Can Corzine & Co. Pass a Marriage Bill Before Chris Christie Takes Office?
With Republican Chris Christie beating gay marriage supporter and incumbent Jon Corzine by more than four points in yesterday’s election, New Jersey will find itself with an anti-gay chief executive in January. Does that mean gay marriage is off the table for the Garden State in the near future?
Not if Garden State Equality has anything to say about it. Jersey’s leading pro-marriage group isn’t letting Corzine’s defeat quiet its ambitions. The group kicked off a new television advertising campaign as Corzine and sympathetic lawmakers work to pass a major bill before he leaves office: same-sex marriage legislation.
In a lame duck session planned in January before Corzine exits, a marriage bill is expected to be voted on; Corzine has promised to sign it if it reaches his desk. Hence the advertising campaign, to convince voters to write, call, and pound on the doors of legislators to get them to vote for it.
Because otherwise, they’ll be inducting a governor who wants to ban it entirely. By people’s vote. And you know how that’s fared recently.
The Mouse ran down the clock and the Elephant crushed it in the stampede to Fascism!
Chris Christie CANNOT initiate a people’s vote in New Jersey. Only the legislature can. He can campaign to get the law changed so that NJ has initiative and referendum, or he can lobby to place anti-gay legislators in the NJ legislature, but there will be no “people’s veto” in the near future if marriage equality is passed there.
Gays have a real reason to be afraid in NJ! Christie may very well eat them all!!!
This would require Corzine and other Democrats to want to actually deliver a result to gays and not just want to use the possibility of delivering a result at some undetermined point in the future as an enticement to get the gays’ votes and money.
I think you know the answer to that.
Then Chris Christie will eat Manhattan for dessert!
@Bruno
Yep he’s spot on. No such thing as a “people’s vote” in NJ. And if Christie were to get the law changed, I suggest a referendum to increase taxes on fat rich white men.
WE MUST pressure this Fat F*ck and remind him that he barely won the election based on the economy, not right wing agenda’s on social issues.