The deadline for both federal and state candidates to qualify in order to be placed on the ballot for the November elections has come and gone.
In Florida’s Congressional District 20, there were two Republican candidates did not qualify, but three others did. One of the candidates that qualified in FL-20 is businesswoman Donna E. Milo. Milo has recently attracted national attention because of the fact that she is transgendered and also happens to be is running for federal office. Her announcement is nothing less than courageous and should be applauded. Donna Milo was born in Cuba and like most, escaped the island in search of a better life her in the United States. As an avid supporter of the 2nd Amendment and a gun owner herself, Donna Milo has lived in the congressional district for over 35 years and seems to have her hand on the pulse of the District and its constituents. She is also a staunch pro-life candidate who has consistently taken that position. I met up with Milo yesterday at Miami City Hall where she is the Vice Chair of the City of Miami Planning Advisory Board.
Visit the website at: www.donnamilo.com
Donna you clearly have a great position stance showing real understanding of the issues!
The history of Gays voting Republican is quite interesting. Most of the research is from the New York Times’ (NYT) exit polling, which includes self-identified Gays.
Ronald Reagan and Popa Bush both garnered over 40 percent of the Gay vote in elections 1980, 1984 and 1988. That means 2 out of 5 Gay voters voted Republican during the “Reagan Era”.
In 1994, when the “Contract for America” and the Newt Gingrich Congress was all the rage, the NYT’s exit polls said that 46 percent of Gays voted with the GOP.
In 2000 and 2004, George W. Bush and Karl Rove were not particularly popular with Gay Independents and Democrats, so the GOP carried only it’s Gay base — 1 out of 4 Gay voters.
For whatever reason, in 2008 1 out of 3 Gay voters pulled the lever for McCain, an otherwise weak candidate.; but all the rage was about Gays voting for “Yo Mama”, I mean, Obama
I am encouraged that a person of character is standing up to the nonsense that is Debbie Wasserman-Shultz. It doesn’t matter to me that Donna is transgendered. What matters to me is that she is a Conservative who believes in the Constitution of the United States. I believe that a lot of us could learn some valuable lessons from the Americans of Cuban extraction who live in South Florida. They know from personal experience or from family what it’s like to live under the kind of government that the Left would foist off on us. I only wish that I lived in the District so I could vote for Ms. Milo, but I also take heart in the fact that I can, and I will, and I will encourage everyone that I meet who lives in my District, to vote for Allen West, another of my personal heroes.
Why does Shark call this candidacy courageous?
This shows the Republican Party has slipped even further from its founding principals.
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she would be a great asset to the party. the GOP needs to open up more to their gay and transgender Conservative members. she isn’t an “activist” pushing her personal decision on others, that is completely in line with being a Conservative. It is the radical gay groups that make a bad name for those who just want to live their lives as they see fit..
It is not “courageous” to call yourself a woman when you are a man and it certainly isn’t courageous that BHO wants to pass EDNA and force the rest of society participate in the dillusion by lying and calling a he a she, allowing him to use the women’s restroom and shower facilities or employers/co-workers can be fired, fined or jailed. All the surgery and shots in the world will not change someone’s gender and I would rather face jail then lie and participate in the dillusion.
It is not only the fact that the Wasserman-Schultz witch supports Obama’s anti-Israel position it’s also that her political action committee makes contributions to anti-Israel House members. The Wasserman-Schultz witch refuses to disclose the donees of her political action (527) committee and callers to her Washington office are met with refusal to answer this question: “Which of the House members who signed the letter to President Obama calling for an end to aid to Israel for defending itslef in Gaza have received contributions from the Wasserman Schultz PAC?” The aides refuse to answer.
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I can care less who or what you are. If your right on the issues then you got my vote. And Milo is right on the money!
There are few congress-critters worse than Wasserman-Schultz from a constitutional conservative viewpoint. So, almost anyone would be more acceptable or at least couldn’t be worse than that extreme liberal, W-S, who has no respect for our Constitution. This “trans-gender” candidate talks a good game but surely there are other candidates who aren’t weighed down by a pyschological disorder of an underdeveloped gender identity as this candidate. We’ve had our bad experiences with Mark Foley and others who also took conservative positions but that didn’t work out so well. Let’s look at the other candidates, please.
Now more political and economic capital is being wasted on yet another primary.I see this all as either Democrat party chicanery aimed at splitting us up or as opportunists who now feel the time is right for Republicans in otherwise historical Democrat victories now that the electorate is finally waking up.Go with those who from the beginning were in this deal when it wasn’t so popular to be constitutionalist Republicans.Who were not fair weather Republicans but remained in the words of Allen West:Steadfast and loyal.This shows their adherance to their core principles.(PS.even Allen now has a “Republican” primary opponent.)
Conservative? Oh, please….
What would be Donna Milo’s position on gay marriage and gay couple’s adopting children?
Joan, she told me she is against gay marriage. As for the gay adoption, I assume she is against it-I will ask her.
Deleted my post, eh? We’re not allowed to express our religious and conservative views that it is wrong and immoral to change one’s sex from what God made you, eh? I thought this was a conservative organization, not one that promotes ‘transgenders.’ I didn’t think you had to be ‘politically correct’ to post here without your words disappearing. I am disappointed. I thought this was a good, grassroots, conservative group. Now I see I have to compromise my closely held religious and political views to particicpate. Hell, I might as well be on Daily Kos or Huffington as this place if my religious and conservative convictions get censored. Whatever.
@jeff
I don’t delete posts unless they are vulgar and offensive. Notice how I did not delete this post of yours. I must have deleted it by accident when I delete the hundreds of spam posts.
Jeff I defend your right to your religous views and I quite frankly do not even begin to comprehend this transgender issue (nor do i comprehend Dobson, Haggard, Swaggart, Foley, Reken et al). That said from looking at the video I see a person who says that she is an American first and espouses some very conservative views.
That doesn’t mean I will vote her based simply on a video but I will not discard this candidate either based solely on the fact the she is transgender.
I will look at all these candidates and base myself on their history and how that relates to their stands on the issues I as a voter feel are important, free market principles and national defense.
I have met Donna. She is a warm and personable human being who espouses conservative values. To those who have posted that her principles are not consistent with the foundation of our party you need to check you history books.
Gay persons have adopted children.Please don’t assume they grow up to be gay.
Funny I should come back to this page from a completely different story. In any case, I still strongly believe that the term “conservative” “transgender” is in itself an oxymoron of the first order, there is absolutely nothing “conservative” about being a “transgender,” it is an antithesis. A true conservative does not support transgenderfication any more than they do gay rights.
Now I know there is a difference between fiscal and social conservatives but my definition of a true conservative is one who is both fiscally and socially conservative. Personally, a fiscal conservative who is liberal on moral issues is not much better than a fiscal liberal who is conservative on social issues. They’re both like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold and not good for much.
That being said, I pray to God that Harrington or the other guy, his name won’t come to me right now, wins the primary so I won’t be faced with the terrible conundrum of being forced to choose between voting for someone who is called and is supposed to be a “conservative” but violates one of my most closely held moral beliefs and one of the worst, most despicable Communists in the Democratic Party, namely Wasserman-Schultz who I despise with a passion. It would be exactly like 2008 all over again, having to choose the lesser of two evils. In the end I suppose I would have to vote for anyone or anything instead of that devil Schultz, no matter how painful it would be. It would be even worse than having to vote for McCain to try to keep Obambi out of the White House, but at least it would replace one of the worst D’s in the House with an R. So I would have to do it. I just hope it never comes to having to make that choice.