Washington’s Secretary of State today said a referendum requiring voter approval of the ‘everything but marriage law’ has enough signatures to make the fall ballot, the Seattle Times reports:
After a month of counting petition signatures, the secretary of state’s office said that Referendum 71 had 121,617 valid signatures — nearly a thousand more than needed to advance to the general election.
Meanwhile, opponents of R-71 were in court Monday asking a King County judge to at least temporarily block the referendum from the ballot, arguing that election officials have accepted thousands of invalid signatures.
According to the Times there is still a slim chance a court case questioning the process by which signatures are accepted and rejected in the referendum qualification process keeps R-71 off the ballot. That case should be decided on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Publicola is reporting on where Seattle candidates stand on the issue.
Go to the campaign site and print a poster, post it. Send the first of many checks, amount, you do that, they take big and small.
AND, endorse as individuals and orgs. You belong to an org, demand, NOW they endorse Approve Ref 71. Non profits can endorse, and there are no limits on donations, this is an issue campaign. A great deal is at stake here for your friends and neighbors. We can beat the bigots but only if Mobilization Seattle kicks in, now and to the election….so…
Fucking MOBILIZE!!!!
(Justin, has C H S formerly endorsed?, if so, I will buy you dinner, seriously – next, help me sponsor a big fundraiser on the Hill, there will be the need for a million dollar media fund. Remember this is state wide.
NOTE – the official meeting of the R. party in Washington met this weekend and endorsed the bigots!!! These people have no shame. Amazing, just amazing. How can people move back to medieval times and not forward to a more enlightened future? Beats me.
Remember – Mobilize for Ref. 71 – GLBT folks are voting to Approve 71, ie, KEEP the present law.
XOXOXOXOX Comrade Curls
We really need your help NOW to preserve the domestic partnership law! Please DONATE to Washington Families Standing Together (WAFST.org) or sign up to volunteer. Ref. 71 will ask voters to reject or accept the domestic partnership law, so tell everyone you know to vote “APPROVED” on Ref. 71.
> “has C H S formerly endorsed?”
“Formerly” endorsed as in they endorsed but have since withdrawn that endorsement?
> “there are no limits on donations, this is an issue campaign”
The limit is 20% of annual expenditures, per 26USC/4911.
I think the new wording is – Approve Ref 71, KEEP the Dom. Partnership Law …
KEEP is simple, direct, sure meaning and easy off the tongue, and common speak ….
Thanks for all the good work, as you can tell I am very angry tonight… fighting angry, working angry, fund raising to the max angry.
Lurleen, any events planned? I write bigger checks after the third drink with many hot bare chested men around .. let us know about events.
Signed – I am APPROVING REF 71, SO SHOULD YOU
Glad you are checking facts, are you endorsing and sending money?
Yes, non profits can only donate a percent of their gross cash flow, BUT, fact, there is NO limit, nada, to what an individual can donate since it is not a candidate but an issues campaign.
Many non profits cop out in cases like this. To their credit the Pride Foundation, GSBA Seattle C., and many other big and small GLBT non profits are in for the win. Way to go.
The Sierra Club has no plans to endorse, so I was told, since it is not in their mission statement. That is disturbing, and a total cop out. I love trees and civil rights and don’t think either is exclusive to the good life here on mother earth.
> Glad you are checking facts, are you endorsing
> and sending money?
In the arena of public policy, my funds are tied-up trying to stand-up to the insidious tentacles of the Seattle Public Library. I can brook no distraction nor countenance any discomfiture that might belay that singular goal.
L-Dawg, I just went to your website. It’s nicely designed, but I have a query:
Who is the super-creepy guy on the front page? You know who: the lecherous looking fellow in the cardigan with the blood-shot eyes. As soon as the page loaded I physically took two steps back from my monitor and said “ahh”, as I was so weirded out. He looks like he just wandered into the picture sans invitation. I’m fairly skilled at Photoshop so LMK if you need help cropping him out.
Also, and this isn’t a complaint but, rather, an observation – the kid in the black shirt looks like a spritely and rambunctious young fellow. If this were a school levy I’d probably vote ‘no’ if I saw him on the pro-levy website. No one likes a hyperactive child. The mother looks like she has absolutely zero control over him either. People like them are the reason I don’t go to Northgate Mall.
Dear Zan,
Trying to tie up the tentacles of the Library System is, it seems to me, a lifelong pursuit. For just ten weeks your help is needed in an additional noble direct action political foray, kicking bigot ass.
Please, I implore and entreat you, join out heartfelt effort. Please. I suggest the Library System will still need your vigilance and citizen audit long after this ballot fight ends.
As I know well, I still owe fines from middle school, and do quake that a list is in the drawer with my name under, “strictly not allowed to check out books or other material under any conditions”.
Best in all your efforts. Mike
We’re here to help share information and report the news. Would love to support any Cap Hill effort with ads on the site and awareness in the posts. But I’m the wrong guy to be organizing anything right now beyond my coverage plan for the next 24 hours and an ad sales effort to make sure we survive another 3 months.
What an odd post to be writing comments where you judge people by how they look.
…netroots it. Blog comments, tweets, facebook walls, e-mail your family in Wenatchee or Colville. Tell them all to APPROVE R-71.
>direct action political foray, kicking bigot ass
This is part of the reason I will be restricting my civic involvement this November to the anti-library effort. I am concerned about the use of the verbiage of political violence in civic debate; it seems to be too easily embraced as of late.
I understand the use of the words “kicking bigot ass” may be colloquial, I am – frankly – more concerned by the use of the words “direct action” which is a coded phrase, even though it may have been unintentionally used in this instance. I would hope that concept of activism had died with Josef Bachmann, Horst Mahler and Joëlle Aubron, but it seems otherwise.
Zan,
1. Silly use of bold image, metaphor only. I must admit I like the word ass…. and use it often.
2. Direct action getting people to vote … mostly indirect and little real action, more persistent gentle persuasion.
Curls