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DAILY SHOW CO-CREATOR LIZZ WINSTEAD PERFORMS SEPT 11
Alberta Rose Theatre
THE DAILY SHOW CO-CREATOR
LIZZ WINSTEAD
"MY STATE OF THE UNION"
AN EVENING OF POLITICAL SATIRE
AT ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE
SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2010
PORTLAND, OR | August 12th, 2010- Alberta Rose Theatre will welcome The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead's "My State of the Union." September 11th at 8pm. As Co-Creator and Head Writer of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show", Lizz Winstead has changed the way people get their news and react to politics forever. Next she took her unique satiric voice to the radio waves, co-founding Air America Radio and shared the mic every morning hosting "Unfiltered" with the amazing Rachel Maddow. Now Lizz is touring the country bringing her biting political insights to packed houses from LA to DC, and she will perform at Alberta Rose Theatre on September 11th. Lizz takes on hypocrisy with a brilliant razor sharp wit, hitting all the big guys who chose to abuse their power. From Beck to Bachmann, Healthcare to Hedge funds, no one is exempt from a hilarious jab. If you need a break from the madness of the world and feel like the state of our union is in quite a state, then Lizz Winstead will be the much needed catharsis you are looking for.
Lizz's talents as a comedian and media visionary have been recognized by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly's 100 most Creative People issue and has brought numerous television appearances, including Comedy Central Presents, weekly segments on The Ed Show on MSNBC and The Joy Behar Show on Headline News and is blogging regularly at The Huffington Post. Most recently, Lizz wrote and produced an independent pilot of her Off-Broadway hit, "Wake Up World", a show Rachel Maddow called, "The funniest thing I have seen in years."
Lizz Winstead will perform at Alberta Rose Theatre on Saturday, September 11th at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at albertarosetheatre.com, by calling 503.427.8201, or in person on any show night at the box offi ce at 3000 NE Alberta Street.
LIZZ WILL BE CONDUCTING A RARE WRITING WORKSHOP NOT TO BE MISSED AND SURE TO SELL OUT! "HOW TO CRAFT A JOKE AND USE POLITICAL SATIRE TO BE HEARD" The Portland workshop is scheduled for September 12th from 10am-1pm at Alberta Rose Theatre. Price TBA. Full Story. [9/16/10]
NOM FAILS IN LAWSUIT TO HIDE MAINE ELECTION ACTIVITIES
Federal judge upholds majority of Maine law requiring public transparency of campaign activities; HRC calls on NOM to play by the rules and disclose its anti-LGBT political efforts
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today called on the National Organization for Marriage to stop its radical national strategy of hiding its election activities and eviscerating public disclosure laws, in the wake of today's federal court ruling in Maine upholding the state's campaign finance framework against NOM's challenge.
"Time and again NOM has tried to evade or eviscerate popular disclosure laws that provide the public with critical information about who spends money on campaigns, and as usual they've come up short," said Fred Sainz, the Human Rights Campaign's Vice President of Communications. "It begs the questions: what does NOM want to hide about their efforts to strip millions of Americans of their basic civil rights, and why are they fighting so hard to hide it?"
Today, a federal judge in Portland, Maine ruled against NOM by upholding laws requiring organizations engaged in Maine elections to register as political action committees, disclose their independent expenditures and provide disclaimers on campaign advertisements. The court found two lesser legal provisions defective but noted that they could likely be cured by new legislation.
In rejecting most of NOM's lawsuit, Judge D. Brock Hornby ruled that "Maine… has a compelling reason for compiling information about PACs – the goal of providing information to Maine voters about the interest groups that spend money referring to candidates in an election – and indeed Maine has polling data demonstrating the public's interest in such information." The judge found that "NOM's desire to limit campaign finance disclosures … would yield perverse results, totally at odds with the interest in 'transparency' recognized in Citizens United," the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed for unlimited corporate spending in elections but accepted the government's compelling interest in requiring public disclosure.
NOM's lawsuit is part of escalating tensions between the group and ethics officials in Maine. NOM remains under investigation by the Maine Ethics Commission for failing to register with the state as a ballot question committee and disclose the donors to its campaign to overturn Maine's marriage equality law in 2009. NOM provided more than $1.9 million of the $3 million spent by opponents of marriage equality to pass Question 1 – but it failed to disclose where the money came from. The organization has stonewalled the ethics investigation over its Question 1 involvement, which is the subject of a separate ongoing lawsuit.
Today's decision follows similar defeats in Washington state, where NOM's lawyers fought the state's public records law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court – and lost. A federal court in California similarly rejected NOM's efforts to hide its donors in the wake of Proposition 8.
"NOM's agenda of hiding their political activities from legitimate scrutiny and accountability has gone on long enough," added Sainz. "The public has a right to know who is behind their efforts to take away the fundamental rights of people living in Maine, California, Washington and elsewhere across the country. It's time for NOM to own up and play by rules that serve the public interest."
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
> Full Story. [8/20/10]
MAINE MAN WINS $1 MILLION GAY DISCRIMINATION SUIT
A jury has awarded a Maine man more than $1 million in a discrimination case based on sexual orientation -- the largest such award to date in Maine. > Full Story. [7/16/10]
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