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UPDATE: Be on the lookout for signature gatherers Friday & Saturday in the greater Seattle area. This just in from Family Policy Institute of Washington:
If you are interested in gathering signatures this afternoon, tonight or tomorrow morning in the Seattle area, please e-mail…
My reading of the 1st Amendment is that it is my right to tell interested petition signers why I think they shouldn’t sign.
UPDATE 2: Gary Randall just sent this email
We are receiving a number of emails asking where individuals can sign a petition… You may do so at the Capitol steps tomorrow at 2 PM
I can’t help myself: HAHAHAHA!
Team Homophobia has a 2 PM appointment Saturday, July 25th with the Washington Secretary of State to turn in their anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71 signatures. But guess what? They don’t have enough. Gary Randall states:Friday, July 24, 2009
R-71: Too Close to Call
We feel that by tomorrow morning we will have the 120,577 signatures required, however we also know that some will be invalidated for various reasons. We do not have an adequate cushion of signatures.We will be turning in the signatures tomorrow at 2 PM.
Gary is so desperate that he’s throwing this Hail Mary pass:
We are then asking you or someone you know, to drive the additional signatures to Olympia tomorrow…
I know the situation must truly be dire, because Gary forgot to ask for donations!Join Washington Families Standing Together in their fight to defeat Referendum 71 by clicking on the graphics below.
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Good newsNow that is truly “the good news”!
Good luck Washington
Thank you Kalifornia
What if…I realize this is a moot point with regards to Ref 71, but what if, in the future when similar referendums are up for petition, LGBT folk were to set up tables in public places, obtain signatures, and never turn in the petitions.
When confronted by legit petition solicitors, people would reply, in all good faith, “I’ve already signed”. Thus denying the creeps the necessary signatures to get their referendum on the ballot.
i’m not a lawyer, butthat sounds like fraud and is just as bad as a signature gatherer telling you that what your signing is pro-marriage equality when it isn’t. let’s leave the fraud to the bigots.
This is an interesting ideaand one that I think others have considered. I was approached by someone asking for my signature on a petition. When I went to sign it, I read the entire thing and discovered that the position was the exact opposite of what the petitioner had just explained to me and he was getting quite a few people to sign it without even glancing at what they were signing.
I’m not advocating anything illegaljust stating that I think that it’s been done before, in a variety of ways.
Please keep us updated LurleenThanks!
That’s an interesting ideaBut it would really be stooping to their level wouldn’t it? We shouldn’t use the same kind of games and dishonesty that the bigots are using.
Anyone, good luck Washington. I personally don’t think this referendum will work…Thankfully. Even in the case that it somehow does work, I think that more likely than not it won’t fly at the polls. I mean even a lot of fundies seem to realize that too.
Can we trust these status updates?There seems to be a regular practice of lying about the status of signature gathering. I find it hard to believe that they were at 75,000 just over a week ago but are now topping out at 120,000+, especially since the initial 75K would have come from there easy targets of churches and existing voter lists. They obviously lie, so why should we be so confident that they are really at 120K? They may well be underplaying their status so as to create a “miraculous” success tomorrow.
no way to know.i doubt they would make themselves look so pathetic if they didn’t have to. if they had the signatures, they would be crowing about it i think. then again, i don’t think like they do, so who knows.