Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay / lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council.

He began building up a support base amongst these newly-empowered citizens: " he wooed the poor ; and they, not used to being courted, duly loved him back.

Johnson proceeded to gain Russell's favor in the same way that he had " courted " Speaker Sam Rayburn and gained his crucial support in the House.

In September 2006, Tim Hortons courted controversy by mandating that employees were not to wear red as part of the Red Fridays campaign by families of the military to show support for Canadian troops.

He was courted to run for leader again in 1984 but opted to support John Turner, the eventual winner.

In particular, the iconoclast emperor Constantine V ( r. 741 – 775 ) courted the factions for their support in his campaigns against the monks.

There has been much scholarly debate over the dating of the charters he received from Stephen and Matilda ; depending on the order and timing of those documents, Geoffrey appears to have either been playing off one against the other to get what he wanted or was courted by the rival claimants to the throne for his support.

Throughout its reign, the party's support came mainly from Afrikaners, but Anglo-Africans were courted by and increasingly voted for the National Party after 1960.

As the community has grown in numbers, its electoral support has been assiduously courted by Alun Michael.

Badeni courted controversy when, in an attempt to gain the support of the Young Czech faction in the Reichsrat, he addressed the language issue in Bohemia.

Following his 1997 Election to the House of Commons, he courted controversy in 2001 by offering support for John Townend over his controversial remarks about race ; he later apologised for any offence caused by offering this support.

The Sultan voiced public support for PKMJ during a public gathering in mid-December 1955, and PKMJ courted considerable support from the grassroots within the first half of 1956.

He claimed that Houston had ambitions for a presidential nomination and courted the support of Northern abolitionists.

After his defeat in the Azores, António went into exile in France — traditional enemy of the Habsburgs — and courted the support of England.

AMERICAblog has courted controversy within the gay community for its support of ' outing ' gay Republican Party workers who are seen as supporting anti-gay legislation and attempts to prevent same-sex marriage in particular.

Alex wakes up in hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt.

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

* Miss Topsy Turvey: neighbouring headmistress, courted by Smart-Allick.

On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.

Polonius is Claudius's trusted chief counsellor ; Polonius's son, Laertes, is returning to France, and Polonius's daughter, Ophelia, is courted by Hamlet.

Botham often courted controversy and was suspended briefly in 1986 for smoking cannabis and was allegedly accused of racism and ball tampering by Imran Khan.

In full affluence of foreign and domestick Fame, admired by the expert in art, and by the learned in Science, courted by the great, caressed by Sovereign powers, and celebrated by distinguished Poets, his Native humility, modesty and Candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation, nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye, in any part of his Conduct or discourse.

Mary was courted by Duke Philip of Bavaria from late 1539, but Philip was Lutheran and his suit for her hand was unsuccessful.

The film courted controversy by including a nude wedding-night scene while Olivia Hussey was only fifteen.

Sophia was courted by her first cousin, Charles II Stuart, but she rebuffed his advances as she thought he was using her in order to get money from her mother's supporter, Lord William Craven.

The appointment had been secured by the family of Anne Boleyn, who was being courted by Henry.

This proved disastrous in terms of the band's career, in particular as the band were being actively courted by Seymour Stein who thought they could become massive stars in the USA.

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis ( or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others ) that her son would become greater than his father.

During this time, Anne was courted by Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, and entered into a secret betrothal with the young man.

Powerful railroad interests were courted by the party in the wake of Supreme Court decisions that had been adverse to their interests.

Mexican-American War General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, an attractive candidate because of his successes on the battlefield, but who had never voted in an election himself, was openly courted by both the Democratic and Whig parties.

Augustus successfully courted the plebs, supported their patron deities and began the restoration of the Aventine Triad's temple ; it was re-dedicated by his successor, Tiberius.

Although Rome at first rejoiced at the demise of Sejanus, the city quickly plunged into more extensive trials, as Tiberius relentlessly persecuted all those who could in any way be tied to the schemes of Sejanus or had courted his friendship.

This revolt was quickly put down and the Tanukh-Roman alliance ended for good, as Rome courted another Arab tribe, the Salih.

Other rumours claimed she was courted by Lord Mulgrave ( later made Duke of Buckingham ), although he denied it.

In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, " Le Grand Jeu " with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.

Of course, once Herrmann felt he had been wronged, he was not going to say ' yes ' to Hitchcock unless he was courted and it seems unlikely that Hitchcock would be willing to do that, although apparently Hitchcock did ask Herrmann back to score his last film Family Plot right before Herrmann died.

Locke is a slightly more ambiguous case than Hobbes because although his conception of liberty was largely negative ( in terms of non-interference ), he differed in that he courted the " republican " ( classical ) tradition of liberty by rejecting the notion that an individual could be free if he was under the arbitrary power of another:

The WNP under Morrison and John G. Wood courted John Tyndall, although he refused to join as he did not feel that divisions were helpful.

Aganippus, the king of the Franks, courted Cordelia and married her, although Leir refused her a dowry.

It is claimed that although a physically unremarkable man, Quandt courted Magda at school by posing as a family friend and swept her off her feet with courtesy and grand gestures.

Their relationship becomes awkward, especially after Anne meets and is courted by fellow Redmond student Roy Gardner, a man who at first seems to personify her " ideal ", although Anne secretly admits to herself that Roy lacks certain qualities and that she and Roy do not share a mutual sense of humour.

This distinctive persona led him to be the most popular Gladiator in the history of the show, although he courted controversy.