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july 3, 1917 - march 8, 2009
forever strong
july 3, 1917 - march 8, 2009
forever strong
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The Goddess's Musings
Do you see my problem if I never explain it?
16 February 2009 @ 04:31 pm
16 February 2009 @ 02:29 pm
http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/sto
the short of it (though it's a short article): state is out of money so isn't doing any tax refunds and probably will be paying employees late. the democratic governor wants to transfer money from another account, but the state republicans (who control both legislative houses) are refusing to approve it. unless she signs off on their budget.
so, um, the gop wants us all to have tax cuts and then uses our refunds as blackmail. NICE!
eta: http://kansasjackass.blogspot.com/2
the short of it (though it's a short article): state is out of money so isn't doing any tax refunds and probably will be paying employees late. the democratic governor wants to transfer money from another account, but the state republicans (who control both legislative houses) are refusing to approve it. unless she signs off on their budget.
so, um, the gop wants us all to have tax cuts and then uses our refunds as blackmail. NICE!
eta: http://kansasjackass.blogspot.com/2
25 November 2008 @ 06:01 pm
somehow, i managed to remove all of my friends yesterday. if i haven't added you back and think you should be, just let me know!
08 November 2008 @ 11:14 pm
14 October 2008 @ 08:09 pm
and by that i mean just one design ...
( 900x900 images )
share the voting love! FTW!
(steal, use, and for credit, use "voting for the win!")
( 900x900 images )
share the voting love! FTW!
(steal, use, and for credit, use "voting for the win!")
14 October 2008 @ 09:02 am
excited09 August 2008 @ 03:10 pm
09 August 2008 @ 01:59 pm
To: Kansas Equality Coalition members
From: Carolyn Marie Fugit
Subject: Letter of Resignation
Over the past several months, the Kansas Equality Coalition has come to the brink of imploding but has managed to stay the course. We have had public successes and many internal failures. Over the past few weeks, this internal fighting has spiraled to an unmanageable point. And in the past two weeks, it has taken all I have to continue with this organization.
In the city of Wichita, an openly lesbian candidate we endorsed lost her bid for state representative. Her campaign was poorly managed by the Victory Fund, and her opponent used this to discredit her. There is no way to know for certain if her opponent really attempted to use her constituents’ homophobia against our endorsed candidate, but the event has left many in KEC and KEPAC with a bad taste in their mouth. The Victory Fund issued statements condemning the Kansas Democratic Party, and this story made the rounds among LGBT political bloggers all over the country. Many people said many horrendous things, and in the name of moving forward with our political agenda, an agreement was reached between party officials, candidates, and KEC.
The Executive Committee of the State Board agreed to a joint statement that publically condemns the Victory Fund and the actions of out-of-state money being used to support a Kansas election. I am appalled at the language used and the spirit of so dramatically denouncing a national LGBT rights organization that supports LGBT politicians. I am appalled that we would in one breath condemn the use of out-of-state funds to support elections in Kansas while working to accept very large sums of money from out-of-state organizations and individual donors to support our political and social goals to bring fairness and safety to all Kansans.
The internal bickering and fighting that has long been a part of LGBT movements in this state has sapped all of my energy from me. My goals for the chapter, for the Kansas Equality Foundation, and for the Fair & Safe Schools Campaign have been set aside as I attempt to manage and recover from the open hostility between our leaders and even between our members. I am ashamed that I ever participated in the back-room politics that have been conducted from the very highest levels of our organization, and I do not like the person I have become. I believe very much that we do not need to play dirty in order to win the rights we so richly deserve simply by being Kansans, Americans, and humans.
I feel betrayed. In the fall of 2005 when I voted with everyone else to officially form the Kansas Equality Coalition, I felt that it was a new beginning of cooperation. I felt that it was our chance to stand tall and proud and to struggle together for fairness. I thought we would be different. As it turns out, our internal struggle to recognize fairness among all LGBT peoples betrayed a large segment of our community when our legislative plan for 2007-2008 specifically did not include gender identity as a class protected against discrimination but instead hid protections inside the definition of sexual orientation. Our own inability to fight for non-discrimination completely has betrayed us entirely. We have also played a nasty political game not only in the halls of the capitol but with each other. The games played internally to push out leaders betray the very notion of our being a grassroots organization. I am not pointing at any one person or any one act but instead a series of acts that even I have participated in. It has not ever been for the good of the organization or the good of our community, and it betrays the words we say we stand for.
In my last act as chair of the Kansas Equality Coalition of Wichita and Sedgwick County, I name Jeff Wicks as one of our two representatives to the state Board of Directors.
I hereby resign, effective immediately, as chair of the Wichita chapter, founding chair of the Kansas Equality Foundation, as our chapter representative to KEF, as director of the Fair & Safe Schools campaign, and my position on all committees. This is not an organization I can comfortably say I support as it betrays beliefs I have held most of my life.
Carolyn Marie Fugit
From: Carolyn Marie Fugit
Subject: Letter of Resignation
Over the past several months, the Kansas Equality Coalition has come to the brink of imploding but has managed to stay the course. We have had public successes and many internal failures. Over the past few weeks, this internal fighting has spiraled to an unmanageable point. And in the past two weeks, it has taken all I have to continue with this organization.
In the city of Wichita, an openly lesbian candidate we endorsed lost her bid for state representative. Her campaign was poorly managed by the Victory Fund, and her opponent used this to discredit her. There is no way to know for certain if her opponent really attempted to use her constituents’ homophobia against our endorsed candidate, but the event has left many in KEC and KEPAC with a bad taste in their mouth. The Victory Fund issued statements condemning the Kansas Democratic Party, and this story made the rounds among LGBT political bloggers all over the country. Many people said many horrendous things, and in the name of moving forward with our political agenda, an agreement was reached between party officials, candidates, and KEC.
The Executive Committee of the State Board agreed to a joint statement that publically condemns the Victory Fund and the actions of out-of-state money being used to support a Kansas election. I am appalled at the language used and the spirit of so dramatically denouncing a national LGBT rights organization that supports LGBT politicians. I am appalled that we would in one breath condemn the use of out-of-state funds to support elections in Kansas while working to accept very large sums of money from out-of-state organizations and individual donors to support our political and social goals to bring fairness and safety to all Kansans.
The internal bickering and fighting that has long been a part of LGBT movements in this state has sapped all of my energy from me. My goals for the chapter, for the Kansas Equality Foundation, and for the Fair & Safe Schools Campaign have been set aside as I attempt to manage and recover from the open hostility between our leaders and even between our members. I am ashamed that I ever participated in the back-room politics that have been conducted from the very highest levels of our organization, and I do not like the person I have become. I believe very much that we do not need to play dirty in order to win the rights we so richly deserve simply by being Kansans, Americans, and humans.
I feel betrayed. In the fall of 2005 when I voted with everyone else to officially form the Kansas Equality Coalition, I felt that it was a new beginning of cooperation. I felt that it was our chance to stand tall and proud and to struggle together for fairness. I thought we would be different. As it turns out, our internal struggle to recognize fairness among all LGBT peoples betrayed a large segment of our community when our legislative plan for 2007-2008 specifically did not include gender identity as a class protected against discrimination but instead hid protections inside the definition of sexual orientation. Our own inability to fight for non-discrimination completely has betrayed us entirely. We have also played a nasty political game not only in the halls of the capitol but with each other. The games played internally to push out leaders betray the very notion of our being a grassroots organization. I am not pointing at any one person or any one act but instead a series of acts that even I have participated in. It has not ever been for the good of the organization or the good of our community, and it betrays the words we say we stand for.
In my last act as chair of the Kansas Equality Coalition of Wichita and Sedgwick County, I name Jeff Wicks as one of our two representatives to the state Board of Directors.
I hereby resign, effective immediately, as chair of the Wichita chapter, founding chair of the Kansas Equality Foundation, as our chapter representative to KEF, as director of the Fair & Safe Schools campaign, and my position on all committees. This is not an organization I can comfortably say I support as it betrays beliefs I have held most of my life.
Carolyn Marie Fugit
31 July 2008 @ 10:37 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pris
i have caterpillars eating my dill. have found thirteen so far. these are what they'll turn into! yay! :)
i have caterpillars eating my dill. have found thirteen so far. these are what they'll turn into! yay! :)