Kip Williams and Robin McGehee, Co-Directors of the National Equality March, have left Equality Across America citing differences about the direction the new group should take.

. . . Everyone involved agreed that the parting of ways resulted from concerns about financial security and the leadership of the new organization.

“We’re still not sure this is a viable organization,” Jones said. “It’s still not clear to me that EAA is going to happen yet. There needs to be a working group to take EAA forward.

In his resignation, Williams wrote: “I’m moving on from EAA for personal and professional reasons. First, I need more security in my life, because I worked on the march for less than minimum wage and without health insurance/ Second, I share with EAA the goal of full federal equality, but I have different ideas about the road to get there.”

And McGehee wrote: “Although I am equally driven in my desire for full federal equality, there are different directions that my life, both personally and professionally, are going and I have decided that I will no longer be able to serve with Equality Across America as this organization begins to take it’s next steps.”

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In a press conference call this morning she announced that will be stepping down in a few weeks and will not running for re-election. No one really knows why, and her brief statement didn’t reveal any reason other than that she can “effect positive change outside of government.”

She plans to hand over the state government to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who will be sworn in at the governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 25.

This, of course, frees her up for a 2012 presidential bid. And also sinks her political career. This could be the weirdest news of the week.

UPDATE: Video of her press conference.