Gay NC Candidate Loses Senate Bid

The NC primary has produced a Democratic opponent to sitting Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole, but some gay and lesbian leaders are questioning whether a losing candidate deserved more support from GLBT equality organizations.

Neither The Human Rights Campaign nor the Victory Fund supported the campaign of openly gay candidate Jim Neal, and the Democratic Party itself, far from supporting Neal, reportedly recruited winning candidate Kay Hagan, a NC state legislator, to run against him.

As reported at EDGE last week, the HRC did not endorse either Hagan or Neal. Said the HRC’s executive director, Joe Solmonese, "Jim Neal is certainly someone who a lot of people have really been following here in Washington as an openly gay candidate, but our community down in North Carolina is really rather split between him and Kay Hagan." See Gay NC Candidate Loses Senate Bid
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