TPM: Gay Republicans' L.A. Fundraiser: The Tea Bag Toss!

[Blue-Jay]

The Log Cabin Republicans of Los Angeles are holding a special event at this weekend's gay pride festival in L.A.: A tea bag toss!

Contestants can buy a tea bag and win a prize if they toss it into the open "mouths" of three politicians: gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin.

"We figured this year we ought to take it up a notch and do something that is engaging and somewhat amusing and shows that we can even laugh at ourselves," Scott Schmidt, president of of Log Cabin-Los Angeles, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

He said he included Palin in the game in order to give the game a more bipartisan feel, telling the Chronicle that she had raised the sales tax when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

According to the Chronicle, the Log Cabin's L.A. chapter is the biggest in the country. But it's still not officially recognized by the state GOP.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/gay-republicans-la-fundraiser-the-tea-bag-toss.php?ref=fpblg

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uh... OK.

[nemo137]

1. Ah, jeez.

Really?

[gratuitous]

5. Considering what usually passes for "humor" among Republicans

This isn't bad. I have to wonder, though, how the gay Republicans can staff a booth for an entire weekend, unless he drinks a LOT of coffee. But who's going to keep an eye on things when he goes to the can?

[EOTE]

2. Makes almost as much sense as a gay republican. NT

[Tailormyst]

3. .....

I don't get it..... In fact I don't even get the term "gay republican".

[guitar man]

4. they can buy a tea bag?

wouldn't that be against the law?

:D