Catania leaves DC GOP over Convention Seat

[Southpaw Bookworm]

D.C. Council member David A. Catania said yesterday he has left the local Republican Party organization after its chairman stripped him of his delegate seat at the national convention because he opposes President Bush's reelection.

Catania, a lifelong member of the GOP and openly gay political activist, raised more than $50,000 for the Bush campaign in the past year but became a vocal critic after Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Carol Schwartz, the other Republican on the 13-member council, resigned as a delegate to the convention in protest of Catania's banishment.

Catania, in an interview, said he would have fulfilled his obligation and voted for Bush at the Republican National Convention in New York, "but I have no intention of supporting him in the general election."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61775-2004May27.html

[northzax]

1. what? the republican party doesn't really like gay people?

I'm shocked, shocked I tells you.

and David, David, David, did you really think that they would do anything but take your money and them spit in your face? couldn't everyone see this ruling on the amendment coming from a country mile?

[Skinner]

2. Whoa!

Thanks for posting this. This is very interesting news. Looks like he is still registered Republican, but may change...

The council member, who won his at-large seat in a special election in 1997, said he has not decided whether to change his party registration. "I would never change my principles, but I don't have to hang out in this crowd. There is such a thing called an independent," he said.