Despite some criticism for this and that, the No on 8 campaign seems to back on track. At least that’s the way it appeared yesterday at the Market Street headquarters. Mayor Gavin Newsom, California Assemblymember Fiona Ma, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Assessor Phil Ting, and Treasurer Jose Cisneros were all on hand to encourage the No on 8 workers at HQ.
Talk of the day concerned how much Pro-8 “Mormon money” from Idaho and Utah was coming into the state of California and how many phone calls the hundreds of volunteers were making.
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The mayor went off on a tangent about how constitutions have “never been changed to take peoples’ rights away” and how the U.S.(?) Constitution has been amended 17 times since the time of the Bill of Rights (which is true, they’re called the “subsequent amendments“) for the sole purpose of giving people rights. This would be correct only if you ignore a few, such as the 16th, or the 18th, or the 22nd, or the…
But don’t worry about that, just sign up for the campaign if you want. And ask about perks you might get, such as free massages:
It can’t hurt to ask them, anyway.
Will Attorney General Jerry Brown get the credit for defeating Prop 8, as this article suggests? Only time will tell.
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