October 22, 2008

Trevor Potter: McCain’s Great Lawyer, Gays’ Great Traitor

Sheesh! This is why LGBTs never gain any traction in the Democratic party; they’re always willing to defend the indefensible:

Gay attorney plays key role in McCain campaign

Trevor Potter, a former chair of the U.S. Federal Election Commission who is gay, is serving as the top lawyer for the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

As the campaign’s general counsel, Potter has been identified by newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post as one of the nation’s most highly regarded experts on U.S. election laws. Potter has been credited with helping draft the McCain-Feingold Act, a bipartisan federal measure that reformed federal campaign finance laws.

But few mainline news outlets have reported on Potter’s other role as a high-level, openly gay adviser to McCain. …

Potter declined a request for an interview for this story, saying he would prefer not to talk about himself in his role as attorney for the McCain campaign.

I’ll just bet he’d prefer not to talk about it; i.e., account for it.

HRC spokesperson Brad Luna said Potter served on the HRC board from 2002 to 2006 and was a regular financial contributor to HRC.

Which is one of the biggest issues we have with the HRC: morphing from grassroots liberal activism into a big-moneyed cocktail-party circuit hijacked by Republicans at the very top. But that’s another gripe for another day.

“Of all the Republicans you want to deal with, he is a straight shooter,” said Hilary Rosen, another Democratic Party activist and former HRC board member.

And I’d want to deal with Republicans… why, again?

“He is a decent, wise friend of our community,” she said. “Trevor knows where McCain stands on gay issues. He isn’t going to change him. But that doesn’t make Trevor any less decent of a person.”

Well, bully for you, Hilary, but in our book, he could solve global warming, end world hunger, and bring peace to the Middle East tomorrow morning, and he’d still be a chicken working for Colonel Sanders.

More at the link — which is a testament to Potter’s unimpeachable prowess as a lawyer.

But none of that makes up for him sleeping with the enemy.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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