Quick Note: GOP is Standing By Their Theodsman
After last weeks reports/rumors from City Hall News and the Village Voice that Theodish political candidate Dan Halloran was going to be replaced by his party with a conservative Democrat in the race for a seat on New York’s City Council, it seemed only a matter of time before he “voluntarily” stepped down. But a flurry of reports since Monday seem to assert that attempts to replace Halloran were either untrue or inviable, and the New York Republicans will be standing by their man.
“Queens Republicans are vehemently denying published reports that they are going to replace Dan Halloran as their candidate for the District 19 City Council seat …“The Queens County Republican Party has not for even a moment entertained a substitution of our candidate,” said Vince Tabone, Queens executive vice chairman and spokesperson for the Halloran campaign. “What we have done is stand firmly with Dan Halloran and called on Congressman [Gary] Ackerman and his staffer Kevin Kim to renounce the vile, repugnant attacks on Dan Halloran’s faith and heritage,” he continued.”
Lisa Derrick at La Figa corrals several of the reports refuting claims that Halloran is stepping down, and interviews another Pagan lawyer from New York, author Phyllis Curott.
“Attitudes have certainly changed–the Republican Party apparently already knew he was Pagan! They’re defending his religious freedom, advocating religious tolerance and condemning a religious test for office as repugnant. Marvelous. Quite a change from Jesse Helm’s introducing legislation to take away the tax-exempt status of Wiccan religious institutions.”
Meanwhile, Chris Bragg at City Hall News, who had a hand in reporting the rumors that the GOP was looking to replace Halloran, now claims that behind-the-scenes efforts to replace Halloran with conservative Democrat Paul Vallone have failed.
“Ending conversations and speculation about whether Paul Vallone would run as a Republican in the race to replace Council Member Tony Avella, Vallone will endorse Democratic candidate Kevin Kim this afternoon, according to Kim’s campaign. The endorsement will take place at 4 p.m. at Kim’s campaign headquarters in Bayside … The endorsement comes after a day of negotiations between leaders of the Queens Democratic Party, the Kim campaign and the Vallone family … Over the past week, Queens Republicans have engaged in talks with Vallone about the replacing embattled Republican candidate Dan Halloran, whose belief in a pre-Christian pagan religion were disclosed in a Sept. 17 article in the Queens Tribune.”
Whether Curott is correct and attitudes within the (New York) GOP have changed, or if the party simply couldn’t replace Halloran in way that didn’t look bad for them, it looks like Halloran will remain the Republican (and Libertarian, Independence, and Conservative) candidate for District 19 city council. Now, onto the race! I can’t wait to see the polling for this one.
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The cock still has to crow twice more.
That reference would seem more appropriate for Lady Raya. Halloran has never denied his faith, where she already has twice (once on the talk show and once again on her blog).
Nice!
I did not read her blog as denying her faith, but as explaining why she had such a kneejerk reaction.
Awesome, let's all help a party that is in bed with the Christian Right, who wouldn't think twice about hanging us all if we got a chance.
Dan has a few skeltons in his closet (and has made enough non-friends) which could come out if he rises too far into the spot light.
Or it was accidentally caught in the spam-trap and you're jumping to
conclusions.
People keep on hinting at this in every post about him- just come out and see it. Use a library computer if you don't want it to trace back to you
Reinstitution of slavery? Must have missed that
[...] that the Dan Halloran issue seems to be settled (at least until election day), lets turn to the other candidate who was recently outed as a Pagan. [...]
I think contemporary paganism does a fine job of embarrassing itself without the help of Theodism.
And it looks like my original comment has posted. Thank you.
That explains it, then: my post was rather long. Thanks again.
[...] October 2, 2009 Posted by Raleigh in In the news, Paganism, Politics, Religion. trackback The republican party is supporting Dan Halloran for a seat on the New York City Council, despite his recent outing as a follower of Theodish [...]
Why, thank you. I try.
Agreed. Clearly this troll has nothing of import to say.
[...] I thought I was done talking about New York City Council candidate, and “outed” Theodsman, Dan Halloran [...]
Then why does Lord Dan show up at Starwood to proselytize?
Good question. I have no idea, nor is it something other Theodish groups would do.
Dude, yer being a troll. One that wants to dish it out but won't take it. Suck your own bilge.
Just for the sake of clarity: was that comment direct at lokisgodhi or at bogomil?
Thanks for clearing that up!
Beats me. That's one of the differences between the Normans and the rest of Theodism.
[...] The American Spectator hasn’t gotten the memo that modern Paganism and conservative politics have no trouble co-existing. How else to explain this time-warp of an essay from Australian writer Hal Colebatch? Colebatch [...]