On August 3, the challenger was endorsed by both the Empire State Pride Agenda, the state’s LGBT rights lobby, and the Human Rights Campaign, the Washington-based gay rights group.
The three LGBT political clubs that make endorsements in Queens races — the Lesbian & Gay Democratic Club of Queens, the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City, and the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club — have also endorsed Nunes, as has the newly formed political action committee of the grassroots group Marriage Equality New York.
Also endosring Nunes are three openly gay/lesbian members of the city council, Rosie Mendez of the Lower East Side, Daniel Dromm from Jackson Heights, and Jimmy Van Bramer from Sunnyside.
Finally, just this weekend it was revealed that Chrstine Quinn, the Speaker of the City Council, has thrown her support to Nunes in his primary challenge of Huntley.
As stated in a previous 2010 Election Update posting, none of the above endorsements are surprising as they represent the city's gay community's understandable disappointment with State Senator Huntley's "no" vote on the "same sex marriage act" in Albany back in 2008.
Although I am sure that Mr. Nunes, a relative newcomer to the world of state politics, is relishing these endorsements, I am of the personal opinion that he is in danger of having his primary challenge devolve into a "one trick pony" campaign if he allows it to remain so overtly "gaycentric" without publicly dealing with the other real issues that our dysfunctional state legislature in Albany is plagued with.
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