CA-37: Already As Ugly As Can Be

Read Juls. At some point we're going to have to get a grip on this persistent identity politics. If someone has an antipathy to GLBT issues and GLBT legislation, that's fair game in politics. But the whole tenor of this campaign, with it's explicit appeals to racial unity, is really the antithesis of what we should be talking about in 2007 in a Congressional race. I don't think you're going to hear a policy discussion between now and June 26.

(If you don't want to go read, Sheila Kuehl called Laura Richardson homophobic, while the African American community wants Valerie McDonald out of the race so blacks can unite to defeat a Latina. It's unseemly, and it's only a few days into it)