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The North Carolina Democratic Party recently voted to oppose the marriage discrimination amendment, and form the NC LGBT Democratic Caucus. That got me thinking and wondering about where other parties and movements stand, and where support for equality is coming from. Here is what I found. Feel free to add to it.

All that outcry via blogs, tweets, Facebook about Susan G. Komen's bad move against Planned Parenthood has paid off. This afternoon, Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO, apologized to the American public

for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

In the press release, she said:

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen.

No kidding!

At the January 28th NCDP State Executive Committee meeting, Wake County Chair Dan Blue III made a motion to strike the current section 8.01 (Resolutions) from the NCDP Plan of Organization. This section required ranking resolutions after the body had voted to pass them.

I enthusiastically seconded the motion. The motion was passed by a voice vote but the vote was not unanimous. I sat in the front row and gleefully tore-up my ranked-resolution ballot - which was noticed and commented on by NCDP Chair David Parker.

Various people have been trying to get us to rank resolutions for years but it finally passed at the March 2010 SEC meeting in Durham, NC.

Remember the old Grey Poupon TV commercials form the 70s and 80s? Where two stuffy guys in Rolls Royces share Grey Poupon mustard? If you look closely at this updated version you can spot Mitt Romney acting “in character.”

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I am mailing my Komen Race for the Cure t-shirt back to them. I figure if they get a bunch of them back it might make a statement. The address is: 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250. Dallas, TX 75244.

The fight against Non Partisan elections just heated up a little bit. As reported by the Kinston Free Press and others (http://www.kinston.com/news/federal-79724-kinston-voting.html) The Justice Department has softened its stance on the Non Partisan referendum.

Let's face it. McCrory is a professional politician in the sleaziest sense of the term. For years, Duke Energy funded his never ending campaign for governor. And now his sugar daddy is the well-connected law firm, Moore & Van Allen. Nice "work" if you can get it.

Recognize this man? This is Judge Allen (actually Richard [Dick] Allen) Baddour's dad, the recently resigned UNC of Chapel Hill athletic director Dick Baddour making the rounds at the Atlantic Coast Conference women's swimming and diving championships in 2007.

Did Baddour also wear such jewelry at league ethics meetings or before the NCAA infractions committee? The photo comes to us from the fine 850 The Buzz, which has a larger version, and they provide evidence that the image has not been altered.

I guess life is hard for a pimp.