“The only check I ever gave to a Republican president was when was like browbeating me to do so,” she said. “And he came to me and asked for money” for the Bush campaign, Schwartz said in referring to Catania’s 2004 support for Bush before the blowup over the marriage issue. Bush,” she said in referring to her role as a longtime Republican. Bush for his support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage came “five minutes” after Catania had raised large sums of money for Bush’s re-election campaign.
While saying she is better qualified to be mayor than Bowser, Schwartz leveled her strongest criticism against Catania in her interview with the Blade.Īmong other things, she said Catania’s decision to leave the Republican Party in 2004 and denounce then President George W. Schwartz has strongly disputed claims by detractors that she entered the mayoral race this year in retaliation against Catania, who helped orchestrate her defeat in her 2008 re-election bid for the Council. “I immediately went about getting a rule change – a rule addition – to make discrimination against gay and lesbian teachers banned – any discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation.” “It was 40 years ago when I got elected to the board of education,” she said. Council member and mayoral candidate David Catania (I-At-Large), who’s gay, and Council member and mayoral contender Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) as among those whose records on LGBT issues hers surpasses. Schwartz, 70, said in no uncertain terms that she was referring to D.C. “I don’t think anybody, regardless of their own sexual orientation, has a better record than I do in this community,” she told the Washington Blade in an interview last week. school board in the 1970s through her 16 years on the City Council, Schwartz says she has worked as diligently to advance LGBT rights as she has in her role as a champion for all city residents. mayoral candidate Carol Schwartz defies anyone to prove she doesn’t have the longest and strongest record of support for the LGBT community among the current candidates running for mayor.īeginning in her high school days in Midland, Texas, when she befriended gay classmates, to her years on the D.C. She became the first woman president of the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs in its 61-year history.D.C. She has volunteered for people with HIV/AIDS and other marginalized groups, and served for nearly two decades on the Board of the Whitman-Walker Clinic. She ran for Mayor several times in spite of the odds. the second jurisdiction in the country to have it. She also worked for the passage of sick and safe leave for private sector workers, making D.C. Carol advocated good government and sought to end some questionable government practices. She ran for and won a position on the D.C. Carol also helped to create Banneker Academic High School and work for educational reforms. Depression, though, and Jack Daniels ultimately caused David's death when the children were teenagers. Carol describes life with her own family-her three kids and husband David, who suffered from severe depression. And she was also the target of a brilliant but full-of-rage father. Carol was often responsible for caring for her beloved older brother and only sibling Johnny, who was intellectually disabled.
There were only a few Jewish families and some prejudice. Carol talks about growing up on the poor side of the tracks in that small West Texas town, where she worked starting from age eight in the family store. Then a Republican in a city where Democrats made up nearly 80% of voters, she ran for Mayor and nearly beat Marion Barry in 1994 in the closest Mayoral election in the city's history. But Carol began a journey that took her away from the familiar to D.C. After graduating from the University of Texas in 1965, Carol Schwartz, born in Mississippi and raised in Midland, Texas, visited Washington, D.C.
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