Longtime LGBT rights activist and California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano didn’t feel too welcoming when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger “crashed” a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco:
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is lambasting what he calls “highly inappropriate” behavior by San Francisco Democrats Wednesday who greeted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with a hostile reception during a surprise drop-in at a San Francisco Democratic Party fund-raiser.
But outspoken State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, who shouted “You lie!” to Schwarzenneger during the event at the Fairmont Hotel — and didn’t deny reports he walked out with a quip of “kiss my gay ass” — said the GOP governor’s “cheap publicity stunt” earned a very appropriate show of political theater, San Francisco-style.
Afterward, Ammiano said, “This isn’t a chamber where someone suffers through. This is our house — and it’s like someone came in and took a big dump. He showed up; it was rude . . You don’t come uninvited and you don’t devalue what the Democratic Party stands for.”
Listen to the pucker request(s).
October 11th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Good for Ammiano. We need leaders with guts to stand up to the homophobes.