Candidate Richard Selwach vows to balance city budget

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 Candidate Richard Selwach vows to balance city budget

Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:00 am | Updated: 12:40 am, Thu Feb 11, 2010.

CJ PRUNER, Alligator Writer

http://www.alligator.org/news/features/article_75e80594-16ca-11df-9050-001cc4c002e0.html

Editor's Note: This is the fourth segment of the Face in the Race series.

Selwach is no stranger to bold statements, especially when it comes to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, which modifies Chapter 8 of the city's Code of Ordinances to include protection from gender discrimination.

The ordinance allows citizens to use bathrooms that suit their gender identity, defined as "an inner sense of being a specific gender" as opposed to biological sex.

Selwach said that his opposition to the bill stems from what he described as sloppily written language, not an underlying prejudice toward transgender people.