U-T San Diego editor Jeff Light recently revealed a strong Republican bias going in to the city’s 2012 mayoral race, according to reports from KPBS News. Recently, Light was recorded in conversation with Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, saying that the latter’s decision to leave the Republican party puts the paper in a difficult position and explaining [...]
The Mayor’s Race For what will likely be San Diego LGBT Weekly’s final mayoral Q&A, Nathan Fletcher came to our offices in Banker’s Hill to be interviewed on vital topics ranging from the local economy to the city’s wide array of social issues. Fletcher had a one-word answer to the big question: “Do you support [...]
Recently appointed Mitt Romney spokesperson Richard Grenell has resigned from the GOP hopeful’s presidential campaign, citing pressure from anti-gay conservatives as a primary motivator for his decision. Grenell, who is openly gay and a staunch Republican, was hired to assist Romney in articulating his foreign policy message along the campaign trail. However, according to Washington [...]
Saturday, April 28 saw the occasion of the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, at which President Obama opened the festivities with a humorous stand-up routine that left few of his opponents unscathed. The Boston Globe reports that the President also made fun of himself, as well as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (who he [...]
Some people think that I am not a supporter of Carl DeMaio. The truth is that I cannot stomach those who put their personal career above the well-being of our community. DeMaio recently stated that he is not running on social issues; this is evidenced by his fundraiser hosted by former mayor of San Diego, [...]
Mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher has doubled his support for the San Diego mayoral race after dropping the GOP according to a recent scientific poll conducted by 10News. The announcement is fresh on the heels of Fletcher’s announcement two weeks ago that he will no longer act on behalf of the Republican party, [...]
Why I stood up during the debate … American journalism is sometimes referred to as “The Fourth Estate” – a fourth quasi-branch of government – more specifically, a fourth check-and-balance on the power of our government and elected officials. In fact, the role of the press as defender of freedom is enshrined within the First [...]
LGBT Weekly social media reporter, Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, who is a veteran of the Iraq War and who is Puerto Rican, was likened to a feces-throwing monkey in a Twitter post from an account owned by the life partner of the leading San Diego mayoral candidate, City Councilman Carl DeMaio. The tweet in question contained a [...]
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released never-before-seen financial documents Friday from the National Organization for Marriage showing a $10,000 donation from Mitt Romney’s PAC in 2008. HRC called on Mitt Romney to disavow the racially divisive tactics of the National Organization for [...]
Hours before a highly anticipated LGBT mayoral forum at The Center, sponsored by San Diego Democrats for Equality, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher announced that he has decided to leave the Republican Party and will become an independent. Fletcher said that he has struggled with the decision but came to it in an effort to do “what [...]
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