Dwight Evans Set To Grab Crucial Gay Vote (Hey, For Once One Of These Headlines Isn’t A Joke)

The Dwight Evans campaign has been on a roll ever since it received the crucial 66 percent endorsement in Metro’s “Today’s Debate” last month. (If Michael Nutter had gotten two-thirds of the vote, I’m sure I would have gotten a press release about it.)

Buoyed by that strong showing, yesterday Evans courted gay and lesbian voters. Evans actually has done his fair share for gays and lesbians; for example, when the state house was attempting to define marriage as just between a man and a woman, Evans was having none of it and campaigned against it.

But that’s not all! Evans is also tonight attempting to capture the also-crucial environmental vote; he’s hosting an online webchat moderated by Alex UA (his last name’s long and I’m lazy) of YoungPhillyPolitics tonight.

Evans isn’t the first mayoral candidate to campaign for the environmentalist vote; however, now that we’re less than three months away from the mayoral primary — aka the actual election — we’re sort of running out of groups that mayoral candidates can attempt to get the vote of. Tomorrow, expect Evans to campaign for the “Catholics who wear funny hats” vote while Bob Brady looks to grab the “Athiests who wear Nikes” endorsement.

Evans courts gay and lesbian voters [Inquirer]