Quips & Quotes

“More than anything else, what I’m doing is giving the Republicans and independents an alternative to vote for.”

–         Melvin Nimer, telling The Salt Lake Tribune about his run for Senate District 2.

“So, if McAdams [a gay-friendly Mormon who replaced openly gay Sen. Scott McCoy] weren’t interesting enough all on his own, now he’s being challenged by a gay man, a Gay Republican, no less, and they’re always interesting.”

–         Jesse Fruhwirth on City Weekly‘s news blog.

“Personally, I think this is a simple way for the Republican Party to throw Mel Nimer and the Utah Log Cabin Republicans under the bus. With 2 months until the election, and with all of the qualified candidates they could have picked from, the Repub’s decided to throw the gay head of a gay political group into a race against the biggest ally the State has in the Senate? With virtually no time to raise funds or to get a campaign off the ground. Sounds very….. Republican to me.”

– Eric Ethington of Pride in Utah.

“The fact that the Utah Republican Party nominated an openly gay man is amazing no matter how you slice it. We’re talking about the reddest of red states here kids.”

– Commenter “Michael M.” on the same post.

“I want to bring awareness to Tooele, especially since it’s a smaller city. I know there could be youth out there struggling with issues and I want people to know that there are other people out there.”

–         Robin Sheehy, founder of Come Out Tooele, in the Tooele Transcript Bulletin.