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Gay Marriage Updates By State

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Senator: Boxer
My Congresswoman Judy Chu won by a landslide...she is a huge GLBT supporter.

Closeted Republican Congressman David Dreier won as well. :( He was not on my ballot this year...they must have changed mine to Judy...which is what I asked for. I'm on the border of the two.
 
I've heard three state Senate races in New York are close with the Republicans having slight leads in all three. However, there are several thousand absentee ballots to be counted (and in one of them 19% of precincts are yet to report), which nearly always pushes results to the left. Remember too in the New York State Senate we now have Rivera, a huge gay rights activist who likely will lobby, and the time has passed now for the former President of the Senate to return and lobby (he's a Republican who now supports gay marriage).

As for Iowa, at least the judges were only outed by 54%. It's funny though that two of them were appointed by Brandstad himself. I wonder what Culver will do. If not appoint the same 3, he should at least appoint new ones before leaving.
 
Yah it sucks Republicans gained control. Dayton will likely win though. Hopefully the Marry Me Minnesota court case will pull through.

Some plus sides from California:

-Kamala Harris won for California attorney general, which now means Prop 8 likely will die in court because there is no chance the state can/will appeal it now.

-Andrew Pugno, the author/attorney of Prop. 8 lost his state assembly race. The seat actually has now flipped Democrat as a result.

-In New York, Frank Carlucci won the Rockland State Senate district, cause it to flip Democrat.
 
scream4ever said:
I've heard three state Senate races in New York are close with the Republicans having slight leads in all three. However, there are several thousand absentee ballots to be counted (and in one of them 19% of precincts are yet to report), which nearly always pushes results to the left. Remember too in the New York State Senate we now have Rivera, a huge gay rights activist who likely will lobby, and the time has passed now for the former President of the Senate to return and lobby (he's a Republican who now supports gay marriage).

As for Iowa, at least the judges were only outed by 54%. It's funny though that two of them were appointed by Brandstad himself. I wonder what Culver will do. If not appoint the same 3, he should at least appoint new ones before leaving.
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What were the turnout percentages? I heard some yammerhead on the radio today saying that this proves Iowans are ready for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but if left turnout was poor, that may be barking up a missing tree.
 
Our Upstate turnouts were horrifically low - 50% ish.
I'm not sure about statewide, but I think similar.
 
Sad to say, but come this time next year or the following, Minnesota will have a ban on gay marriage and civil unions enshirned into their constitution,as the Republicians now have a veto proof majority.
Same thing in New Hampshire, the fight to strip us of the rights we've gained there are now veto proof.
I truly feel our country is becoming a theocracy and is on its way to fading away.
 
Ninja108 said:
Sad to say, but come this time next year or the following, Minnesota will have a ban on gay marriage and civil unions enshirned into their constitution,as the Republicians now have a veto proof majority.
Same thing in New Hampshire, the fight to strip us of the rights we've gained there are now veto proof.
I truly feel our country is becoming a theocracy and is on its way to fading away.
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Maybe. Certainly, if the Republicans have their way, the major power in the western hemisphere within a generation will be Brazil.
 
scream4ever said:
Yah it sucks Republicans gained control. Dayton will likely win though. Hopefully the Marry Me Minnesota court case will pull through.

Some plus sides from California:

-Kamala Harris won for California attorney general, which now means Prop 8 likely will die in court because there is no chance the state can/will appeal it now.

-Andrew Pugno, the author/attorney of Prop. 8 lost his state assembly race. The seat actually has now flipped Democrat as a result.

-In New York, Frank Carlucci won the Rockland State Senate district, cause it to flip Democrat.
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I wish this was so but that race is not over and at the moment...cooley is ahead...but there is still 2 million votes to count.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/07/EDB51G8313.DTL
 
^^^Yes but lately many votes have poured in from conservative areas. Read the analysis given by Harris' Camp. and it explains why she will win.
 
metta said:
I wish this was so but that race is not over and at the moment...cooley is ahead...but there is still 2 million votes to count.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/07/EDB51G8313.DTL
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scream4ever said:
^^^Yes but lately many votes have poured in from conservative areas. Read the analysis given by Harris' Camp. and it explains why she will win.
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Half a million ballots to count, and Harris leads:

http://www.huliq.com/10061/ca-race-attorney-general-democrat-kamala-harris-increases-small-lead
 
JockBoy87 said:
Are you assuming the consensus among legal experts on our side is to take the risk?

In any event either side can ask the Supreme Court to hear or compel the circuit court to hear an appeal.
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I think a blank appeal would result in a victory at the Ninth. At the the only way to go forward would be for California to appeal, and then would be the time to decline to do so.

And I don't think the winning side at some stage can appeal, so it would stay there in the Ninth, and a huge portion of the US would become a laboratory for demonstrating that anyone who wishes can get married and there's no harm.


Ideally, at that point I'd want to see gays apply for marriage licenses in various places and be denied, followed by suits seeking to establish that no law 'authorizing' same-sex marriage is necessary.
 
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