Thursday, April 22, 2010

Barney Frank's view of the GetEQUAL/ENDA drama


As some of you know, Barney don't play. And he wasn't too happy about yesterday's GetEQUAL attack.

MetroWeekly has the stuff:
''What a stupid thing to do.''

Frank called the action ''immature, tacky'' behavior on Wednesday afternoon and said that ''George Miller and others are working hard'' to see the bill passed in the House.

On Sunday, the openly gay Frank said the committee would be marking up and voting on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) ''this week or next.'' The activists, led by Get Equal co-founder Robin McGehee, weren't waiting. Signs and markers in hand, they walked right up the aisle of the hearing room on Wednesday to Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.), offering him a marker to mark up the bill right then.

When asked what she would say to Frank, McGehee replied simply, ''Prove us wrong, and make it happen.''

The action, which Frank said was ''no help whatsoever,'' fell on the same day that the National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign joined with more than 200 LGBT, faith, labor and civil rights leaders and organizations in sending a one-sentence statement to Congress: ''Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act NOW.''

Frank said, ''I understand people are frustrated and angry,'' but he ''genuinely'' didn't understand the purpose of the Get Equal protest.

''How does this help us get the bill passed?'' he asked. ''Who's mind are they going to change?'
Robin believes this will move all LGBT forward, but Barney thinks it's a bit ridic.

2 comments:

NG said...

Barney Frank is merely concerned with staying chairman of the Financial Services Committee.

kayman said...

He speaks THE TRUTH on it. They are too busy making themselves look foolish rather than getting their point across. Little do they know when you carry on the way GetEQUAL has you get ignored...

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