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Leah Daughtry, DNC’s chief of staff, wasn’t enthusiastic about responding to anti-gay remarks from Marine Gen. Peter Pace. Her boss, Howard Dean, avoided commenting publicly on the controversy.
(Photo by Ed Andrieski/AP)
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By: KEVIN NAFF COMMENTS
 
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that might offend one of those religious voters that Dean and Daughtry are so desperate to please.
Daughtry’s behind-the-scenes role in this and other gay-related debacles is becoming more troubling. She is Dean’s chief of staff, yet helped insulate him from the Pace controversy so he didn’t have to issue a public statement. She’s the head of this summer’s Democratic National Convention, but has undermined efforts at establishing quotas for gay delegates, even though every other conceivable minority group benefits from such mandatory goals. She leads party outreach to “values voters,” but is on the record opposing same-sex marriage — something that many gay voters value.
If the DNC employed a gay staffer who sought to undermine the influence of blacks within the party, there’s no question that person would be fired faster than Donald Hitchcock, who was canned shortly after his partner dared to criticize the party. The double standard that allows Daughtry to get away with her anti-gay behavior is a slap in the face to gay DNC donors. Gay supporters of the Democratic Party deserve better from Daughtry, Dean and the rest of the senior staff there.
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