{"id":421,"date":"2006-11-08T08:14:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/421"},"modified":"2006-11-08T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T13:20:59","slug":"better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/421","title":{"rendered":"Better…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, the election results I’ve seen look pretty good.  I say "so far" because it isn’t done until the new folks actually take office.  Joshua Marshall reminds us after all, who we’re dealing with on the other side<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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But get on this. It looks like Virginia will decide the senate. Karl Rove has turned races like this around before. You don’t know the lengths they’ll go to. Believe me, you’re not being imaginative enough.<\/p>\n

Check out Josh Green’s article<\/a> on Karl Rove from two years ago. Look what Rove pulled off in the disputed Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice race. Read it.<\/p>\n

Get ready for the bogus headlines on Drudge. The rumors and innuendo. Live boys and dead girls. Like I said, your imagination will only get you maybe half the way there. Get ready.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right.  We’re still in a knife fight for the future of the American Dream.  But it’s hard not to feel a great satisfaction upon seeing images like this from last night…<\/p>\n

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Hello?  Dubya?  Dubya?  Hello…? <\/em><\/p>\n

Yes…a bunch more states passed amendments stripping same sex couples of any and all legal rights.  But one state, Arizona, didn’t, and even though that’s only one state, it puts a knife in the homophobe’s argument that every time same sex marriage comes up to a vote it looses.  Last night Arizona defeated one at the polls.  And what is more, it was done without the help of our worthless national gay rights organizations<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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With 94 percent of the vote reporting, it looks like Arizona’s Prop. 107, the gay marriage ban will go down — 51.6 percent against it, 48.4 percent for it. Of particular interest is Maricopa county (home of Phoenix) which went against the ban. Pima county, home of liberal Tucson, played a big part in the victory — defeating the amendment by large margins.<\/p>\n

Cindy Jordan, chair of No on 107, credits the victory (if it occurs, knock on wood) to grassroots efforts.The big national gay organizations have been notably absent there, and the campaigns have been smart about attracting voters from both conservative Phoenix and liberal Tucson with targeted messages and tactics. "We did this with no national help," says Jordan, "this grassroot’s effort was local."<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine)  This is exactly why I don’t give money to those jackasses.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, voters passed an anti same sex marriage amendment by about 80 percent, which I know is going to cause a lot of pain to some very good people, and friends of mine down there.  But according to reports I’ve seen it was done with only about 20 percent of the voters actually voting on it.  I wonder what was going on in the minds of the people who voted, yet decided not to vote on that issue.  I doubt it was because they didn’t think they knew enough about the issue to cast a vote on it.  You’d have to be living in a cave not to have heard the issue being discussed, and you know damn well that practically every vein throbbing pulpit thumper down there was exhorting his flock to go to the polls and smite the homosexual devils.  But only a small fraction of those who voted, voted on the issue one way or the other, if the stories I’m hearing are true.<\/p>\n

Divided loyalties?  I can’t vote against the baby Jesus, but I can’t vote against my son…daughter… brother…sister… aunt…uncle… co-worker…neighbors…?  Tired of all the hate…but unwilling yet to take a stand against it?<\/p>\n

I’m glad to see the South Daktoa seems to have repealed it’s horrible anti-abortion law.  At Daily KOS, they’re saying that with 86% of precincts reporting, Referendum 6, the abortion ban was at 45% Yes; 55% No.  The same sex marriage and civil unions ban was  52% Yes; 48% No.  Almost exactly the inverse.  The worst hypocrites of the night were those voters in South Dakota, who voted against the abortion ban and voted against giving same sex couples any legal rights too.<\/p>\n

Full Text of Constitutional Amendment C:<\/p>\n

Section 2. That Article XXI of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:<\/p>\n

9. Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in South Dakota. The uniting of two or more persons in a civil union, domestic partnership, or other quasi-marital relationship shall not be valid or recognized in South Dakota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Democracy means liberty and justice for me…not for thee… <\/em><\/p>\n

You have to worry that with so much corruption, so much fiscal debt, and the dawning realization now, even in the red zones, that Iraq is an unmitigated disaster, that so many of these races were so close.  But any election night that costs so many gutter crawling bigots their seats, like Maryland’s own jackass governor Ehrlich and his bigot pal Steele, is still a pretty good one.<\/p>\n

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Gay Marylanders won’t have to beg you any more for a shred of common human decency Bob.  Fuck off. <\/p>\n

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