It just gets worse and worse over in donkeyland…

Democrats abolish gay outreach for ‘integrated’ approach

Gay Dem resigns in protest over Dean’s decision

WASHINGTON – Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean has abolished the Democratic Party’s constituent outreach desks, including the post of director of lesbian and gay outreach.

A DNC spokesperson said Dean replaced the outreach director positions with a new program called the American Majority Partnership, which integrates efforts to address the concerns of minorities into all of the DNC’s departments and offices. The little noticed move took place last year.

"It’s an expansion of what we had before," said Damien LaVera, the DNC spokesperson assigned to discuss gay rights issues.

But the former chair of the DNC’s Gay & Lesbian Americans Caucus doesn’t see it that way. Gay Democratic Party activist and fundraiser Jeff Soref of New York City said he resigned from the DNC and from his position as chair of the gay caucus in August largely because of Dean’s decision to eliminate the gay outreach desk.

"It took us many years to win that position, have it funded and make it effective," Soref said.

Soref said he told Dean "it was not credible" to simply assume that combining all constituent groups into one program without a specific gay coordinator or director would be effective because it would likely result in less attention to the specific concerns of gay Democrats.

"I thought this system could lead to us being re-marginalized by the party," Soref said in an e-mail message. "I have seen or heard nothing since that makes me feel that is not happening," he said.

This is in-fucking-credible. I can’t believe this. You have to figure they just don’t give a good goddamn about gay voters. Maybe putting Tim Kaine’s face on TV the other day wasn’t just typcial democratic party stupidity. Maybe they really do think that gutter crawling bigot is the face of the party’s future. Karl Rove must be dancing a jig over all this.

Maybe I will re-register as an independent…