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...Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) is angry, and we have every right to be bitter. Bush has trampled on the rights of BGLT people for far too long, and this time he has gone too far. He may be able to silence Mary Cheney, but he certainly cannot quiet queer America...
...shuttle glinting below me, I found myself alone in the company of soda, snack and coffee machines and expanses of linoleum. “This is creepy as hell,” I said aloud, just to hear a voice. I was sorry when nobody told me to be quiet. When I descended again, letting the heels of my shoes clatter in the stairwell to dispel the quiet, I felt both relief and sorrow, as one does when retreating from a sheer but dazzling precipice...
What has given the Bush campaign the most confidence during these dark days is its ground organization. While Democrats were attacking, the Bush team says it was quietly laying track. Much of the $41 million the campaign has spent so far out of the $140 million raised has been on this quiet infrastructure. Indeed, campaign manager Ken Mehlman, the Harvard-educated son of a CPA, has worked so diligently to build a field organization that some call him the "accountant" for his excessive attention to detail...
...with Jordan, so she brought in Michael Meehan, Kerry's 1996 campaign spokesman, and hired Stephanie Cutter, Kennedy's former spokeswoman. Michael Whouley, one of the most gifted organizers in the party (and a product of St. Peter's parish), also came aboard and agreed to make a quiet reconnaissance trip to Iowa a few days before Thanksgiving. Between Jordan's hires and Cahill's, there were at least two of everything--pollsters, consultants, representatives. But Cahill was able to bring order to it all, she says, "because everybody who was around the table was familiar...
...check for both Cahill and Kerry came in early December, when she made a quiet Sunday-afternoon visit to the Senator and his wife at their Louisburg Square town house in Boston and laid out the grim financial reality of their situation. "It was very clinical," she recalls. "Here are the facts. Here's what we need." What they needed was a lot more money, and they weren't going to get it unless Kerry took out a mortgage on the very house in which they were meeting. The problem wasn't that he couldn't swing the $6.4 million...