{"id":11229,"date":"2010-03-06T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:33:27","slug":"more-on-ashburns-history-at-the-sacramento-gay-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/06\/more-on-ashburns-history-at-the-sacramento-gay-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Ashburn&#8217;s History at the Sacramento Gay Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, an Assembly candidate who was ultimately defeated by Mariko Yamada, has come out swinging against Roy Ashburn. &nbsp;The insteresting part of this, Cabaldon&#8217;s Facebook status update from six months ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It wouldn&#8217;t bother me so bad to see Roy Ashburn at Badlands with a boy if he didn&#8217;t have such a bad voting record on gay rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cabaldon appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/video\/?id=69253@kovr.dayport.com\">in an interview on Sacramento&#8217;s CBS13 news program<\/a>, and is now apparently big news around the gay blogosphere. Looks like Roy Ashburn is getting the full Larry Craig treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here is that Cabaldon, and basically gay male in Sacramento, knew about this guy months ago. Ashburn always was a creep, but now, there are people <a href=\"http:\/\/boyculture.typepad.com\/boy_culture\/2010\/03\/taken-for-a-ride.html\">tracking down his &#8220;passenger.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Boy Culture has new information that suggests Ashburn&#8217;s mystery passenger is an openly gay 29-year-old San Jose man (he looks several years younger) who was visiting Sacramento for work and who did not know Ashburn is a senator. He is a Latino, which fits nicely with the supposition that Ashburn was picked up outside Faces-Tuesday was Latin Night. (<a href=\"http:\/\/boyculture.typepad.com\/boy_culture\/2010\/03\/taken-for-a-ride.html\">BoyCulture<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For future reference, if anybody sees a Republican &#8220;family values&#8221; Senator at a gay bar in Sacramento, feel free to post a diary here at Calitics. I&#8217;m a little hesitant to write up anonymous emails, but if somebody else wants to write about their first hand experience, Calitics is a community blog that accepts content of all stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, an Assembly candidate who was ultimately defeated by Mariko Yamada, has come out swinging against Roy Ashburn. &nbsp;The insteresting part of this, Cabaldon&#8217;s Facebook status update from six months ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It wouldn&#8217;t bother me so bad to see Roy Ashburn at Badlands with a boy if he didn&#8217;t have such a bad voting record on gay rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cabaldon appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/video\/?id=69253@kovr.dayport.com\">in an interview on Sacramento&#8217;s CBS13 news program<\/a>, and is now apparently big news around the gay blogosphere. Looks like Roy Ashburn is getting the full Larry Craig treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here is that Cabaldon, and basically gay male in Sacramento, knew about this guy months ago. Ashburn always was a creep, but now, there are people <a href=\"http:\/\/boyculture.typepad.com\/boy_culture\/2010\/03\/taken-for-a-ride.html\">tracking down his &#8220;passenger.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Boy Culture has new information that suggests Ashburn&#8217;s mystery passenger is an openly gay 29-year-old San Jose man (he looks several years younger) who was visiting Sacramento for work and who did not know Ashburn is a senator. He is a Latino, which fits nicely with the supposition that Ashburn was picked up outside Faces-Tuesday was Latin Night. (<a href=\"http:\/\/boyculture.typepad.com\/boy_culture\/2010\/03\/taken-for-a-ride.html\">BoyCulture<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For future reference, if anybody sees a Republican &#8220;family values&#8221; Senator at a gay bar in Sacramento, feel free to post a diary here at Calitics. I&#8217;m a little hesitant to write up anonymous emails, but if somebody else wants to write about their first hand experience, Calitics is a community blog that accepts content of all stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1459,2676],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1459","tag-2676"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2V7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}