Glenn Nixon

[Anthony Martinez]

This is big!!  We have to use this. 

http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=513923

Glenn Nixon supports gay marriage, says current law violates equal protection

Oct. 25, 2013, 4:14 pm

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In a week where supporters and opponents of gay marriage converged in Springfield to lobby state lawmakers during the fall veto session, Glenn Nixon, the Republican vying for Democrat Kate Cloonen's House seat, said he would support a gay marriage bill.  Though traditionally a partisan issue, Republicans have begun to buck expectation and have publicly supported civil unions or gay marriage.  Some do so for personal reasons. Others, like state Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Champaign, the lone GOP vote in the Senate this year when civil unions became law, do so on the principle of limiting government overreach.  Earlier this week, Nixon said the civil unions law falls far short of equal protection, keeping murky issues of taxes, health care and wills.  "Civil unions do not fulfill what it was designed to do," Nixon said. The Bourbonnais police officer narrowly lost to Cloonen in the November 2012 election.  Cloonen, who joined the General Assembly after its vote on civil unions, said she would not support gay marriage, saying the majority of the 79th House district, which includes all of Kankakee County, does not support it.  Meanwhile, Nixon said the current proposed gay marriage bill, which will likely not be brought up for a vote until January, needs an overhaul.  "My personal beliefs have nothing to do with it," he said. "This is about protecting people."  Pat Brady, former chairman of the state GOP, made headlines in January when he came out in support of gay marriage. State Treasurer Dan Rutherford voted for civil unions when he was a state senator. He is running for governor. Gov. Pat Quinn said he would sign gay marriage into law.

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[Eric Herman]

Although in this piece, Nixon alleges that the current bill has problems, which is not helpful.

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[Anthony Martinez]

We have been working on this with him, as has Bill Brady. and  I do believe he is in support of the current bill. He is not quoted as saying that, so I did reach out to him to ask him to clarify. If he comes back in full support we should do something with it. 

Anthony Martinez

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[Ed Yohnka]

Just FYI – this is complicated.   The Journal knew that Nixon was being pushed to go public with his position on marriage.   On Friday afternoon, the local politics reporter called Nixon and he went on the record as appears in this story.   Later in the afternoon, after the story was on the website, Nixon “reconsidered.”  He phoned the publisher, who convinced the editor to take the story down.  It did NOT run in the print edition of the paper over the weekend.  (They produce a Sunday edition on Saturday).   Today, the reporter is re-doing a marriage story, focusing instead on remarks by the local NAACP President over the weekend endorsing marriage.   So, this is not great for us at this point. 

 

Ed

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[John Kohlhepp]

It is complicated.  I hear Rich Miller has it too.