cessary majority vote for an outright victory in the April primary election. As expected, none did and the two leaders, Goldberg and Tom LaBonge, were forced into the runoff election in June, which Goldberg narrowly won.
As would be expected, Goldberg came out early in the campaign as a strong advocate of gay rights, although she was initially criticized for not openly campaigning as a lesbian. In fact, many within the political circles of the gay community refused to publicly back her, throwing their support instead to the two other openly gay candidates during the primary campaign. When neither of these candidates made it two the runoff election, most of the gay political community placed their support with Goldberg; one of the losing gay candidates, Michael Weinstein, refused to support Goldberg, arguing that she was not qualified for the position, nor was she open enough about her homosexuality. Consequently, Goldberg had to campaign more openly as a lesbian and make her stands concerning gay issues stronger, in order to secure more of the substantial gay political vote in the 13th District. First, she said that she would advocate legislation
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