Carl Friedrich Schmid was a Baltic German chess player.
Born in Mitau, Russian Empire, he tied for 15-16th at Wiesbaden 1880, and took 16th in the Berlin 1881 chess tournament.
Looking around the room, I saw the leaders of the pro-life movement on the platform committee. The leaders of the pro-life groups are very conservative -- and they are very conservative on gay issues, too.
Governor Thompson, he made it a point to strike this anti-gay language from the draft platform, and he obviously did that with the full knowledge of the Bush campaign.
Gov. Bush believes and supports the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, which means gay people can be in the military, they just can't be open about their sexuality. It's clear that Governor Bush is disappointed with the way some of the platform votes went.
Bush gets it. He's open to gays and lesbians, and his vision is the most important thing. We are not electing the platform to be our next president. George W. Bush is going to be the one making the decisions, and implementing what he believes.
