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The Washington Secretary of State’s final vote count report for the week continues to validate the conclusion that all of Washington state is moving towards equality. Tonight’s numbers of 52.6% to 47.4% are not final, as vote counting is still underway. However, even the Secretary of State seems pretty sure about R-71 since their Friday afternoon blog post was titled “R-71: Effective 12-3-09“!
King [County]‘s approval rate has been running 68 percent, and a number of the ballots remaining to be counted are from that county. … If the vote holds, Senate Bill 5688 will go into effect Dec. 3. The election returns will be certified by Secretary of State Sam Reed and Gov. Chris Gregoire, probably on Dec. 1, but under provisions of the Constitution, a bill referred to voters and approved takes effect 30 days after Election Day, or Dec. 3 in this case.
After failing to pray in a victory, campaign manager for Protect Marriage Washington Larry Stickney was expected to concede defeat earlier today. Stickney has failed in his effort to undermine families and disadvantage children through the repeal of Washington’s Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009.
Larry Stickney…told LifeSiteNews.com that they plan to wait it out for the rest of [Friday] afternoon (pacific time) to make fully certain of the result and then “probably at that point concede.”
No word yet that Stickney has transmitted his concession message to the press. He very well may choose to not communicate with them at all. He locked the media out of the Reject election night party, even the local Everett Herald. ”It’s a little lonely in the media room at the Holiday Inn in Everett…”, reported Janet Tu of The Seattle Times.
The Washington State Republican Party endorsed Stickney’s anti-family campaign, a move even their major candidate this election, Susan Hutchison distanced herself from and that they themselves never apparently backed with any vigor. No reaction from them yet either.
As for Gary Randall, it’s same ole’ same ole’
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Oh but this is the best partof Randall’s non-concession post on Faith and Freedom Network site:
Sucede & Lincoln?Anyone see the irony there? We need to keep these people around (but without any power) just for the comedy.
Succeed? Let themThey can call it Texas Northwest.
Maybeeach county in Eastern and Central Washington can succeed in succession at seceding in secession.
I used to thinkthat only places like Texas or Alaska were so bad, but when I hear things like this about places I thought were better like Washington, or when I see vote results in places like CA & ME, it makes me wonder… is there a single state in the US where you can be an open as you want in any city or town or community in the state without getting somewhere between a funny look to being assaulted?
ROFL
The Stranger did an interesting article on thisCheck out http://www.urbanarchipelago.com
The trend is pretty much the same through every state- the urban centers, islands of blue amidst a sea of red, supporting things progressive and tolerant. Everywhere else? Not so much.
This is not to say that the red counties or states do not have their sane members- far from it. They are, unfortunately, stained red. Even one more voice above the margin and it’s doomed that way. Several counties in Washington were hundreds or maybe just a thousand people behind the intolerant. Sad? Yes, but we’re not necessarily alone.
Interesting LinkIt looks like that holds true almost everywhere, except there are a few solidly red states, and a couple of solidly blue states in every county – the only two I could find where MA & CT.
I guess my question then is, is it true for either MA or CT that in any city or town or community you can be as open as you want without getting somewhere between a funny look to being assaulted?
SuccessionIt’d be really strange to see Washington succeeding. It’d just feel weird crossing the borders.
MA and CT are pretty thoroughly urbanizedYou simply don’t have the vast stretches of poverty and ignorance that you find further west.
I would vote in favor of that initiativeEastern Washington is a huge drain on the state economy: what they bring into state revenues from agriculture is more than lost because of the state’s cost to educate, build roads, etc. Let ‘em go and I won’t mind if the door slams them on the ass on their way out.
ROFLMAO
successfully succinct!
The most interesting thing in Gary Randall’s postHe says:
“We are making plans to help elect new law makers who will support those beliefs that are important to people of faith and social conservatives. There are some vulnerable seats and we will be targeting them in the future.
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All donations to our educational outreach are tax deductible. ”
Tax exempt organizations are not permitted to campaign for or against candidates. Maybe someone at WAFST should ring the WA Dept. of Revenue and the IRS.
Hey JakeCongratulations on your Win in Chapel Hill!!
Ref your question above about MA and CT – We (Nick and I) have been here since April. The greatest comparison I can make between here and NC is this – every time I expect to get the hesitation and “Oh” from people regarding my marriage, they surprise me with their completely non-judgmental congratulatory reaction.
That’s not to say that the marriage-bigots don’t exist – I know they do, but I think they also know how dumb they sound here in Connecticut so its best for them keep their opinions to themselves instead of being ostracized.
If I’m not mistaken,his organization has both a 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 arm.
For me the important thing in his post is that he rarely misses the opportunity to beg for money. I’m sure he and Stickney want people to think they’re flush with valuable data now because they have exclusive access to the names and addresses of everyone who signed their petition, but if you look at their histories of meddling in legislative races, it’s pretty ineffectual. Stickney in particular wasted a lot of money this past winter on running attack ads against legislators who supported the domestic partnership bill. These were all legislators who were very solidly in their seats. Wasteful sabre-rattling. I’m sure Randall and Stickney can be an annoyance in the 2010 legislative races, but I think their bark will be worse than their bite because in my opinion their A-number one priority is making a living off of their enterprises. The organization to keep our attention on is Family Policy Institute of WA, since they have the big money connections to FOTF and NOM.
Thanks a lotSome of us only live out here in the sticks because we can’t afford the west side, but for us LGBT families, we do appreciate that most of the laws are made on the west side.
well…the laws are made in olympia, but a large swath of the legislators meeting there are from east of the cascades. we all have an equal say with the bicameral system.
Don’t forget…Rep. Maureen Walsh and Rep. Norm Johnson are from East of the Cascades
Both GOP, which is why I point that out.
Without having to subsidize eastern Washington, we could subsidize western WashingtonI am sure that we could find some place affordable for the refugees