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I'm not the only one that thinks The Phoenix City
Councilman Michael Nowakowski is a double talking hypocrite.
Joanna Allhands also seems to think that.
Allhands: What Michael Nowakowski's LGBT comments say about us Joanna Allhands, The Republic | azcentral.com 9:19 a.m. MST March 11, 2016 You see the irony in the uproar over Michael Nowakowski, don't you? The Phoenix City Councilman has been at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal for months. There are allegations that Nowakowski unduly intervened in a lucrative city land sale -- one that directly affects the public purse and his duties as a councilman. (Nowakowski denies those allegations, by the way, even if his assistant received talking points from a guy intimately involved in the deal.) But no one has been calling for his head over that. Then Nowakowski makes a few offensive comments about same-same marriage and transgender bathroom use, and suddenly, everyone wants him out. A powerful LGBT group called a press conference asking him to resign. The mayor and other officials issued statements denouncing what Nowakowski said, and an influential union said it will never endorse him again. Why is that? Are we really so much more offended by what Nowakowski said than what he is accused of doing? Yes. That's exactly it. Nowakowski had previously defended LGBT rights -- in public, at least. So when he tells a group of pastors, "I never thought I would see the day that men and men would be married," we start to question everything else he says. Was he really for those things? Or just saying stuff to get elected? It stings of being two-faced, and there's nothing that rankles us more than a two-faced politician.
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