HRC Endorses U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath for Reelection

HRC announced the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath for re-election.

Rep. Lucy McBath has spoken out against the Trump-Pence administration’s discriminatory trans military ban and supports the Equality Act — crucial bipartisan legislation that would finally provide clear, comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide. McBath’s commitment to gun reform is unmatched and aligns with HRC’s own goal to reduce gun violence. Over the next year, HRC will devote significant resources to turning out the 1.2 million Equality Voters across the state of Georgia to ensure pro-equality leaders like Rep. McBath remain in, or are elected to office. McBath also spoke at HRC’s Atlanta Dinner in 2019.

“Congresswoman McBath has been a steadfast ally of the LGBTQ community and a leading voice on combating gun violence during her first term in Congress,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “In 2018, voters sent a clear message by rejecting the politics of fear and division and sending bold pro-equality champions like Lucy McBath to Washington. Now, it’s time to make sure those leaders have the support they need to continue to work on behalf of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. The Human Rights Campaign is proud to endorse Congresswoman McBath’s bid for reelection and we look forward to continuing to fight alongside her for full equality.”

“I am proud to earn the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign,” said Rep. Lucy McBath. “I will always fight for what is right and work tirelessly to ensure that everyone is treated fairly. I stand in stark contrast to my extremist opponent, Karen Handel, who scoffed at the idea of supporting equality for all.”

In 2017, HRC released a video of Karen Handel openly admitting she did not believe LGBTQ families were as legitimate as other families. During her failed gubernatorial bid, Handel also advocated against allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. Handel’s anti-LGBTQ record and attacks on a woman’s right to choose are completely disqualifying.

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Ken Starr’s Unironic Lamentation About the ‘Age of Impeachment’ is Much Better with a Laugh Track: WATCH

On Monday, Trump (and Clinton) impeachment lawyer Ken Starr said this, without irony: “The Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently. Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the ‘Age of Impeachment.’ … How did we get here, with presidential impeachment invoked frequently?”

Wrote Vox: “He led Republican efforts in the House to investigate Clinton, and published his findings in what became known as the Starr Report, a document that was far more showy than Mueller’s work, and one that made an express recommendation, finding Clinton’s conduct ‘may constitute grounds for impeachment.’ … Starr made the case impeachment has become a tit-for-tat exercise. ‘Instead of a once in a century phenomenon, which it had been, presidential impeachment has become a weapon to be wielded against one’s political opponent,’ he said. Which of course, ignores his own role in making it a spectacle, and the differences between past impeachments and the current one.”

Vox’s Aaron Rupar appropriately added a laugh track.

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Ken Starr’s Unironic Lamentation About the ‘Age of Impeachment’ is Much Better with a Laugh Track: WATCH

Why My Friend Silvio Horta’s Life and Death Matter

Andy Maher pens a remembrance of his late friend Silvio Horta, the creator of Ugly Betty.

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