Chris Dodd Out Standing in a Field During LGBT Presidential Forum
Senator Chris Dodd has posted answers on his Website to the questions posed to Democratic presidential candidates during last week’s HRC/Logo Visible Vote 08 presidential forum. Dodd chose to wait for a copy of the questions, wait to see reaction to the other candidates’ appearances, then wait for his staffers to carefully craft well-spun answers, rather than sit down with the LGBT community. Perhaps the senator doesn’t know what anyone who has ever been tested understands: it’s not fair to know the questions in advance.
The senator did not answer the one question that queer voters were asking: Why didn’t you show up?
Apparently the field of candidates was too much for Sen. Dodd. He chose a different field for his campaign last Thursday. Sen. Dodd had cited scheduling conflicts as his reason not to appear. A check of his schedule as posted on his Website shows that he was at the Greengate House Party in Nelson, New Hampshire at the time of the forum. His campaign posted a photo of the Senator made in Nelson on Flickr.
The fact that Sen. Dodd failed to show tells gay and lesbian voters that when asked to stand up for equal rights, this candidate would rather stand out in a field, isolating himself from issues he finds either politically inconvenient or personally of no concern to him.
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