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Unprecedented Progress in Frankfort Anti-Bullying Measure Passed
House Committee 21-1
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ACLU/Fairness Dinner a Sold-Out Success Huge thanks go to Susan
Hershberg and The Wilshire Pantry for hosting and catering the
ACLU/Fairness Dinner for the 11th year in a row!Special thanks also
go to our incredible event sponsors, who helped make the dinner
possible:
Morgan Stanley Smith BarneyEleanor Bingham Miller
Natalie Bajandas, Keller Williams RealtyEmily Bingham &
Stephen Reily
Christy & Owsley BrownRebecca BrownRusty Cheuvront
Cornerstone Group RealtorsDavid DafoeJanet DakanLisa Doyle
Eric Graninger & Jeffrey BeenJohn & Mary Moss
Greenebaum
Bert GreenwellAllison Lundergan Grimes
Sandy Gulick Gill & Augusta HollandBlaine & Bani
Hudson
Jessica Loving & Sheryl SnyderJonathan Lowe
Mary LowryTom Wallace Lyons, in memory
of Henry Wallace
Magnolia's FloristErnest Marshall
Jeff NobleLisa Osanka
Eugenia & Hon. John PotterQuantum Graphics
Jeff Rodgers & Ed KrugerAaron Satran & Angela Singla
John E. SelentGreta Sherman
Jennifer Starke, State Farm InsuranceStites & Harbison
Cliff ToddCarla F. Wallace
Naomi F. WallaceDrs. Terry & Morris Weiss
Hal WarheimJane Welch
John & Marilyn Werst
Anonymous, in honor of Josena "Fi" Boucourt-Diaz
2011 Primary EndorsementJohn F. Lackey for Commissioner of
Agriculture
The Political ActionCommittee (PAC) of the FairnessCampaign,
C-FAIR, announcesits joint endorsement withKentucky Fairness
Alliance's FAIRPAC of John F. Lackey in theDemocratic Primary for
KentuckyCommissioner of Agriculture.
Originally elected to the Kentucky State Senate in1973, Mr.
Lackey helped pass historic legislation that expandedKentuckys
minimum wage law to include all workers andestablished overtime pay
for every person who labored morethan 40 hours a week. In his
C-FAIR interview, Mr. Lackeyexpressed a strong commitment to
diversity, an emphasis onfarm-to-table local agriculture, and his
desire for the ofce totake a more active role in our state's
governance.
No other primary candidate in any race returneda C-FAIR
questionnaire. There are few contested primariesin general, with
the Republican Primary for Governor andLieutenant Govenor the
highest-prole. Among candidates inthat race is Rep. Mike Harmon
(Danville), who blocked passageof Fairness' anti-bullying House
Bill 370 with two poison-pillamendments. Harmon is the Lieutenant
Governor candidaterunning alongside Phil Moffett for Governor;
other candidatesin the race include Jefferson County Clerk Bobbie
Holsclawwith Bill Vermillion, and Senate President David
Williams(Burkesville) with Commissioner of Agriculture Richie
Farmer.
Kentucky students who testitied for Rep. Mary Lou Marzian's
anti-bullying House Bill 370: (l-r) Aye Jay Long, Bradley Coffman,
Rep. Marzian, and Meghan Lampe.
John F. Lackey
The 2011 Kentucky State Legislative Session is one for the
Fairness historybooks! For the rst time ever, a piece of pro-LGBT
legislation passed a committeein our state's legislature, and it
did so with almost unanimous bi-partisan support!Rep. Mary Lou
Marzian's (Louisville) House Bill 370 would have
enumeratedprotected classes in Kentucky's anti-bullying law to
include race, religion, sex, sexualorientation, gender identity,
and many more. While the measure sailed through theHouse Education
Committee with a 21-1 vote, it was permanently stalled in thefull
House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Harmon (Danville), who
proposed two
amendments to the bill allowing for verbal bullying and
harassment, and the rightto conceal and carry deadly rearms on our
Commonwealth's college campuses.Though the bill ultimately failed,
its progress was historic!
This was also the second year in a row that not a single piece
of anti-Fairness legislation was proposed in either the Kentucky
House or Senate, and weonce again achieved a record number of
co-sponsors on our anti-discriminationStatewide Fairness law! This
session's addition of Louisville South End Senator PerryClark
brought the number of Senate co-sponsors on Statewide Fairness to
ve, whilethe number of House co-sponsors held rm at last year's
record, ten.
The Fairness Campaign and its Statewide Coalition partners aim
to buildon our 2011 legislative victories by reintroducing the
anti-bullying bill in the 2012session, as well as seeking the
rst-ever committee hearing on Statewide Fairness.
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PLAN TO ATTEND THESE UPCOMING FAIRNESS EVENTS!Dismantling Racism
Committee - May 4,
June 1, 6:30 p.m., Fairness, 2263 Frankfort Ave.Down & Derby
- May 7, 8 p.m. -2 a.m.,
Water Tower, 3005 River Road, $30 benetitingThe WINGS Clinic, DJ
Brynn Taylor
Pride Committee - May 10, 24, 31; June 7& 14, 6:30 p.m.,
Fairness, 2263 Frankfort Ave.
'It Gets Better' Panel Discussion - May 11,7 p.m., Carmichael's
Books, 2720 Frankfort Ave.
Coordinating Committee Monthly Mtg -
May 15, June 19, 5-7 p.m., Fairness,2263 Frankfort Ave.
2011 Primary Election - May 17, 6 a.m.-6 p.m.,
www.elect.ky.gov
Pandora's 'LGBTQ Youth Project' - June 5,2 p.m., Unity of
Louisville, 757 S. Brook St.
Kentuckiana Pride Parade - June 17, 8 p.m.,Main Street, Downtown
Louisville
Kentuckiana Pride Festival - June 18, 10 a.m.
-Midnight, Belvedere, 5th & Main StreetsVisit
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Correction: In the Feb./March edition of ournewsletter, we
accidentally omitted a donationmade to the Fairness Campaign in
2010:
A Donation was Received in Honor of:Leo Luther
From "TheAfterPARTY"following theLady Gaga
concert!
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