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:Eric Ethington (Author) | November 17, 2012
Former Utah Governor, and the head of Mitt Romney’s transition team, Mike Leavitt is encouraging states to comply with Obamacare and setup insurance exchanges, rather than leaving things to the Feds. Last week, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that members of the Utah Legislature had sent a letter to Governor Gary Herbert, demanding that Utah [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 18, 2012
Republican candidate for Congress in Utah’s 2nd District, Chris Stewart, is claiming in the Salt Lake Tribune that he never took any stimulus funds, but it turns out.. he’s lying. Earlier today, 2nd Congressional District candidate Jay Seegmiller pointed out the hypocrisy of his Republican opponent Chris Stewart campaigning against the stimulus, when he himself [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 19, 2011
Oakland, California – Federal Judge Claudia Wilken has just made a landmark ruling which may destroy many of the provisions within the Defense of Marriage Act. Among other things, she has ruled that state employees can sue the federal government for discrimination against same sex partners. H/T Talk About Equality Despite the Obama Administration’s request [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 31, 2010
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just released a video of himself being interviewed by the Mormon-owned group National Organization For Marriage where he vows to pass a federal marriage ban if Prop 8 is overturned. With this new congress… Ok, it’s true that Steele is just posing for his reelection bid as RNC Chair [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 15, 2010
Are you a federal employee? If you are you received a letter from your insurance company today letting you know that you can now insure your pets, including poochies, kitties, parrots and bunnies. Oh but your same sex partner? No, they’re still screwed. Wow… just, wow. Federal employees are now eligible for discounts on healthcare [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | September 23, 2010
The Iowa Family Policy Center announced to the public that at their September 2009 board meeting the decision had been made to stop accepting Federal Funds. But here we are a year later and now we’re finding out they’ve continued to accept the funds – to the tune of $3,000,000. This is the same group [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 17, 2010
From the desk of Lisa Keen at keennewsservice.com: There were so many people trying to get in to watch the final day of the landmark trial challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban, the court staff had to set up an additional overflow room for observers. Those dozen or so members of the public who managed to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 15, 2010
Roll Call breaks the story: The House ethics committee has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as “spouses” for the purposes of filling out their annual Congressional financial disclosure forms. The proposed change is found in new draft instructions for those financial disclosure forms, which lawmakers and senior staffers [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.