Politics.
At the Sacramento Mayoral
Forum May 7, 2008 the following two GLBT related
questions were asked:
Moderator: Do
you support gay marriage?
Adam Daniel: Yes.
Shawn Eldredge:
Yes.
Heather Fargo: Yes.
Kevin Johnson: I
believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Richard Jones:
I support it.
Leonard Padilla:
Yes.
Muriel Strand: Yes.
We need a new family institution so people can join together in
families.
Later,
Moderator: I think
we have got about a minute and a half left, this is valuable news
time I hate to waste it so I just want to get in one more quick
question from the viewer, how will each candidate work to
eradicate anti-gay hate crimes in the community and we picked
this one because there have been some anti-gay hate crimes lately,
we only have a quick few seconds, Mayor Fargo, Kevin if you'd like
to respond to that real quick, very quickly.
Heather Fargo: I'd
be happy to jump in. We are very concerned about this at the
city and I will continue to maintain a strong working relationship
with the organizations that lead our gay and lesbian groups here in
town as well as working with the Lambda Center and we do have
special officers in our police department that help to work with
this as well, we take it very seriously.
Moderator: Well now
they are counting me down ... this wraps up our coverage ...
Note only Fargo answered this
last question, possibly due to time constraints.
These are my own transcripts.
The entire video is available on line.
Links:
sacbee.com coverage:
includes a picture captioned "An unidentified Kevin Johnson supporter
Wednesday pours water on Charles Peer..."
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/922058.html
News10.net coverage:
includes video of the event
http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=41696
Johnson's comment on same-sex marriage riles
Sacramento's gay and lesbian community in the
Sacramento Bee 5/9/08 and at sacbee.com The story is
showing up nationally. |
