Don Dwyer, the anti-gay Republican Maryland House of Delegate representing District 31 in Anne Arundel County who drunkenly crashed his boat and injured four children last August, is claiming that “family issues” and the fact that some of his Republican colleagues voted for same-sex marriage in that state is what led him to start drinking.
Pressures at home were met with challenges in the State House.
Dwyer says he felt sold out when Dels. Tiffany Alston, Wade Kach and Bob Costa voted for same-sex marriage, an issue he spent years crusading against. Dwyer told reporters one day before the vote that he had enough support to block the bill.
Kach, a Republican from Baltimore County, and Alston, a former Democrat from Prince George’s County, voted against the bill in committee. But Kach changed his vote after hearing testimony from gay couples. Alston shifted her vote after her amendment was adopted.Kach and Costa, of Deale, were the only two House Republicans to vote for the bill. It passed the House by two votes in February.
“I had no time to do anything,” Dwyer said. “Had I known earlier, I could have taken some action.”
It was petitioned to the November ballot and passed by 52 percent of voters state wide. Voters in Dwyer’s district, however, rejected it.
“That betrayal really affected me,” he said. “I was physically ill. You pour your heart into an issue like that and it’s devastating.”
What? Someone from the Grand Old Party Of Personal Responsibility™ is blaming someone else, for their own bad actions? Well knock me over with a feather!
If this rocket scientist had enjoyed to much wine at my gay wedding, I would have understood his excuse. Too bad that four children were hurt as a result of his alcohol abuse.
Dear Don, I am truely sorry that you can not take responsibility for your own poor choices.