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pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
7. The Human Rights Campaign may have endorsed her for Congress two years ago BUT
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 12:45 AM
Jan 2019

it also endorsed a Republican running against Tammy Duckworth.

I don't know what's with that group but they're not making a lot of sense. The leader of the Hawaiian LGBT Caucus has spoken out against Gabbard. One thing he's still angry about is she refused to help a same-sex marriage bill get passed in Hawaii 5 years ago -- but Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz did help.

https://mauitime.com/news/politics/heres-why-the-hawaii-lgbt-caucus-doesnt-support-rep-tulsi-gabbards-reelection-campaign/

“Just so you know the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) does not speak for the entire or even a majority of the LGBTQ community, especially after they endorsed Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth’s republican challenger for the US Sentate [sic],” Golojuch added in his email to Tsuji.

“The HRC has been out of step with local politics and needs,” Golojuch told MauiTime. He also said he felt insulted that “a straight person” would try to school the Caucus on who they should support. And, he added, the Caucus had “reached out to” Gabbard during the 2013 Legislative Special Session on same-sex marriage, only to be rebuffed. “We were told that Congresswoman Gabbard doesn’t get involved in state politics,” he said, though he noted that Representative Colleen Hanabusa and Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz had sent people to testify in support of the same-sex marriage bill.

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