did you know there is an openly gay gop presidential candidate?

[xchrom]

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/02/29/will-the-nc-board-of-elections-place-presidential-candidate-fred-karger-on-the-may-8-ballot-he-should-be-there/



North Carolina’s Republican Party is polluted with proud bible beaters, anti-gays, flat-earthers, Teabaggers, womb controllers, anti-environmentalists…the list of demerits goes on and on. It has leadership that craps on the idea of transparency in government. We’ve seen in action that since it took control of the General Assembly in 2010, for the first time since Reconstruction. This party’s extremists are why we are facing a marriage discrimination amendment on the ballot on May 8.

Retired California businessman Fred Karger is a throwback to a more moderate party that embraced personal freedom and common sense principles. That’s not the party of the mind-blowing leading candidate Rick Santorum. Karger’s made it onto the ballot in other states, most recently in Michigan, but has yet to qualify here despite sending qualifying information packets to the State Board of Elections and NC GOP Chair requesting to be on the primary ballot (letter here).

February 28, 2012

The Honorable Robert Cordle
Secretary
North Carolina State Board of Elections
PO Box 27255
Raleigh, NC 27611-7255

Dear Mr. Cordle:

I write this letter to request that my name, Fred Karger, be placed on the ballot for North Carolina’s May 8, 2012 Republican presidential primary ballot.

As you know, under North Carolina law, a presidential candidate’s name shall be placed on the primary ballot if the candidate “is generally advocated and recognized in the news media throughout the United States or in North Carolina” N.C. Elec. Law § 163-213.4.

Generally Recognized in National and International Press

I have been profiled and covered in thousands of news stories including the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Detroit Free Press, the Kalamazoo Gazette, The Jerusalem Post, the Observer, The OC Weekly and Chicago Magazine. BBC’s HardTalk interviewed their first 2012 Republican candidate when they interviewed me. Fox News, MSNBC, CBS News, New Hampshire’s WMUR, The Manchester Union Leader, The Des Moines Register, Politico and The Huffington Post all regularly include me in their lists of 2012 candidates.

People all around the world have seen me interviewed as a presidential candidate by Rachel Maddow, David Frost, ABC, CBS News, Fox News, Russian Television, Swiss Television, Australian Broadcasting, Britain’s Sky News and Comedy Central.


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[CBHagman]

1. Yes.

There's hardly been a peep about it in the media, though.