Gary Randall's blog posts are always a walk on the wild side, but today's is a particular hoot.We are particularly concerned about the several thousand [petition signers] deemed "not registered" voters and the 501 signatures they say don't match the signature on file.Yeah, I'd have expected much better quality from Gary's paid signature mercenaries. ->eye roll<- Have you forgotten your hired gun already, Gary, they guy who baldfaced lied to gullible voters? Just your style, wasn't he? I bet he did a bang-up job making sure that everyone who signed his sheet (a.k.a. signed his paycheck) was a registered Washington voter. By the way, neither your PAC nor Larry Stickney's has admitted paying for the mercenaries or receiving their services as in-kind assistance from another entity. Don't for a moment think that we haven't noticed.
Here's a video of Gary earnestly discussing the matter.
Gary also whines that he's being described as "anti-gay" in a press report. He says
I know there are those in the Seattle press who understand that at the heart of the matter, we are not "anti-gay rights," but are pro-traditional or natural marriage....I, nor most of the tens of thousands of people who are standing for and actively defending marriage, are "anti-gay rights." We are pro-marriage.The PI got it right. When "pro-marriage" equals attacking the legal and financial stability of over 5,800 Washington families only because many of them are gay, then by your own definition you are anti-gay. Ownp;Own it, Gary. But this is my favorite part because it is an outright lie that is proven by Gary's own words and actions:
It was only when homosexual activists began to demand that marriage be deconstructed and family be redefined, that we became active.ROTFL! Oregon Gary was instrumental in the effort to repeal the LGBT anti-discrimination law in 2006, a full year before the measly initial form of domestic partnerships was instituted in Washington. Remember R-65, Gary, and your ignominious three-way with Tim Eyman and Pastor Joe Fuiten? How
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Referendum 71 voters will be asked to approve or reject the domestic partnership law.
REFERENDUM 71
Ballot Title
Statement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].Concise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.
Should this bill be:
Approved ___
Rejected ___Ballot Measure Summary
Same-sex couples, or any couple that includes one person age sixty-two or older, may re gister as a domestic partnership with the state. Registered domestic partnerships are not marriages, and marriage is prohibited except between one man and one woman. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of registered domestic partners and their families to include all rights, responsibilities, and obligations granted by or imposed by state law on married couples and their families.
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In a very light-hearted and very brief interview (just over 2 minutes long), Associate Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell and I discuss why she's at NetRoots Nation (her blogging at The Nation, her partner James Perry running for mayor of New Orleans, etc), as well as her thoughts are about Lane Hudson shouting a question to President Clinton at NetRoots Nation. Professor Harris-Lacewell also talks briefly about the importance of the netroots on reporting on news, as well as how the netroots can create news for main stream media.
And hey, in the interview I found out that both the good professor and I have two kats! How kewl is that?
Off camera, she and I discussed about how the African-American experience has many overlaps with trans experience ("passing" as white/"passing" as one's target sex; African-American "good hair"/trans "good hair"; how "articulate" is often a sideways compliment for African-Americans and trans people, etc.) , and said someone should write a book about that. I told her that I was actually talking to Pam (trying to convince Pam!) about how she and I should be writing a book of essays -- essays that include the similarities and differences between African-American experience and trans experience. I found it surprising that an academic of Prof. Harris-Lacewell's caliber actually was the one who brought up in our conversation that the comparison between African-American experience and trans experience might be the subject of an interesting book as I'd brought that up as a subject with Pam about two months ago. I'm actually curious now if Pam and I could actually sell the book of ess ay ideas we've been talking about -- apparently Prof. Harris-Lacewell would at least be interested in reading the section of the essay book comparing African-American and trans experience.
Later today I'll have the separate interview up with her partner James Perry, where he discusses his run for mayor of New Orleans (another short interview).
The former Vermont governor was asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" about President Barack Obama's statement over the weekend that the public option for insurance coverage was "just a sliver" of the overall proposal. Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, advanced that line, telling CNN Sunday that a direct government role in a system intended to provide virtually universal coverage was "not the essential element."And the President, at a Colorado town hall, also got slippery on commitment (sound familiar?), alerting that he's ready to toss a public option overboard in order to get a deal done.Dean, a physician, argued that a public option is fair and said there must be such a choice in any genuine shake up of the existing system.
"You can't really do health reform without it," he said. Dean maintained that the health insurance industry has "put enormous pressure on patients and doctors" in recent years.
He called a direct government role "the entirety of health care reform. It isn't the entirety of insurance reform ... We shouldn't spend $60 billion a year subsidizing the insurance industry."
"All I'm saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform," Obama said at a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo. "This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."
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