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Saturday, January 25, 2020

HRC, Bean Adams Sondland Portland

Hill Rod Clinton HRC



Terry Bean....
"Bean often hosts fundraising events in his Portland home for Democratic politicians including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore"

Sam Adams

Gordon Sondland

(oregon)
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"But the HRC was not giving him or Sanders a pass.

We should always be willing to educate individuals who operate from a place of bias,” David said,

“but we should not directly or indirectly validate or celebrate them."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/bernie-sanders-joe-rogan-human-rights-campaign

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The City Club of Portland


The City Club of Portland is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic organization based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1916, the organization had approximately 1500 members and a paid staff of 4 in 2013. The former Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, served as Executive Director 2013 to 2015.

The City Club of Portland was closed to women until pressure by lawyer and future City Commissioner Mildred Schwab was successful in opening its meetings.

The club, all-male for roughly six decades, began admitting women to membership in October 1973.

City Club functions include Friday Forums built around speeches by experts in government, the arts, sciences, and education. The forums, which are open to the public, take place between 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on Fridays at the Sentinel Hotel (ex-Governor Hotel) in downtown Portland. Audio recordings of the forums, updated weekly, are available online as MP3 digital audio files that can be downloaded from the City Club web site. Local radio and television stations broadcast live or taped forums at various times during the week

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In the early 1990s, the hotel served as the filming location for several films: Portlander Gus Van Sant filmed a scene of My Own Private Idaho and Madonna filmed several scenes of Body of Evidence inside.

Address 614 SW 11th Avenue
Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Owner Provenance Hotels, Gordon Sondland....EU Ambassador for Trump. a Three Amigo.
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Critics have taken HRC to task for its working environment. In the fall of 2014, HRC commissioned outside consultants to conduct a series of focus groups and surveys with the organization's staff.

 In the report, which was obtained by BuzzFeed, staff of the organization described the working environment at HRC as "judgmental", "exclusionary", "sexist", and "homogenous". The report stated that "Leadership culture is experienced as homogenous — gay, white, male."



In 1992, HRC endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, Bill Clinton. In March 1993, HRC began a new project, National Coming Out Day. From January 1995 until January 2004, Elizabeth Birch served as the executive director of the HRC. Under her leadership, the institution more than quadrupled its membership to 500,000 members.[12]


In 1995, the organization dropped the word "Fund" from its name, becoming the Human Rights Campaign


*******So, Wikipedia omits Terry Bean.

Terrence Patrick Bean is an American political fundraiser, a civil rights activist, and a pioneer of the LGBT rights movement. 

He is known for co-founding several national LGBT rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bean


he late 1970s saw a rash of successful anti-gay ballot measures around the country. Realizing that their state-by-state efforts were failing, leaders of the gay and lesbian rights movement decided to focus their efforts on the national level. This led to the founding by Terry Bean and others of the Gay Rights National Lobby (GRNL) and the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), two groups which later merged to become the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).[2][4][5][9][10]

Bean was the primary fundraiser for GRNL,[7] when it was still a new organization, and created the "GRNL 48", a club of top donors who contributed $1,200 or more per year. In its early history, the group found it difficult to find politicians willing to accept campaign contributions from a gay PAC.[11] The GRNL 48 eventually became the HRC's Federal Club.[2][4]

Bean has been on the Human Rights Campaign's Board of Directors since 1980. He is also a member of its Foundation Board and its Public Policy Committee.[12] and takes part in deciding the organization's political endorsements.[10]

HRC headquarters building

In 2000, the HRC launched its Capitol Campaign to raise the funds to purchase a suitable headquarters in the nation's capital. Bean was a co-chair of this campaign. In 2002, the HRC acquired a medium-rise office building in Washington, DC, from B'nai B'rith International to use as its national headquarters. Joe Solmonese, the Executive Director of HRC, has said that Terry Bean was instrumental in acquiring the building.[5] Elizabeth Birch, the Executive Director of the organization during the time when the building was purchased, believes that Bean's background in real estate was crucial in the purchase. "All of us had very healthy skepticism. Generally, nonprofits do not buy buildings... But there was only one guy in the crowd who said, 'We have to do this. This is historic...' And it was the guy who knew most about Real Estate and that was Terry.

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"On November 19, 2014, Terry Bean was arrested on charges of sodomy and sex abuse in a case involving a 15-year-old boy, in what Bean's lawyer Kristen Winemiller characterized as an extortion attempt by an ex-lover.[29]

 Law enforcement sources said Bean was charged with "two counts of sodomy in the third degree, a felony, and sex abuse in the third degree, a misdemeanor." He was arraigned in Lane County, Oregon, where the crimes allegedly occurred in 2013.[30]

After the case continued for over a year, lawyers for Bean and the youth reached a civil agreement,[31][32] which the judge ultimately rejected.[33] The alleged victim declined to testify, his attorney Lori Deveny stating that "he did not seek out this prosecution and made his unwillingness to testify known at every step of the process".[32] The judge dismissed the case on September 1, 2015 without prejudice.[34][35] In a statement, Bean wrote "I take some measure of comfort that the world now knows what I have always known – that I was falsely accused and completely innocent of every accusation that was made."[35]

  On January 4, 2019, Bean was re-indicted on the same charges"


Oh, theres More.... MSG..... and their Lawyer stole tall THEIR money.
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2016 United States presidential endorsement

On January 19, 2016, the Human Rights Campaign's 32-person Board of Directors voted to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.[79] This resulted in considerable controversy,[80][81][82] causing thousands of users on HRC's Facebook page to post comments critical of the decision.[83]

 Many cited HRC's own "congressional scorecard" (which records a 100% rating for her rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, while Clinton herself only scores 89%[84]) as inconsistent with their endorsement.[83]

Additional scrutiny was also placed upon the connections Clinton herself has to the organization when it was revealed that HRC's President, Chad Griffin, had previously been employed by Clinton's husband, former US President Bill Clinton.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Birch

Birch was worldwide director of litigation for Apple Computer and general counsel for its Claris subsidiary until 1995

In 2003, the organization opened its national headquarters building in Washington, D.C. During her tenure, a major problem arose when the HRC endorsed New York Senator Al D'Amato for re-election in 1998 when he was opposed by Chuck Schumer.[6]

Birch was executive director of the HRC until January 2004 when she left to spend more time with her partner, Hilary Rosen, and their children.[7] She joined the Howard Dean presidential campaign as a senior advisor. She then became a professional public speaker.


Under the tenure of Elizabeth Birch, the HRC strongly opposed the inclusion of transgender rights as an HRC policy priority by excluding trans organizations from the decision-making process.[8]

It has been alleged that Elizabeth Birch stated that the HRC would only support inclusion of transgender rights in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act "over her dead body

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I'll add Glen Greenwald
To the Putin lover
Team

Just for measure.








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