Maine Marriage Equality Loses To The People’s Vote.
With about 87% of the precincts reporting, the “Yes on 1″ crowd voting to repeal marriage equality won by 53% of the vote, with about 50% of the electorate of Maine coming out to vote.
Oddly, they expanded the use of medical marijuana, but at the same time, shot down higher taxes. We suggest doing a two-fer: legalize cannabis and tax it.
Incidentally, Bob McDonnell is not the governor-elect of Virginia, and Mr. Chris Christie is now the governor-elect of New Jersey.
Enjoy it while you can, Mr. President, as 2010 places the majority (filibuster-proof) we have in the House at stake, a third of the Senate, and 37 other governor’s mansions are up for grabs. If you are going to implement change, our advice is not to wait…
Let’s see, that’s two states (CA & ME) where the voters’ closed minds repealed equality. We see it harder for the President to take a political gamble on our side for much longer. Indeed, we now see the Supreme Court shying away from hearing this, if at all - perhaps throwing the issue back to the individual states.
Keep on trudging troops, we have a long way to go…
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