What's up with Victory Fund?
What in the world is the national Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund thinking attacking San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera?
Even to promote former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who I support for mayor, even a political action committee organized to promote lesbian and gay candidates, should never attack a local hero of SF's LGBT movement. I've worked hard in the LGBT legal movement nationally and in San Francisco for over 20 years, and never been more impressed than I was with Herrera and his entire office while they have ceaselessly fought for my marriage equality.
And to do it with negative smear piece I just got in my mailbox, leaves me speechless, and of no mind to support the Victory Fund ever again. To me, it smells like a dirty trick engineered against the power of the LGBT community's vote for either of our two hero candidates �" Herrera or Dufty �" and perhaps for Ed Lee. Shame.
Charlie Spiegel, Esq.
San Francisco
SF sheriff's race
We are law enforcement officers, firefighters, longtime staff of the sheriff's department, assistant district attorneys, and LGBT activists. We represent all sides of both the criminal justice and the LGBT communities: from putting the most serious and violent offenders in custody to creating programs responsive to those who commit offenses and for those who have survived violence. We are also active in the fight for equality for our communities.
While we come from every angle of both the public safety system and the LGBT movements, we all agree on one thing: Chris Cunnie is the most qualified person to become the next sheriff.
Following Mike Hennessey will not be an easy task. He has served San Francisco with distinction for years. But we have seen Cunnie in action: as Hennessey's appointment as the undersheriff, as a twice-decorated police officer walking the beat, as the head of investigations for the district attorney's office, and as CEO at nationally known treatment center Walden House, we know without a doubt Chris is the best person for the job.
Only Cunnie intimately understands the way to keep us safe is to balance prison time for serious and violent felons with programs like job training, drug treatment, violence prevention and other ways to make sure people have the opportunity to get back on track for their sake and ours.
And, as LGBT activists, we know Cunnie will be the best choice for our community. We've worked with Cunnie personally and know he is the best choice for the LGBT community.
That's why Cunnie has earned the endorsements of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Supervisor Scott Wiener, former Supervisor Bevan Dufty (#2), and Treasurer Jose Cisneros.
We hope you'll join us in supporting Chris Cunnie for sheriff.
Len Broberg, Half Moon Bay
Keith Baraka, Cecilia Chung, Brian Leubitz,
Rebecca Prozan, and Sunny Schwartz
San Francisco
Thanks for erotic diversity
Kudos to John Karr for exploring more of the erotic diversity in our community ["Rising Sons," Karrnal Knowledge, October 27] . Let's hope some of the impresarios of the porn world take a cue and start casting more of the Asian and Pacific men whose hotness can be found on display in almost any club, gym, or street corner of the queer world today.
Will Roscoe
San Francisco