Greensboro ‘not ready’ for domestic partner benefits, says Council candidate

by Matt | August 24th, 2007 |

In the on-going posting of conservative Greensboro blogger Joe Guarino’s candidate questionnaire, one including a question on the issue of domestic partner benefits for city employees, another City Council candidate has responded.

Greg Woodard, an At-Large candidate who has also agreed to complete the InterstateQ.com LGBT issues candidate questionnaire, says that Greensboro isn’t ready for domestic partnerships.

From Guarino:

7. Do you support same-sex domestic partner benefits for City employees?

No, I do not think the city is ready for it.

Oh. Really?

A major metropolitan city in North Carolina, competing with other markets sometimes five times larger than itself and struggling to keep high-paying, dynamic businesses and experienced, young professionals? Struggling to attract huge business (with more than half of all Fortune 500 companies offering similar DP benefits to their employees)? We aren’t ready for it?

Okay… I mean, whatever. If we want to be like not even a dot on the map, fine by me.

As I said, Woodard has agreed to complete the InterstateQ.com candidate questionnaire, so I hope to get a better sense of where he stands.

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Matt, 22, is an LGBT journalist, activist and youth advocate currently living and working in Charlotte, N.C., where he serves as the Editor of Q-Notes, the Carolinas' LGBT news source. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Matt attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is still continuing to pursue his bachelors degree. He is the Owner & Editor of InterstateQ.com and has been active in LGBT advocacy work since the age of 14.

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  1. 6 Responses to “Greensboro ‘not ready’ for domestic partner benefits, says Council candidate”

  2. Gee, which other N.C. politician said he was “just not there yet”?

    /teasing

    By KipEsquire on Aug 24, 2007

  3. Ha Ha very funny. :)

    By Matt on Aug 24, 2007

  4. Greensboro? Really?

    Greensboro is about as gay as the day is long.

    In other news, you should be proud of me, Matt. I’m doing training in a couple weeks to volunteer at an LGBT helpline here in town.

    By Sarah on Aug 25, 2007

  5. Very awesome Sarah. Which “in town”? Raleigh/Durham? Unless something new has happened we no longer have a telephone hotline for LGBT support in the Triad.

    By Matt on Aug 25, 2007

  6. Raleigh/Durham. I was being vague because. . .I’m not sure why I was being vague.

    By Sarah on Aug 25, 2007

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