down to th’ wire in Maine
October 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized
Marriage equality is up for grabs in Maine’s election on Tuesday. Anyone from anywhere can help make phone calls this weekend, if you have a couple free hours.
You can also donate here to No On 1: Protect Maine Equality, and see a short, sweet, moving tv ad of a Catholic mom talking about her gay son’s family.
10 Responses to “down to th’ wire in Maine”
Thanks for keeping us up to date on big events in upper New England!
They used to say “As goes Maine, so goes the nation.” Then it was “As goes Maine, so goes Vermont.” Let’s hope it’s now “As goes Vermont, so goes Maine.”
And let’s also hope that “so goes Vermont” so goes Washington state. If voters don’t pass Referendum 71, rights for gay and lesbian families will disappear.
http://approvereferendum71.org/
Good luck to you!
Keeping my fingers crossed in all those races…
Ignoring Virginia Hillbilly and moving on…
Well, so much for that fight. I’m curious, is anyone else down with the notion that we should crumple the HRC into a metaphorical ball and toss it into the metaphorical garbage? At this point, it seems to me that they are utterly incapable of doing this right.
Mishyana….um, yeah kinda. I think (I don’t remember where I read this) that they’re not planning on attempting another vote here in California till 2012. And yet you see volunteers on the sidewalk pretty regularly asking for money to “continue the fight” or some such….
Damn it, the forces of darkness have triumphed, and by a tiny margin too.
No marriage in Maine.
What puzzles me is how a representative legislature can have the vision to pass a human rights measure approving gay marriage and then the people they represent can shoot it down. I”m sure the forces of darkness are out there spreading their exclusive views on who is human. I still feel lucky that no one has put the rights of women to a popular vote.
Oh, I’m sure some would if they thought there was even the slightest chance of getting away with it.
What Mishyana said about tossing away HRC is right on. It is a white boys’ club more concerned with how many Washington parties it gets invited to–and which fancy names it can get to attend its own–than creating any real change. Those donations you are asked for on the street just go to pay Joe Solomonese’s 340k salary. And because they have more effective fundraising capacity than local organizations which might actually be able to launch effective strategies, they do much more harm than good.