Anonymous: We Spotted Very Anti-Gay Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) At DC Gay Bar

The above Anonymous Twitter account with 1.3 million followers claims to have spotted Tea Party hero and US Senate candidate Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) in the crowd at the popular DC gay bar JR's. I've looked at the photos of Cotton that come up on Google Image and just can't tell from the shot posted to Foursquare. According to Wikipedia, Cotton married a woman early this year and is expecting his first child in the spring.

Earlier this week an NRA endorsement of Cotton appeared on Grindr, but the NRA claims that the ad is fake, so perhaps this Anonymous claim is part of some bizarre campaign to malign Cotton, who has all of the usual far-right Tea Party positions and strongly opposes same-sex marriage. He is considered likely to unseat Sen. Mark Pryor and currently leads in the polls by seven points. (Tipped by JMG reader Brandon)

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) To Back ENDA

A spokesman for Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) has announced his plan to vote for ENDA, leaving only one Democratic holdout in the chamber. Via the Arkansas Times:

Pryor, with West Virginia's Joe Manchin, was one of only two Democrats who had not said they would vote for the legislation, which has had a long and difficult history in Congress. It was approved in the House in 2007 but stymied by Senate filibusters. Gay rights groups think they now have enough Democrat and Republican votes to beat a Senate filibuster and Sen. Harry Reid announced this week that he intended to bring the measure to a vote. Passage in the Republican controlled House remains unlikely.

That brings us to 58 of the 60 votes necessary to stymie any filibuster. (Tipped by JMG reader Brandon)