","slug":"do-not-reward-the-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/10\/do-not-reward-the-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Reward the Incompetent"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve heard complaints about the people who campaigned against Proposition 8 in California, I’ve not followed it closely, but the following is unbelievable<\/a>. Anyone who had anything to do with the “No on 8” campaign should never be hired as a political consultant ever again: <\/p>\n

At the forum, Kors said turning the campaign over to the consultants was “a huge mistake.”<\/p>\n

Smith also acknowledged that the campaign should have used then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s stated opposition to Prop 8. Instead, little use was made of Obama’s opposition in a letter last June to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, and right before Election Day the Yes on 8 campaign sent out a mailer featuring Obama’s image and quotes that he is opposed to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

“That was a close call,” Smith said. “Maybe we should have.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe you should have? Maybe<\/span> you should have?<\/p>\n

This is so phenomenally stupid it beggars the imagination.<\/p>\n

Smith said that people outside the Bay Area wouldn’t know what the Alice Club was, but club Co-Chair Susan Christian spoke up and said that in fact, Obama’s letter to the club been widely reported, including in the New York Times<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Win or lose at the California Supreme Court, and the indications are that it will be a lose, this will<\/span> be on the ballot as an initiative petition in 2010, and job 1 is to ensure that the folks who ran “No on 8” don’t get into positions of authority on this.<\/p>\n

See here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a> for better written outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve heard complaints about the people who campaigned against Proposition 8 in California, I’ve not followed it closely, but the following is unbelievable. Anyone who had anything to do with the “No on 8” campaign should never be hired as a political consultant ever again: At the forum, Kors said turning the campaign over …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1030,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192644"}],"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=192644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}