Yeah, what about him? Read on."He's actually been wonderful. He's kept every promise he's ever made to the community." Anyone remember the last time you heard an LGBT political activist say that about a candidate for the White House? It certainly can't be said about Bill Clinton, whose 1992 campaign pledge to let gays serve openly in the military resulted in the disastrous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Ditto for John Kerry, whose reputation for being a longstanding champion of gay civil rights went bust when he came out for anti-gay marriage amendments in Massachusetts and Missouri in the heat of the 2004 campaign. But that's how Alexis Blizman, the executive director of Equality New Mexico, sums up Democrat Bill Richardson's record on LGBT issues as governor of her home state.
