Hats off to Dianne Feinstein! Appearing in a 30-second spot today, the California Senator urged her constituents to vote “no” on Proposition 8. Says Feinstein, “Proposition 8 would be a terrible mistake for California. It’s about discrimination and we must always say NO to that.”
Here’s to the persuasive power of formidable – and gay friendly! – women.
Craig
That’s great, and it’s the least she can do as our former mayor. So, when are we going to hear from Pelosi, who represents us in Congress?
tj
I found these No on 8 commercials on YouTube. Leave it to the tubes to bring the funny along with some great No on 8 messages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxqXQAiyT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnOA4wwC9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFONnWGMIs
Bill Perdue
Feinstein? Gay friendly? You’ve got to be kidding.
First of all she’s a Democrat and over the last two years they’ve trashed our agenda, gutting ENDA, ditching the hate crimes bill and refusing to repeal Clintons DOMA and DADT, while the Republicans sat back and smirked. The Democrats implemented the more open bigotry of the Republicans and took the heat for it. Usually it’s the Republicans playing hard cop. But while they controlled Congress Democrats like Reid, Clinton, Kennedy, Obama, Pelosi and Barney Frank did their dirty work for them.
Feinstein’s contribution was to insure that bigots sat on the US Circuit Court of Appeals and in the AG’s office. According to the Editorial Board of the NY Times Senator Feinstein, Democrat of California, has disappointed liberals on a series of key votes in recent weeks. She provided the pivotal vote on the Judiciary Committee in favor of Leslie Southwick, a judicial nominee whom civil rights groups tried to block because of his bad record on race and gay rights.
Mr. Southwick, as a state court judge, ruled in favor of reinstating a white woman who was fired after she called a colleague a “good ole nigger.†He also ruled, in an especially cruel decision, that a woman should lose custody of her child because she was bisexual.”
Her politics make her a winner in the usual Democratic trifecta – the race to see who can support the war, pander to the most bigots and outspend everyone paying off the debts of the incompetent rich with our money.
She wins, we lose.
AJ
I’m not from CA, but am following the No on 8 campaign closely. we’re rooting for you. Today I stumbled across this youtube posting, and it scared the crap out of me, because it seems so objective until the last about minute, when it slants crazily in favor of a yes vote.
the comments were so supportive.
anything being done out there to combat this one? The prop 8 in plain language cartoon is the closest thing to a swift boat I’ve seen, and I’d love it if there was a powerful response! Come on, guys!
john
I’d love to know why hate speech against any minority group is allowed at all. I understand free speech, I get it and it’s wonderful, new ideas and thoughts which make us think in new progressive ways, etc…it’s all great, but then you have people who are basically riding the line between sanity and insanity who’s lives are filled with paranoia and fear are allowed to speak up against any person or minority group that THEY don’t like. There has to be a way to stop people from bringing psychological, social and physical harm to others with their ideological or misinformed beliefs. The fact that the Mormon Church can spend over $8 million dollars to suppress a minority groups rights HAS TO BE illegal on some level, I mean THEY should definitely be losing their tax exempt status, they used church funds to rewrite law, not religious law but state and federal law governing the rights of all men to be free and equal under this government, NOT their church doctrines…but the church doctrines are winning, isn’t that a marriage of church and state? TIRED OF THE RELIGIOUS TRYING TO RULE.
Another John
At least Sen. Fienstein – for all her flaws – is trying to be helpful. What have California gays done to preserve same-sex marriage? Not a damn thing. Except bitch about how it is everyone else’s fault this is happening.
Samuel L. Jackson, the cast of Ugly Betty, and did radio ads. Sen. Barbara Boxer sent out a mass e-mail urging her supporters to vote against the proposition.Maria Shriver and Bill Maher are among the media personalities who’ve denounceed Prop. 8 on national television. Brad Pitt, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg donated $100,000 each. Apple, AT&T, Google, Levi-Strauss, PG&E, and other corporations have donated millions to this effort. The California teachers’ union has invested over $1,000,000 trying to counter the right=wing lies about children being affected by this. Mayors Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa are campaigning hard.
It seems like straight allies are actually doing more to “protect” same-sex marriage than the beneficiaries are. All I’ve seen from gays, aside from Ellen’s well-done PSA, is a whole of bar chatter and complaining. You don’t win elections by downing Long Island Iced Teas and whining about how horrible your life is.
If we lose, it is because we didn’t want it more than the other team. That’s all there is to it. The religious right might be full of bigoted nutjobs. But they’re committed to their cause. They’re willing to spend money and time on it. Something that I certainly haven’t seen among homosexuals.
Bill Perdue
Another John – I don’t think you could be more wrong. In spite of their timid leadership and the betrayals of the Democrats and Republicans, thousands of volunteers are pouring their time and effort into defeating Prop. 8 in California and similar measures in Arizona and Florida.
Tens of thousands of GLBT folks have contributed millions of dollars in those efforts and if we can’t all match a million dollar donation from this or that megastar that’s all right.
I’m glad some straight people support us to offset the religious bitots put in motion by the bitoted statements of OBama and McCain about same sex marriage.
Where does all this bitterness against our communities come from? I’m betting it’s not from a healthy place.