Metro Weekly magazine: 2019-02-21 edition (PDF)
By Metro Weekly Contributor
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February 21, 2019
GLAAD has dropped the second installment in its ongoing national ad campaign seeking to warn voters about Project 2025 and how it might be implemented under a Republican president.
Project 2025 is a presidential transition plan and guidebook for governing, crafted by right-wing interest groups, including The Heritage Foundation, that outlines policies a future Republican president should seek to undertake in their first six months in office.
The 920-page blueprint was developed by at least 140 former Trump administration officials and more than 100 conservative-leaning partner organizations.
Major LGBTQ groups are ecstatic over Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. The pair now head into the general election as the Democratic Party's official presidential and vice-presidential nominees.
" expected a strategic and bold choice as a strong addition to the ticket as a vice presidential candidate. In Governor Walz, we have gotten both," Sayre E. Reece, the vice president of the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. "We applaud Vice President Harris' decision and fully support the Harris/Walz ticket -- in fact, you could call this a 'Golden Ticket.'"
Sarah Kate Ellis is under scrutiny after an article in The New York Times accused the GLAAD president and CEO of engaging in a pattern of lavish spending, including having the nonprofit pay for the renovation of her home office.
According to the Times, which analyzed months of the LGBTQ media advocacy organization's expense reports from January 2022 to June 2023, Ellis allegedly racked up charges for first-class flights, expensive black car services, stays at luxury hotels, a ski day that was part of a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a Provincetown summer rental, and nearly $18,000 in renovations to her home office, which was outfitted with a chandelier and other ornate accouterments.
