Post by Logan on Mar 28, 2017 0:41:33 GMT -6
Over the weekend, a helpful tipster alerted Pith to a Facebook post from staunch conservative Kay White, a Donald Trump delegate last summer who served as Rick Santorum's state chair in 2012. Now that tea party favorite state Sen. Mark Green might be heading to Washington, it seems the far right is scrambling to find a new gubernatorial candidate for 2018. (And a source tells us Green as Secretary of the Army is a done deal, unless his vetting does not come up clean.)
According to the post, White has found her new dream candidate. And who should it be but everyone's favorite gun-totin' grandmother from Mt. Juliet, state Sen. Mae Beavers.
No one in the Capitol Hill Press Corps seems to recall Beavers ever being called the "Iron Lady," but she is definitely as hateful as Thatcher was to the gay community. Thatcher supported the passage of the controversial Section 28, which said local governments in the United Kingdom could not "intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." That law was passed in 1988 at the peak of AIDS hysteria; it was repealed in 2003. Fourteen years later, most of the Conservative Party has since admitted it was a mistake.
But here in Tennessee, in 2017, Beavers wants to take us back 30 years, back to a closet where you can pray the gay away, no matter the economic consequences. One year after the passage of HB 2, the anti-trans bathroom bill, in North Carolina, the state has lost at least half a billion dollars and the possibility of yet another Duke basketball championship, after what should have been basically a home game for the team yesterday was moved to South Carolina because of the legislation. (Admittedly, we are not crushed over that, but we imagine a few North Carolina legislators are.) Yet Beavers is still pushing the legislation here, as if forcing a trans woman to use the men's bathroom is going to make her any less trans, as if legislating bathroom usage will take the country back to another century.
Read more: www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/20855407/now-entering-the-governors-race-mae-beavers
According to the post, White has found her new dream candidate. And who should it be but everyone's favorite gun-totin' grandmother from Mt. Juliet, state Sen. Mae Beavers.
No one in the Capitol Hill Press Corps seems to recall Beavers ever being called the "Iron Lady," but she is definitely as hateful as Thatcher was to the gay community. Thatcher supported the passage of the controversial Section 28, which said local governments in the United Kingdom could not "intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." That law was passed in 1988 at the peak of AIDS hysteria; it was repealed in 2003. Fourteen years later, most of the Conservative Party has since admitted it was a mistake.
But here in Tennessee, in 2017, Beavers wants to take us back 30 years, back to a closet where you can pray the gay away, no matter the economic consequences. One year after the passage of HB 2, the anti-trans bathroom bill, in North Carolina, the state has lost at least half a billion dollars and the possibility of yet another Duke basketball championship, after what should have been basically a home game for the team yesterday was moved to South Carolina because of the legislation. (Admittedly, we are not crushed over that, but we imagine a few North Carolina legislators are.) Yet Beavers is still pushing the legislation here, as if forcing a trans woman to use the men's bathroom is going to make her any less trans, as if legislating bathroom usage will take the country back to another century.
Read more: www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/20855407/now-entering-the-governors-race-mae-beavers