The Republican Party just lost a voter. Or, at least, a member. In a post to his blog,
GOProud co-founder Jimmy
LaSalvia announces that while the "Proud" part still applies, he is no longer GOP.
Jimmy LaSalvia: Today, I joined the ranks of unaffiliated voters. I am every bit as conservative as I’ve always been, but I just can’t bring myself to carry the Republican label any longer. You see, I just don’t agree with the big-government ‘conservatives’ who run the party now.
The other reason I am leaving is the tolerance of bigotry in the GOP. The current leadership lacks the courage to stand up to it – I’m not sure they ever will.
I have worked hard to help to create an atmosphere on the right where conservatives can openly support gay Americans and even support same-sex marriage. In that effort, we have won, but there is more work to do to root out the anti-gay and other forms of bigotry in the party.
So I changed my voter registration today – “No Party.”
For those who need to catch up here, GOProud is an organization of LGBT Republicans who seem to exist solely to demonstrate that there
are LGBT Republicans. It's an offshoot of the Log Cabin Republicans, a similar group that
LaSalvia and fellow
GOProud co-founder Christopher R. Barron left because it was "too centrist"...[
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