Ed Murray, such a man of the people (except when he's not).

Did that 2 nights ago. The tide has turned, but the attempts to thwart equality will linger, until they find some new and different agenda to fight. Some people seem to need to feel they are under attack to think that they are living. Anyway...I look forward and with hope that we'll soon be the slowpokes next door trying to catch up. :-)

Ed is of course right. It's great that we actually found a couple of republicans to support the bill, but we're not there yet. If we lose by only one vote, we still lose. Unless we can solidify a couple of wavering democrats, or find another couple of moderate republicans, this bill goes nowhere.

Now is the time we really, really need to exert any leverage we can on the few fence-sitters in the senate. You can bet the right wingers will be trying to sway them the other way.

Damn do-nothing Dems. They wasted their super-majority. Don't the fence-sitters know that campaign contributions for legislators voting *for* equality in New York went way up? Where's their self-interest? If they are already vulnerable this vote will not be the deciding factor, they aren't getting the right vote anyway.
Contribution made, hope it helps.

I wish I had more money to devote to things like this. There are so many political campaigns coming up in 2012 that need attention -- this one, Maine's efforts to put legalizing same-sex marriage on the ballot, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin's U.S. Senate races, and more. Sadly, I'm squeaking by at the end of each pay cycle so there isn't that much leeway.

Does that organization accept donations from out of staters? Some of us in SF would like to help. Oh and whatever you do, dont hire the ex head of EQCA. He ran a pretty bad campaign against prop 8.

He ran an embarrassingly shit campaign against pop 8. EQCA also had professional homophone Troup Coronado on their board of directors, which can't possible have helped. Learn from their mistakes, they are legion.

The problem with EQCA's No on 8 campaign is that we didn't go on the offense enough. We here in California were hit with ad after ad about how gay marriage would be taught in schools (TO CHILDREN!)) The response from No on 8 was limply defensive that, no, that outrageous charge wouldn't happen. The tack should be similar to the one the Prop 8 trial lawyers are taking now, which is "SO WHAT?" "This is not the issue!" Hopefully the trial ends soon and ends positively, so that an example can be set, and Washington will never have to go through what we did.