An intra-GOP, gay-related, squabble has broken out between the College Republicans at George Washington University and Meghan McCain. From The Edge:
McCain finds herself squarely in the middle of a new controversy. George Washington University’s Allied in Pride student group invited McCain to be the keynote speaker in its "Marriage Equality Week" program. But McCain was also booked to speak at the Washington, D.C., university’s event "Redefining Republican: No Labels, No Boxes, No Stereotypes" on Feb. 9.This piece is disturbing on several levels. First, what's wrong with those College Republicans? They're too young to be homophobic. Second, organizations will actually pay Meghan McCain $7,500 to speak? Wow. That's just wrong.
"She a different type of Republican," Michael Komo, the president of Allied in Pride, told The Hatchet, the student newspaper. "We thought her input would be helpful on the subject of marriage and the future of the GOP."
But George Washington’s College Republicans weren’t so enthusiastic. "Our executive board was told that Meghan McCain’s primary focus would be her opinion on what it means to be a Republican," a spokesperson for the club told the Hatchet. "We later discovered through her Twitter and subsequent conversations with the SA and [the Graduate School of Political Management] that she would be giving the keynote address for Marriage Equality Week."
The GOP club claims it was not told McCain would be at the school as part of a marriage equality event. McCain’s booking agency is reportedly receiving $7,500 as a speaking fee via Greater Talent Network in New York.
