Jean Stothert or Brad Ashford for Omaha mayor?For gay conservatives, a no-brainer choice

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Who's dumber? Fake Mean Jean dodges bullet in NE Lt. Gov. sex scandal; real Stothert tries to tap opponent for contribution; Wheatfields turns patrons into antigay candidate boosters whether they like it or not

Fake Jean Stothert was clever enough not to arrange trysts with Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy on his state-issued cell phone and to let Gov. Heineman watch, so as to destroy the plausible deniability he thinks people are now buying in respect of his supposed lack of knowledge of Sheehy's multiple affairs and misuse of state property even though Nebraska Democrats were buzzing about all this last summer and KETV has been investigating this for months, sending the state a request for phone records in November.

     Real Jean Stothert just sent GOP mayoral candidate Dan Welch (that would be her opponent) a fund raising appeal. Oh hell, let's be nice. Maybe the administration of her campaign to run Omaha isn't really that stupid. Maybe she's just trying to help out the US Postal Service with its deficit.

     Leavenworth St. noticed this latest example of Stothert's ineptitude and we have to credit them for that, as well as for the most shameless GOP spin we saw this week — a dismissal of Sheehy's jaw-dropping behavior so cavalier than even the Gov. and Lt. Gov. didn't go there:

Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy has resigned — reportedly because of, basically, an affair. (Used a state phone, but so what.)

     Umm... four affairs... Umm... misused state phone 2,300+ times for more than 28,000 minutes.

     Meanwhile one of our spies, who is an impeccable source and actually owns a journalism degree that has her name on it, informed AKSARBENT of this:

Speaking of Mean Jean — one of her supporters is Ron Popp, formerly of the Garden Cafe, now of Wheatfields. Not that big a shock, as I suspect most of the restaurant owners who tried to get rid of the restaurant tax are supporting anyone who is not Suttle. How big a supporter, you ask? Well... one Sunday morning ***** and I went to breakfast at the Wheatfields in the Old Market. Probably just after the new year. Hot tea and coffee came in brand new glass Wheatfields mugs. One side was emblazoned with the Wheatfields logo, while the other side had a big old Jean Strothert for Mayor logo. So everyone with a hot drink was advertising Mean Jean for mayor. I only regret not taking a picture to send you.

We end our coverage of Councilwoman and mayoral aspirant Jean Stothert, as always, with her tough love lecture of gay constituents just before she voted to ensure that gay Omahans would have no legal recourse here when jerked around because of their sexual orientation by local 'phobes.

Local reactionary blog, Objective Conservative, suddenly very concernstipated about Chuck Hagel's rumoured firing of lesbian staffer

In a weird post entitled, "Just How Pro-Gay Has Hagel Become?" [AKSARBENT left off three of the four question marks.] Objective Conservative has become so worried that Chuck Hagel may have evolved beyond his heterosexual supremacist mindset, (making him INCONSISTENT!) or may not have (making him a PANDERING LIAR!) that it seems to have retired to its Log Cabin Republicans Memorial Fainting Couch over Hagel's rumored firing of a lesbian staffer.

Yes, like his former stance on abortion and just about everything else, Hagel seems to be willing to say anything and change anything he ever supposedly believed in to be relevant---to become Secretary of Defense.
     So now that Hagel has recanted all his former anti-gay attitudes we think maybe it is time for him to fess up. Did he really fire a well-regarded young lady employee in his U.S. Senate office and send her packing back to Omaha because he found out that she was gay?
     We have every reason to believe he did. But, sadly, that lady now works for a firm that happens to be just a little enamored by Chuck Hagel and a potential position as Secretary of Defense.
     ...maybe it's just time he apologized to that young lady whose life was forever changed by his bigotry? [AKSARBENT left off five of the six question marks.]

     An observance: US Senators and Representatives have exempted themselves from virtually all antidiscrimination employment laws that the rest of us must follow. They can basically do what they like.
     Another observance: While AKSARBENT is not a fan of Objective Conserative, we know someone who is!
     A final observance: We at AKSARBENT were really quite touched by Objective Conservative's heartfelt empathy with the young lesbian whose life was "forever changed by his [Hagel's alleged homophobic] bigotry."
     Therefore you can imagine our confusion when we spied OC's "Upcoming Events" sidebar promoting a $50-per-person fundraiser for Jean Stothert, the same Mean Jean who attempted to play Omaha's gay community for fools in the Omaha City Council Chamber, just before before voting against Omaha's LGBT antibias ordinance.
     Gosh, Objective Conservative, doesn't charitable concern about antigay bias begin at home?

Mean Jean Stothert runs for mayor: soon gay Omahans outside her district will be able to vote against her, too!

We suppose it would be melodramatic to harp on Jean Stothert's particular animus toward her gay constituents, since she appears to be contemptuous of many other groups too, but her announcement that she will join a crowded field of GOP mayoral aspirants gives us another excuse to remind AKSARBENT readers of what she really thinks of gay Omahans. Her parody twitter account is probably closer to reality than her press conferences.

Mean Jean Stothert now on twitter

If you're not following the hilarious fake twitter account of councilwoman Mean Jean Stothert, what are you waiting for? And yes, the video referenced is AKSARBENT's own catalogue of Stothert's dissemblage and antigay mischief at the City Council meeting before she voted against Ben Gray's passed ordinance to protect LGBT Omahans in employment and public accommodations.

The Mean Jean Stothert Chronicles: Trying to kill Omaha's LGBT protection measure

Jean Stothert, the GOP terror of District Five, had quite a bit to say about the LGBT community before she voted against Ben Gray's ordinance to extend employment and public accommodations protections to them. AKSARBENT was there and managed to get most of her comments recorded without throwing up. She has a history of homophobia going back to her tenure on the Millard School Board.

We weren't the only ones repulsed. A group has already formed to get rid of her:

http://omahawomen.wordpress.com/