Washington Blade editor: Lawyers for DNC chief of staff tried to intimidate me

[PageOneQ]

Source: PageOneQ

A scathing editorial to be printed in this Friday's Washington Blade will claim that attorneys representing Leah Daughtry, chief of staff of the Democratic National Committee, attempted to intimidate the paper's editor and publisher over its reporting on an ongoing discrimination lawsuit, PageOneQ has learned.

As earlier reported, a suit was filed against the DNC by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock, alleging harassment and retaliation by top DNC staff, including Daughtry and Chairman Howard Dean. Hitchcock claims that Daughtry and Dean held him responsible for criticism of the DNC's LGBT outreach efforts by his partner, Democratic consultant Paul Yandura. Included in Yandura's criticisms were public statements urging gays to reconsider giving money to the DNC.

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[Dhalgren]

1. K&R. Looks like the whole damned Party is gearing-up to throw

the LGBT base under the old bus. What? Was the bus' back seats becoming too full of older women, so the gays had to be jettisoned?

(Sorry, couldn't resist...)