Jordan Palmer | Activist | Public Figure: November 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Warning about extending your anger with federal politics to state politics

It is difficult for me to believe that the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and intersex community in Kentucky is so cynical that they would vote against their own interests as published in the following stories:

Democrats earned their drubbing (from the Washington Blade, the largest LGBTI newspaper)
Gay voters angry at Democrats could sway Election
Will angry gay voters punish the Dems?

Yes, we have the Log Cabin Republicans fighting for LGBTI rights within the Republican Party, and I am proud to have them, just as we have the Stonewall Democrats fighting for LGBTI rights within the Democratic Party. However, the Log Cabin Republicans have had limited success in curtailing conservative social agendas, and now we have the anti-gay Tea Party to contend with.

Take a look at the argument I had with one person running for Kentucky office next year as a perfect example; is this what we want our future to be? I dedicated the name of this blog, "Kentucky Spirit" in defiance to his statements.

If the Commonwealth of Kentucky had all the political money that it's political candidates have wasted in this election with mudslinging, Kentucky would be out of debt. Perhaps we need a law that limits campaign spending and contributions?

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Kentucky Spirit is the official blog of Col. Jordan Bowling Palmer. The Honorable Jordan Palmer has been a critical part of civil liberties in the commonwealth of Kentucky and is also a public advocate.

CURRENT POSITIONS HELD:

Col. Palmer is Secretary-General of the Southern Kentucky Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (also knows as the Southern Kentucky Brigade of Kentucky Colonels).

Col. Palmer is the Secretary-General of the Kentucky Equality Federation and its member organizations, including Kentucky Equal Ballot Access, etc.

Col. Palmer is the Principal Liasion at the United Nations for the United States Midwest for ILGA.

ABOUT COL. JORDAN BOWLING PALMER, CHA, CP, JD:

Col. Jordan Bowling Palmer has been in active in civil rights and a public advocate for over a decade.

--> From protesting former Governor Fletcher and later Representative Fischer for saying "gays had not suffered enough", sponsoring a Soulforce Equality Ride, forcing school boards to allow Gay-Straight Alliances, rallying at Northern Kentucky University and the Hazard Pavilion, forcing policy changes, organizing Kentucky's 1st Gay Marriage License Day, assisting in restoring KADAP, to successfully pushing the 1st Federal Hate Crime convictions in U.S. History, to having Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban struck down by a Kentucky judge months before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue in Kentucky Equality Federation v Commonwealth of Kentucky (based solely on Palmer's legal theory). His accomplishments speak for themselves and his impact on Kentucky history, undeniable.

Jordan Palmer also fought Prop 8 in the state of California.

Written by Damon T. Jones, Communications Director to Secretary-General Palmer.

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