I want to go to Congress to be a leader on economic and social justice concerns. The marriage issue is one where we, collectively in Massachusetts, get to show leadership to the rest of the country and say that nothing short of full equality should ever be acceptable.
We’ve come very far. Your help this week is what will get us to the finish line.
Thank you!
Jamie Eldridge
Please share widely!
afertig says
Awesome move to set an example for other campaigns. Is anybody else taking a day off campaigning for a person to campaign for equality?
johnt001 says
I’ll be there in support of marriage equality – it’s wrong to vote on rights! You show tremendous leadership, Jamie – I can’t wait to see you go to Congress…
goldsteingonewild says
My State Rep was visiting my school, so I asked for an update.
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At this point, he feels like the last 5 or 6 votes, from 55 down to 49, are just too close to call, he couldn’t make a prediction. The Speaker, he felt, could flip a couple; a few more seem to be finding new opportunities rather suddenly; etc.
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I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll reach the <50 plateau. I’m hoping that the last few Reps will be under such intense pressure, so much personal and emotional lobbying from happily married gay couples (combined with some pretty significant political muscle), that they just won’t hold out. Too bad, Kris Mineau.
Anyone have an updated count?
paul-jamieson says
Not just yours Goldstein.
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And if they havn’t flipped yet – they ain’t gonna flip
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as a matter of fact – i think you are going to see some flip to the pro-ammendment side.
goldsteingonewild says
what do you predict for the vote?
john-hosty-grinnell says
or there will be no vote. With more than 70% oppostion, you’d have to be a Bush to survive politically. This amendment is doomed, one way or another. I will herald a continuance, or a tabling as a victory too. There’s more than one way to take out the trash.
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If people have the right to vote away other people’s rights, do I have the right to vote that right away? đŸ˜‰
lightiris says
Why are you so angrily invested in imposing your will on others? Where does this hate spring from?
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I read your comments, and I’m baffled. I don’t understand what it is in some people that makes them so self-righteously authoritarian.
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potroast says
Most people who are proud and happy of thier owns lives and feel secure with what they achieved in life are generally happy when others accomplish the same.
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When people are dissapointed with the path thier own life has taken, have failed to find love, success or just a feeling of self satisfaction it sometimes enrages them to see others who have been able to find such happiness.
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Now, when you add in the idea that some of these happy people are gay – people who are supposed to be miserable little creatures hanging out at rest stops, well the anger must just be unbearable. So here in Massachusetts the pictures of all these gay couples, finding happiness with loving families and succesful marriages, well, you can’t be surprised that those people who are suffering from low self esteem get so angry.
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We just can’t let such negative influences drive public policy, that’s all.