Good for her for being upfront about this.

For whatever its worth, it did cost her my vote.

Let the healing begin.

Yeah, I agree with the statement above. She lost my vote this time but I'm open to her changing her stance on the issue.

I voted for her anyway. It was nice to hear her say all that. And refreshing.

I voted for her because Pat Anderson was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs--"nonessential service", my gay ass.

Even if Rebecca turns out to be not-so-gay friendly, it's not as if Pat was a champion of gay rights--in that respect, we lose nothing and still gain a state auditor who can count without using her fingers and toes.

Along the same lines as a thread I saw on MNpublius...

We don't necessarily hold DOMA against Clinton, nor against the memory of Paul Wellstone. I see that side of the argument. However, she then proceeded to go on TV with an ad that began, "I'm Rebecca Otto, and I live my values." The ad addresses environmental issues (yes, not even the Green candidate makes his own wind energy), however, I took issue with that opening statement. In other interviews (and in a reply to my personal email asking her about it), she states that she voted for the marriage amendment to the Republicans wouldn't have that as a wedge issue against her for re-election. Her exact words to me were, "My vote was my refusal to let the republicans put me in their message box.".

If she felt strongly against the marriage amendment, but voted for it due to political expediency, then I have trouble with her claim that she lives her values. Nor do I think pointing it out was "dirty campaigning".

(Kudos for the windmills though.)

That all said, it didn't cost her my vote per se -- Dave Berger had it to begin with. So maybe I'm biased. But in any case I'm not at all upset she got the job. And this whole thing is moot anyway, the state suditor will not be addressing gay marriage or the lack thereof.

I fail to see how pointing out a candidates anti-gay voting record qualifies as "dirty politics." If Otto didn't want this issue in the campaign, perhaps she should have thought twice before blythely tossing our rights in the trash like a used political tissue.

Her current "whoopsie" will not gain my trust. NO politician, no matter how much we may like them, should win our trust as we learned with Wellstone, who incidentally, never changed his position on gay marriage. In his book, he said he "still wonders" if he did the right thing in voting for DOMA. Translated, he was still pretty satisfied that voting queers into second class citizenship was ok. That's a far cry from "deep regret."

If Otto gets in front of the cameras in January and urges the legislature to pass a law ensuring equal marriage rights for same sex couples in Minnesota because it will, among other things, contribute to the states economic health, I may become a believer.