That didn’t take long. Anaheim Union High School District Jordan Brandman’s allies are saying that he was misquoted in the article Sean Mill posted earlier this week, where we quoted Brandman saying “there is no place for gay rights in our textbooks and schools,” at a candidates forum.
Mill and I noticed, while conducting research, that Brandman’s website includes the endorsement of a number of notorious Republicans, who supported and worked on Prop. 8 – the hateful measure that ended gay marriage in California. Many of them were also members of the Friends of John Urell, the organization formed to defend a Catholic Monsignor who covered up for molester priests.
The awful Prop. 8 Republicans endorsing Brandman include:
- Red County editor Matt Cunningham, who outed the names of victims of Catholic molestation, on the Friends of Urell website he was running
- Cunningham’s wife Laura, who was literally paid to hate, as the Hispanic Outreach Coordinator for Prop. 8
- Dr. Alexandria Coronado, who the voters ousted from the O.C. Board of Education this June, in part because of her homophobia and gay-bashing
- Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, who endorsed Prop. 8. (click here to see all the Prop. 8 endorsers). Pringle is also the former boss of Jeff Flint, the Prop. 8 consultant
Brandman is also endorsed by Stanton Councilman Dave Shawver, who lost to John Moorlach in a supervisorial race a few years back. Shawver is a big-time Mexican-basher!
Brandman can disavow what he said, but we have him recorded in an audio clip. He cannot refute that. More importantly, why is a Democrat like Brandman pursuing endorsements from GOP extremists who supported Prop. 8?
Art,
They can’t deny the audio clip and the eyewitness accounts of those that were there. This is more spin being put forth by the liars and the spinsters.
If Jordan would like to put out an official release staing that this is all false and that he does support the inclusion of gay rights history into textbooks or classroom teachings we will be more than happy to post it here on the Juice.
Stop yer yapping and whining you two losers! Good for Jordan for not being a pander bear!
The majority of Californians, of Orange Countians, and of people of color voted for Proposition 8. How dare you suggest that they are bigoted or extremist. And how dare you fault Jordan Brandman for taking a position which most Anaheimites support.
Hcat,
Majority support means nothing if the majority is backing something that is ethically wrong. Mob rule means nothing.
Brandman appears to be a hypocrite. Perhaps he should become a Republican.
To learn more about Jordan Brandman and to join the folks opposing his run for Anaheim City Council in 2012 visit:
http://www.nojordanbrandman.com