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Pennsylvania: Sue Kerr

November 1, 2009 - 10:23 am
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I'll be on Sister ShOUT today

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)


Sue Kerr and Laura Dunhoff have been making 'history with Pittsburgh's first "lesbian" video broadcast/podcast.' Today's show will be their ninth weekly broadcast.

With the election this Tuesday, I've been invited to guest on a 90 minute edition focusing on various candidates. Expect call-ins from folks like Kevin Acklin and Franco Dok Harris.

You can watch Sister ShOUT live at 5:00 PM today at http://sistershout.outonline.com
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June 30, 2009 - 07:02 pm
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Eichelberger Faces His Critics

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

(H/t to Think Progress)

Here's the entire clip:

Think Progress has a transcript:SPEAKER: So are you going to apologize to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Pennsylvania — and all the people in Pennsylvania for those comments about allowing to exist and calling them dysfunctional.

EICHELBERGER: No, I think you know my answer to that. Thank you very much. And Sue Kerr gets a shout out at Think Progress:Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, an LGBT blog in Pennsylvania, writes, “It is one thing to disapprove of my identity or believe it is a choice, but quite another thing to suggest that I am permitted to exist in spite of my identity. Should I be grateful to Senator Eichelberger for not condoning someone taking away my existence?”Congratulations to Sue!

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June 28, 2009 - 10:10 pm
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Allegheny Council Human Relations Ordinance

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Curious email/text message floating around (don't know if you've received it yet). Here's the text I got:
Onorato. 4123506500. Remove language from Human Relations ordinance that allows orgs that get County funding to discriminate. 100 calls on Mo
A bit too cryptic for me, but then again I am middle-aged, balding and paunchy - I know I'm no Helmholtz Watson, but I fear I am actually Bernard Marx - (and a brave new donut to you if you get the literary reference). It took me a few minutes to figure out the text message was from Sue Kerr over at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents.

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June 5, 2009 - 06:09 am
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Potter's Post-Mortem on District 6 Election

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Read it here.

The core of his article:

So ... how did Tonya Payne, a one-term incumbent, lose to Daniel Lavelle? How could Payne, who beat Sala Udin in 2005, lose to Udin's former assistant just four years later?

On paper, these races were very similar. In both, Payne was running against either Udin or his ally. And in both, the same dark-horse candidate -- school board member Mark Brentley -- was also in the running. So how did Lavelle find the means to defeat her this time around?

The answer is simple: He didn't. Payne beat herself.

There's lots of really interesting numbers to support his conclusion.

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