Log Cabin (Republicans) president announces resignation

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington Blade

Patrick Sammon, president of the national gay partisan group Log Cabin Republicans, has announced plans to leave the organization.

Sammon said in a statement released Thursday that he would step down at the end of January. Sammon, a former television news reporter, became president of Log Cabin in December 2006.

“After five years at this organization and more than two years heading Log Cabin, I am ready to tackle new challenges,” he said. “I’ll be doing documentary filmmaking, which is what I did before joining Log Cabin’s staff.”

... Sammon and Log Cabin National Board Chairman Peter Kingma said in the statement that Log Cabin is well positioned to influence the GOP’s future direction.

“Log Cabin has a huge opportunity to influence the Republican Party’s renewal in the months and years ahead,” Kingma said. “The GOP’s brand is severely damaged. Log Cabin will be an important part of the effort to revive out party with a unifying philosophy that brings people together around inclusive values instead of wedge-issue politics.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Another chicken decides to stop supporting Colonel Sanders...

[annarbor]

5. Hands down......

the greatest analogy that describes Log Cabin Republicans.

They just don't get it.

Ann Arbor

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. Oh They Get It

They value personal wealth over personal freedom. Because as long as you have the wealth, you can create your own freedoms.

[apnu]

22. Or rather you can "buy" freedom with personal wealth. (nt)

[Gman]

2. The Log Cabins are probably the most delusional group I know of

I mean, they honestly think they can influence the GOP agenda? After what happened in October?

[zehnkatzen]

29. It reminds me of two women me and mine met about 20 years ago ...

... it was on the sidewalk in front of a local burger place here in Portland. They were lesbians, one was blind. We were admiring thier service dog (a beautiful German shepherd, for what it's worth).

Like I said, one was blind, both were each other's partner, and the sighted member of the duo was also disabled in some way, and they were telling us why they were Republicans and why they were proud of it.

I don't remember what they said, because to this day I'm still agog at a pair of people who are the Republican evil trifecta, willingly members of a group that would ship them off to an exile island if they could, and the voices echoing in my head going why, why, why...

Don't tell me they want to change the Republicans from the inside. That's like the remaining working organs in a BSE all banding together to change the body from the inside by turning the brain 'round.

Can't be done.

Ultimate waste of time.

[mitchum]

3. Happy trails, missy

[ingac70]

4. lol

[Ian David]

6. Documentary filmmaking...

"Nailin Paylin": Hustler's Palin Porn Details
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/nailin-paylin-hustlers-pa_n_131581.html

Very edgy!

[msongs]

7. they should all join the LDS church and make it a clean sweep membership-wise nt

[Ian David]

8. Patrick Sammon is resigning to spend more time self-loathing with his family. n/t

[Neshanic]

9. “I’ll be doing documentary filmmaking," First project is my epic stupidity and it's causes.

[chollybocker]

10. "This man does not represent me." - Crunchie, re: Homer, to Chief Wiggum.

[mikeytherat]

19. "Munchie," of Seth and Munchie fame.

And I know this because I actually watched that episode, "D'ohing in the Wind," this morning while working out!

Homer: "You can smash this drug lab, but first you'll have to smash open our heads like ripe melons!"
Munchie: "This man does not represent us!"

mikey_the_rat

[hangman86]

11. Gay, but don't like Democrat philosophy? Then registar as an Independent!

Anything but the GOP. Practically half their social agenda is discriminating against the homosexual community. This group makes about as much sense as Rockers against Drugs or Jews for Jesus. :wtf:

[Psephos]

12. Yet - the swing vote that took Prop 8 down in California came from Obama supporters

go figure :shrug:

This stuff doesn't follow party lines as neatly as we sometimes think.

[Hekate]

17. I thought it was Rachel who said that it would have won by a bigger margin but for the Obama turnout

I know I heard that on MSNBC Wednesday night, so it was either Rachel or Keith. Big Obama turnout: smaller margin of victory for Prop 8.

Hekate

[Psephos]

23. Could be...depends a lot on who's reading the tea leaves n/t

[UpInArms]

13. when I read this - all I could see was the edited version

"The GOP’s brand is severely brain damaged."

[specimenfred1984]

14. We need a really good Kool-Aid movie

IN A WORLD, where complete hypocrites battle their own innate desires to vote against their own interests, a lying propagandist attempts to put his history of lies behind him.

[Mari333]

15. Gay Republicans WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkY8NxLZy3g

[John Q. Citizen]

16. Why call themselves "The Log Cabin Repos instead of "The Gay Repos?"

Or something more direct. I doubt beating around the bush will return the Repos to a platform of civil libertarianism.

[Frank Cannon]

21. Why don't they just call themselves "The Male Republicans"?

God knows they have enough closet cases in that party.

Every homophobe I've ever known has been GOP. Methinks they protest too much.

[zehnkatzen]

25. It's a historical reference

Lincoln, the first Republican president (and last one worth anything) ... you know, log cabin, salt-of-the-earth, good for all, decent person and all that.

[mac56]

27. Plus it's been rumored/conjectured that Lincoln may have had a gay lover

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2502/was-abraham-lincoln-gay

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[hatrack]

30. I always thought "Log Closet Republicans" a better name . ..

Just MHO.

[marshall]

20. Maybe he went to one of those retreats and was "cured"

Just like the governor of Florida.

[zehnkatzen]

24. I think I know what their plan is ...

They keep calling themselves Republicans while the party dies around them.

When the mainline Republican party dies off ... they'll be it.

They're lulling the mainline R's into complacency as we speak.

[Strathos]

26. I'm gay and think the Log Cabin Republicans are IDIOTS

I've always equated them to a black man supporting the KKK.

[mitchum]

28. A documentary about what? Ernst Rohm and the SA?