Record number of LGBT candidates on primary ballot
By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on March 19, 2014
Gay
D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) will be one of 17 openly LGBT
candidates
to appear on the ballot in the city’s April 1 primary election, representing
an
all-time high for the number of out candidates running in a single D.C.
election.
...
In
other races, seven out LGBT candidates, including Beninda, are running for
Democratic State Committee seats on an insurgent slate called The Rent is
Too Darn High.
In
a statement released earlier this month, leaders of the 30-candidate slate made
it clear that the candidates are dissatisfied with the current State Committee
leadership team headed by D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At-Large), who
serves as chair of the State Committee.
“The
Committee’s recent history is riddled with mismanagement of elections, lack of
transparency, and now wrestles with the perception of being complicit
with scandal and corruption,” the statement says.
The
LGBT candidates on the slate and the seats they are running for are Gregory
Cendana
(At-Large
seat); Edgardo Ed Guerrero (At-Large seat); Beninda (At-Large seat); Nikisha Carpenter
(At-Large seat); Jessica ‘Jess’ Pierce (Ward 4 seat); Tamara Angela Ferrell
(Ward 4
seat); and Andy Litsky (Ward 6 seat).
...
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