Political Notebook: Pelosi gives no timetable on ENDA at SF center visit
NEWS
Published 05/27/2010
by Matthew S. Bajko
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4816 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4816)
Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) told a Castro crowd that the ban against gays and lesbians serving openly in the military would be "a memory by Christmas." She did not give a similar timeline for when a ban against LGBT discrimination in the workplace would become federal law.
Pelosi turned up at the LGBT Community Center, despite a power failure at the building, Friday, May 21 on the eve of the first Harvey Milk state holiday in California to headline her first fundraiser for Equality California, the statewide LGBT lobbying group that worked with openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) to see the day of special significance for Milk become law. When Milk captured a supervisor seat in 1977 he became not only San Francisco's but also the state's first out politician.