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Former Mayor Isaac told the Journal Monitor that she was filling in as the moderator for Renee Shaw of Kentucky Educational TV, who had a conflict with the special casino legislative session.

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The Journal received the following comment from John J. Johnson, Executive Director, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights: “Our state needs civil rights laws whenever society fosters and cultivates historical biases against a vulnerable minority group. Unfortunately, people who are gay or have sexual orientations that are not a part of the mainstream have become prime member examples of such a group. Whether an individual has differences that everyone can agree upon should not be a criterion for protecting him or her from the atrocity of discrimination and its violent acts of hate and prejudice. No person in Kentucky should ever have to suffer from discrimination.” --- John J. Johnson, Executive Director, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights

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Political Commentary: Current Vice Mayor Jim Gray publicly acknowledged that he is gay during his second political campaign. He owns Gray Construction company and has gotten into a "tug of words" developer Dudley Webb over the stalled Centre Pointe project. Many believe Gray has a conflict of interests and is using his position on the City Council as a bully pulpit to harass the Webb brothers' latest Lexington development plans. Gray first ran for Mayor in 2002 (while still in the closet) but came in dead last in a field of four candidates; it was that election which Teresa Ann Isaac won and held the Mayor's office from 2003-2007. She has announced her intention to raise money to run against the man who beat her for a second term, current Mayor Jim Newberry.