A gay Republican news story that you probably didn't read about in the paper: In late August,
Ralph Gonzalez--Republican strategist, former Georgia GOP executive director, and
"political powerhouse"--was
murdered (along with his roommate, David Abrami, another Republican political consultant) by Gonzalez' "friend" and former Marine Jason Robert Drake. Characterized as the result of a "lovers' quarrel," it's a bizarre crime story that should've made at least a ripple in the national news, given some other
recent incidents. But it never did.
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posted by cowboy_sally
on Sep 19, 2007 -
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Two recent provocative articles about the the male-hooker-in-the-White-House-press-corps story:
An analysis from Monday's
Philly Inquirer asserts the flap is "far from over" and includes a cautionary quote: "The Bush people are challenging all the old assumptions about how to work the press. They are ambitious - visionary, if you will - in ways that Washington has yet to fathom." Meanwhile,
this Feb 24 blog post from lefty David Corn calls Gannon's alleged anti-gay articles "pretty tame stuff" that didn't "automatically qualify him for outing," and cautions knee-jerking progressives that "there is nothing inherently wrong with allowing journalists with identifiable biases to pose questions to the White House press secretary and even the president."
[last Gannon thread] [MeTa thread about appropriateness of another front-page Gannon post]
posted by mediareport
on Mar 1, 2005 -
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