By Bob Geary
The Independent Weekly

Jim Neal doesn’t like being called a “cause” candidate. Not if the cause is that he happens to be gay. He’d rather be seen, in his U.S. Senate campaign, as a man with “real-world experience” who’s ready to tackle the nation’s biggest military and domestic problems.

However, the way the Democratic Party establishment has dissed the 51-year-old Chapel Hill investment banker’s candidacy since he announced his intentions to run four weeks ago has made him into a cause for many progressives and gay-rights activists.

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