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compiled by Q-Notes staff
National political and elections update
CHICAGO, m. —Three
John Edwards bows out
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Former Sen. John
Edwards (D-NC) announced Jan. 30 that he was
ending his bid for the presidency. After Edwards
made his announcement, he worked with the
local Habitat for Humanity chapter in their con
tinued effort to rebuild from the devastation
caused by Hurricane
Katrina in August 2005.
“Eve spoken to both
Senator Clinton and
Senator Obama. They
have both pledged to me
and more importantly
through me to America,
that they will make end
ing poverty central to
their campaign for the presidency’ Edwards
said in his last campaign speech. “And more
importantly, they have pledged to me, that as
President of the United States they will make
ending poverty and economic inequality cen
tral to their presidency This is the cause of my
life and I now have their connnitment to
engage in this cause.”
Eric Stern, a former Edwards campaign
LGBT advisor now supporting Sen. Barack
Obama (D-IL), said in an email to friends and
supporters, “Through John’s bold vision and
ideas, we have reminded Democrats of the
work we must do to ensure that all Americans
have access to affordable health care, education
and a living wage. John’s tireless advocacy on
behalf of working class Americans has
changed the course of this election. While I
will do everything I can to help elect a
Democratic president, it is imperative that our
nominee carry on John’s battle to ensure that
the American dream is available to everyone.”
Only a few days after Edwards’ departure
from the campaign trail, 37 of the 59 LGBT lead
ers, activists and community members who ,
announced their support of Edwards in October,
publicly endorsed Obama. The announcement
was made in an article exclusively published
online by The Advocate on Feb. 1
Clinton addresses gay teen suicide
In a video posted on YouTube in late
January, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton (D-NY) addressed the high
rate of suicide among LGBT teenagers.
Emily Dawkins, Clinton’s director of
youth outreach, posed a supporter’s ques
tion, “Considering the
extraordinarily high
incidence of depres
sion and suicide
among gay teenagers,
what action will you,
as president, take to
encourage a more
accepting and healthy
educational experience for LGBT teens?”
Stating that the suicide rate was a serious
problem and one that she had “done a lot of
work on ... in New York,” Clinton said she would
do everything she could to “send a clear message
that we value you. We value you as a person, you
as a total person. And we want you to feel accept
ed and respected in your community?’
At the end of her statement, Clinton called
days before the “Super Tuesday” Feb. 5 primary,
LGBT activist members of the Gay Liberation
Network took to the streets to challenge presi
dential candidates’positions on LGBT issues.
The Gay Liberation Network, Chicago’s
LGBT “direct action organization,” organized a
march around the city’s “Loop” demanding
that each presidential candidate stand up for
legal equality for all LGBT people. The march
was held in commemoration of Marriage
Equality Day 2008.
The activists said that all the Republican
candidates have “repudiated support for gay
legal equality’ They added that most of the
support given by Democratic candidates is
“public relations rhetoric.”
“Each candidate knows the difference
between civil unions and equal marriage rights
(Obama is a former constitutional law profes
sor!),” the group said in a press release.“But they
play ignorant and refuse
to endorse equal marriage
rights, never straying from
carefully scripted, poll-
tested responses.”
The organization said
the candidates also “pre
fer that we ‘shut up’ about
their failure to truly sup
port equality?’
Obama receives Kennedy family
endorsements
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) received two
key endorsements from the Kennedy family at
the end of January. First, Caroline Kennedy, the
only daughter of President John F. Kennedy,
endorsed Obama in a Jan. 27 New York Times
op-ed entitled “A President Like My Father.”
The second Kennedy endorsement came
from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). On Jan.
28, the Massachusetts senator appeared
with his niece Caroline, son Rep. Patrick
Kennedy (D-RI) and Obama at a rally on the
campus of American University in
Washington, D.C.
“Every time I’ve been asked over the past
year who I would support in the Democratic
primary. I’ve always said the same thing,” said
Sen. Kennedy. “I said I’ll support a candidate
who inspires me, who inspires all of us...who
can lift our vision anckrenew our belief that
our country’s best days are still to come. I’ve
found that candidate.”
Sen. Kennedy said Sens. Clinton and
Edwards are his friends and colleagues and
he affirmed his respect for both.
Caroline Kennedy wrote in The New York
Times, “I’ve been deeply moved by the peo
ple who’ve told me they wished they could
feel inspired and hopeful about America the
way people did when my father was presi
dent. This sense is even more profound
today That is why I am supporting a presi
dential candidate in the Democratic primar
ies, Barack Obama.”
However, not all of the Kennedy clan is
throwing their support behind Obama.
Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Katherine Kennedy
Townsend, the oldest of Sen. Robert Kennedy’s
children, and two of her siblings have tipped
their hats toward Clinton. D
8 FEBRUARY 9.2008 • Q-NOTES