Kennedy favors ’08 Senate vote on ENDA

[Shana A]

http://www.washblade.com/2008/1-4/news/national/11819.cfm

"Kennedy favors '08 Senate vote on ENDA     Gay
Leaked HRC memo suggests putting measure on hold until next year

LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, January 04, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is expected to push for a Senate vote in 2008 on the same gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that the House of Representatives passed in 2007, a Kennedy spokesperson said this week."

[Sheila]

The ENDA saga is over and I just think that we ought to just remember the past but not wallow in it. If it passes thats good, we can't change it now. We just have to work harder the next time to try and get something all inclusive. We do need a change in HRC or back another group and put our money into a group that will represent us.
Sheila

[Keira]

I think we need for someone we can trust, rather than harder.
I think many worked plenty hard on this one and got shafted.

Though, HRC's past actions should have made people wary of their
motives and if they really were with us, and not just using us.

[Sheila]

Keira, I agree. We need to have someone we can trust. Right now, I don't know anyone up there that I can trust. I do like Donna Rose, but don't know if she could handle something like that. There are people on the two groups that I have had dealings, indirectly, with that I just don't trust. There some who hold positions that think like I do and so it is not whether I trust them it is what they will say and politics is where its at.
Sheila

[Hazumu]

Well, a federal ENDA seems to now be out of reach for a long while.

But I think the fight is not over.  In fact, we should increase out efforts to:

--Educate as many as possible on the issues of transgender(transsexual);

--Work at the state and local level to get hate-crimes and ENDA-like legislation passed and in force;

--Work to 'take care of our own' at state/local levels;

--Fend off attempts by HRC and others to take credit for all the 'heavy lifting' (above) that we may have accomplished.

This list is by no means complete and all-inclusive.  If you see other things that must be done, or refinements/details to the above brainstorming you wish to add, please do so.

Karen

[Natasha]

Kennedy favors '08 Senate vote on ENDA   

http://www.washblade.com/2008/1-4/news/national/11819.cfm
by LOU CHIBBARO JR
01/04/2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is expected to push for a Senate vote in 2008 on the same gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that the House of Representatives passed in 2007, a Kennedy spokesperson said this week.

[Shana A]

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