There is such a thing as leadership and moral responsibility – she’s leading on behalf of the larger community of Baltimore children whose schools faced a $15 million cut. That’s not a petty, selfish agenda (and keep in mind in the HoD all 141 delegates rightly have their own agendas sometimes removed from party), it is a stand I and many of her constituents (gay and straight) are proud she made.

And on the issue of trying to vote her out, I would note that in the last three elections she has won the most votes of any city delegate in both the primary and general elections. In the 41st district any primary candidate would have to get past Oaks AND Rosenberg before Carter would even be mildly threatened – and given her broad support I’m confident she would never shirk from a challenge.

“She is a loser already in my book by equating a person’s civil and human rights with a funding bill.”

If we’re talking rights, what of the right of a child to a fully funded school?