Austinite Could Become First Openly Gay US Attorney in Texas...

[SidDithers]

Texas may get its first openly gay U.S. attorney. The San Antonio Express-News reports President Obama is set to nominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Lee Pitman of Austin as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, an area that stretches from El Paso to Austin.

“These nominees have proven to be tenacious and diligent in their pursuit of justice and I am honored to nominate them to serve their fellow Americans as U.S. attorneys,” Obama said in a release sent to the Justice Department and Texas senators in advance of the expected nominations.

Pitman was recommended by U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, two Texas politicians not exactly known for their gay rights advocacy. The Human Rights Campaign – a gay rights group – gave both Hutchison and Cornyn a zero in their annual scorecards.

When the Dallas Morning News revealed in 2009 that the Texas Senators had endorsed Pitman, it angered some social conservatives, according to the legal news blog Main Justice.

http://www.kutnews.org/post/austinite-could-become-first-openly-gay-us-attorney-texas

Sid

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Thanks, Sid. Don't know if this will get much response

Not anything positive from Texas gets recognized much here. But anyway, thanks again for sharing this, and have a happy Canada Day.

[SidDithers]

2. Hey, thanks for Canada Day thing...

:hi:

Sid

[readmoreoften]

3. Also, the nominee is a Republican. Let's not forget that.

[Sheepshank]

4. A Republican nominee in Texas...say it ain't so!!!!

.....you were perhaps thinking a Dem had a snowballs chance?

A gay Rep, interesting situation to say the least.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Who is the nominator?

I expect Democrats to nominate Democrats, don't you?

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ej510]

6. Austin as a city is closer to Berkeley than it is to any part of Texas.

Austin is a progressive college town.

[TheKentuckian]

7. I don't care who he fucks, I care about he believes and what kind of decisions he hands down

Whooptiefuckindoo!

That is like getting excited at the possibility of Alan Keyes being the first black Senator from Illinois or Margaret Thatcher being Prime Minister or Michelle Bachman being the first woman President.

[treestar]

9. Good job on this issue today, Sid.

:yourock:

We still have that group out there who can't deal with the fact they need confirmation.