Dennis Steele taking money from ranting homophobe

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Giving new meaning to the word "Free" Vermont, independent gubernatorial candidate Dennis Steele, who has a commanding negative 40-something percent lead over Pete Shumlin and Brian Dubie, has a bit of a donor problem that stands in stark contrast to his folksy demeanor and emphasis on "freedom". As Rowley over at VT Secession has just pointed out, one of Steele’s largest out-of-state contributors, a man named James Duncan, had this to say in one of his contributions to the Free Vermont listserv that Odum blogged about here a few weeks ago:

“As with all our problems in America, good people keep hacking at the branches instead of getting to the root of the evil that plagues us. Hence the cycles of war, economic depression, cultural Marxism, etc. continue. I just had a perfectly pleasant day ruined by reading Vermont Magazine. In the Letters to the Editor column, an obnoxiously militant lesbian threatens to cancel her subscription unless they include gay weddings in their next Weddings issue. The individual is a public relations professor and chairperson at a university. How unfortunate that such a rude individual has a position of influence over young people. I guess everyone has their unique perversions but society would be best served if they kept them to themselves and their private circle. I resent having someone else’s shoved in my face. At any rate, bandaids will be the order of the day until someone amputates the entire system.”

One can only wonder what else Duncan would like to amputate. No word yet from Steele as to whether or not he agrees with Duncan, or if he plans on returning the contribution.

I know that most of us don’t take these people seriously. However, there are some who might support Steele as some sort of “protest vote”. Just make sure you keep these things in mind if you do. Steele’s tied with perennial anti-Semitic candidate Chris Ericsson from the CAPSLOCK party, so he’s already in good company.

33 thoughts on “Dennis Steele taking money from ranting homophobe”

  3. This message was passed to me by a mutual friend of ours.  

    There is nothing of substance in this blog post whatsoever except that perhaps James Duncan is a curmudgeonly asshole from a dying generation of homophobes.

    This post serves no other purpose but to put ‘homophobe’ and ‘Dennis Steele’ in the same sentence.  Extending your logic that this topic is worthy of discussion / thought, why don’t we  bash every political candidate ever, as surely each and everyone of them has accepted money from someone who has done something politically incorrect that we can bash them for.

    The attack is so transparent and without substance I’m frankly embarrassed that it was passed to me as something worthy of reading.  

    “However, there are some who might support Steele as some sort of “protest vote”. Just make sure you keep these things in mind if you do.”

    Take what into consideration?  Someone whom Steele shook hands with once is gasp too fucking stupid to realize homophobia is ignorant?

    ” No word yet from Steele as to whether or not he agrees with Duncan, or if he plans on returning the contribution. ”

    Let me guess how much time you gave him to ‘send word’ before posting this..  

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