It's been a while since I got such a good laugh out of John Aravosis, but his diatribe of the day against Internet consulting firm Convio for daring to take a contract with the Alliance for Marriage.
Of course, I'm sure that John's concern and his threats that any lefty non-profit that dares to work with Convio again will be "savaged" has everything to do with gay rights and nothing to do with the fact that he owns a rival Internet consulting practice that could potentially benefit from Convio losing business -- a fact which is mentioned nowhere on Americablog, and certainly not as a disclaimer in his story.
A note to Convio -- I've already blogged that it is possible to effectively inoculate yourself from the criticisms of the gay left and Aravosis; you merely have to do as did the Kerry campaign and Priceline.com and hire them.
Update: The fun is already beginning as the vultures start to circle, trying to take advantage of and pick at Convio's carcass on the comment thread.
First is "Frank", who advocates a switch to GetActive instead of Convio. I wonder how he feels about GetActive's providing services to the Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy, which applauds the Bush administration and the 2005 Clean Skies Act?
Next up is Ruby Sinreich, who apparently intends to use her position as Online Organizing Manager for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to push people away from Convio. I wonder if she's planning to tell her bosses first, and how they feel about her doing it -- or Planned Parenthood's connection to Convio?
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