Obama interest groups: Gays, lesbians, Bisexuals, and Tony Dean

The Rocky Mountain News has a report titled "Interest groups get fired up for Obama". Excerpt:

• Rural America: Crops, environment

The first-ever meeting of the Democratic National Convention's Rural Council focused on McCain's no votes on farm bills authorizing subsidies and loans to U.S. farmers.

Audience members got copies of McCain's voting record to pass out at "the booths you're manning at county fairs."

Tony Dean, host of the TV series Tony Dean Outdoors, said Obama is the better choice for the environment.

"As a sportsman, I consider this election the most important in my lifetime," he said. "Can't you see the very clear connection between good fishing and clean water? Clearly, they can't."

• Gays: Local, state activism

This week's focus may be national - but their fight is local, members of the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender Americans caucus were told.

Colorado philanthropist Tim Gill, whose political bankrolling aided the Democratic takeover of the state legislature in 2004, said Democrats need to identify a few legislative or city council seats in each state held by anti-gay Republicans and put their effort into knocking them off.

"The Republican Party is controlled by a bunch of bigots, and the only way we can take control from those bigots is to take their power away from them," Gill said.

Comments

[Tony Dean]

Steve: Are you trying to link me with gays, lesbians and bisexuals?

C'mon Man, you"re bigger than that. I thought we were going to stick to issues.

[Steve Sibson]

Tony,

I am not trying to link you to the homosexual movement. I thought the above post puts an interesting twist on Obama's rural folks clinging onto their guns and religion statement.