{"id":9232,"date":"2009-06-28T03:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T03:09:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-30T01:40:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T01:40:54","slug":"ca10-woods-in-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/28\/ca10-woods-in-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-10: Woods in WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(A quick reminder for folks in the Bay Area, Tony Woods is having a fundraiser at 6:30 tonight at Pisco Lounge. <a href=http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/woodsandchoi>Deats\/tickets here<\/a>. &#8211; promoted by Brian Leubitz<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>With Ellen Taushcer officially out of Congress, Gov. Schwarzenegger can now choose the election date. &nbsp;But with several strong candidates, the campaign has already been on for a while now. <strong>UPDATE by Brian<\/strong>: See the flip for more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/anthonywoodsforcongress.com\">Anthony Woods<\/a> was interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/26\/AR2009062603526.html\">in the Washington Post<\/a> on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York for his perspective on Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, running for Congress as an openly gay man, and more. Here&#8217;s his take on the reality of DADT in today&#8217;s military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Q) When it was first implemented, the policy was allegedly supposed to preserve morale and unit cohesion. How does that fit in with your experience in Iraq?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A) The thing that soldiers care about is, is their leader competent and does he or she care about them. And if they had a choice between a straight superior who was not very good at their job or a gay superior who was very good at their job, I think they would choose the one who&#8217;s going to help ensure that they come home to their families.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/26\/AR2009062603526.html\">WaPo 6\/28\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, if you are in San Francisco, you should consider coming to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/woodsandchoi\">fundraiser with Tony and Lt. Dan Choi<\/a>, two outspoken young leaders pushing hard against Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell. &nbsp;Even if you aren&#8217;t in SF, you can still free to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/woodsandchoi\">drop a few dimes on the Woods Campaign here<\/a>. Note that the Calitics Editorial Board has taken no position on this campaign as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Ellen Taushcer officially out of Congress, Gov. Schwarzenegger can now choose the election date. &nbsp;But with several strong candidates, the campaign has already been on for a while now. <strong>UPDATE by Brian<\/strong>: See the flip for more.<\/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":[7073,1129],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7073","tag-1129"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2oU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","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=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}