GOP lawyer in Prop 8 lawsuit hailed as ‘impassioned’ advocate

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http://www.sovo.com/2009/6-5/news/national/10194.cfm

National gay groups oppose federal litigation for same-sex marriage

Friday, Jun 05, 2009 | By: LOU CHIBBARO JR.

The gay Democratic activist who initiated a controversial lawsuit filed last week to challenge California’s Proposition 8 on federal constitutional grounds said he was both surprised and moved earlier this year when he interviewed Theodore “Ted” Olson as a possible lead counsel on behalf of two same-sex couples.

Olson is a former U.S. Solicitor General under the administration of the first President Bush in the late 1980s. He is known as a brilliant legal theorist and strategist for the Republican conservative movement. He’s credited with winning the highly contentious U.S. Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore that cleared the way for George W. Bush to win the 2000 presidential election.

“I walked out of that meeting and I realized that I might have just met with perhaps one of the most articulate, impassioned spokespersons for our movement,” said Chad Griffin, president of the newly created American Foundation for Equal Rights.

“I called Ted as an openly gay man and a progressive Democrat,” Griffin said, noting that advisors suggested he contact Olson in a long shot attempt to line up a bipartisan legal team for the Proposition 8 challenge.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Aaaaaak! Misplaced post!

[Gman]

2. Does Olsen have stage 4 cancer?

or something similar? Why make amends for his crimes now?

[keepCAblue]

3. If you had read the post...

it states he has been an advocate for LGBT rights for 10 years. Perhaps it illustrates, as Chad Griffin had hoped, that the issue of LGBT rights are bipartisan. My spouse works for a commercial real estate company wherein 90% of the brokers there are wealthy and republican. They ALL support LGBT rights, celebrated our wedding and voted against Prop 8.

If you can get past the Bush v Gore case (in which case Olson was just doing what he was paid for), try looking at the years of experience, inside knowledge and successful track record has in arguing before the SCOTUS.

[Gman]

4. Oh, no... it's much, much deeper than Bush v Gore

it goes to the Arkansas Project and much more. Olsen should have done time in prison for lying to Congress about his involvement in the Arkansas Project. During his confirmation hearing, the SOB actually had the gall to say he didn't know what the Arkansas Project was.

I'm still not sorry for laughing at him when Babs was killed during 9/11. A month later he had a drop dead gorgeous blonde on his arm. They Olsen is scum.