Georgia voters say "YES" to Personhood amendment

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 07/22/2010 | Staff

[Patriot1259]

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - Christian Newswire - Throughout the state on Tuesday, July 20th voters supported an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that said the "right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death" and that right should be protected by law.

In all 46 counties where the amendment was presented, it passed overwhelmingly by an amazing 75 % ! Georgia is the first state in the nation where voters have said "Yes" to the Personhood question.

Georgia Right to life chapters began work this spring in requesting that their local county parties place this non-binding "party" question on their local party ballots. Both Democrat and Republican parties were approached. Butts county was the only county to succeed in getting both parties to cooperate and approve the measure (Republicans 79% and the Democrats 72%). "There is no question that the people of Georgia would pass a Personhood Amendment" IF given the chance!", says Dan Becker, President of Georgia Right to Life. "The ball is now in the Legislature's hands to allow the people a voice on the most pressing human rights issue of the 21st century . . . deny them at your own peril."

In 2011, GRTL will use the results of the ballot to lobby the Georgia Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the 2012 general election ballot.

The counties in Georgia and their percentages are Bacon (88%), Banks (85%), Bartow (81%), Brantley (88%), Bulloch (84%), Burke (86%), Butts –Republican ballot (79%), Butts Democratic ballot (72%), Carroll (80%), Chatham (78%), Cherokee (75%), Clayton (77%), Coffee (87%), Colquitt ( 85%), DeKalb (60%), Dooly (87%), Fannin (80%), Fulton (62%), Glynn (72%), Gordon (85%), Gwinnett (71%), Hall (78%), Hart (83%), Jackson (82%), Jasper (76%), Jeff Davis (92%), Jones (80%), Lamar (80%), Liberty (78%), Lowndes (85%), Murray (88%), Muscogee (81%), Paulding (80%), Pickens (75%), Pierce (89%), Spalding (80%), Thomas (84%), Tift (84%), Towns (81%), Troup (82%), Twiggs (87%), Union (78%), Walker (85%), Walton (82%), Ware (87%), Wilcox (86%), Worth (85%).

[Gaffer]

I really hesitated when asked this question. You see, I forgot that this was a primary election and not a general election. Typically, those lobbyists, special interest victim groups and just outright crooks use these amendment questions as a ploy to convince voters to vote for it. They are often so innocuously worded that ANYONE asked the question would agree with it, yet the final State Constitution Amendment language is COMPLETELY different and contains elements the populace would NEVER vote for.

After I realized it was a Republican primary and not binding, I affirmed.

[Blueflag]

We said yes to that, and ...

We also supported repealing Obamacare, and supported the AZ law as well.

All told there were 5 conservative headline issues on the referendum ballot, and they passed like 90:10.

Even on the democratic side of the ballot, conservative issues passed.

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OVERALL in the Georgia open primary, Republican voters outnumbered Democrat voters 5:3, even in ‘solidly blue’ districts (although not quite as wide a margin. Clearly the RIGHT base is motivated. 21% turnout overall though. grumble.

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Here’s the referendum results:

Ballot Questions

Republican party
questions
1. Do you support the repeal of the federal Health Care Reform bill?
53,877 yes
6,057 no

2. Do you support a Value Added Tax (VAT) as a way of increasing federal revenues?
7,004 yes
51,712 no

3. Do you support an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from the earliest biological beginning until natural death?
41,863 yes
16,786 no

4. Do you support the passage of a law in Georgia similar to the immigration law recently passed in Arizona?
55,770 yes
4,185 no

5. Do you support Georgia’s participation in lawsuits filed regarding the constitutionality of the federally imposed health care mandate?
53,661 yes
5,691 no

Democratic party
questions
1. Do you believe the county has done enough to solve traffic congestion in Gwinnett County?
3,710 yes
13,490 no

2. Would you use public transportation, such as MARTA, if it were more readily available in Gwinnett County?
12,599 yes
4,700 no

3. Would you support a 1 percent sales tax increase to extend MARTA into Gwinnett County?
10,972 yes
6,296 no

4. Do you believe your residential property taxes are too high?
13,512 yes
3,532 no

5. Do you think that the county should reassess all residential property values in Gwinnett to determine their true current value at the county’s expense without requiring you to file an appeal?
14,715 yes
2,301 no

6. Would you support a significant increase in the sales tax in exchange for the elimination of your residential property taxes?
8,324 yes
8,655 no

7. Are you satisfied with the quality of education that your child (or children) receive in Gwinnett County?
10,332 yes
5,573 no

8. Do you believe that all of the educational clusters in Gwinnett are treated equally and receive the same resources?
5,443 yes
10, 511 no
9. Gwinnett County is currently divided up into five school board districts. Do you think that the number of school districts should be expanded to provide greater representation?
9,987 yes
6,044 no

10. Do you believe that the county commission is properly managing the financial issues in the county?
5,591 yes
10,463 no

11. Gwinnett County is currently divided up into four county commission districts which represents all of Gwinnett County. Do you think that the number of county commission districts should be expanded to provide greater representation to its citizens?
11,606 yes
4,712 no

12. Are you satisfied with the performance of the current county commission?
5,978 yes
9,941 no

13. If you are not satisfied with the current county commission, would you support a recall effort to have them replaced?
9,037 yes
5,560 no

14. Do you believe that the laws concerning illegal immigration are being fairly enforced in Gwinnett?
7,509 yes
8,839 no

15. Do you believe that in addition to prosecuting illegal immigrations that the county should also prosecute the employers who hired them?
12,947 yes
3,935 no

16. Do you believe that the county should require each employer in the county to obtain information from their employees to verify their immigration status?
15,048 yes
2,051 no

[Blueflag]

p.s. those are Gwinnett County results. A decade ago, Gwinnett was solid red and predominantly white.

Gwinnett is not MINORITY white, but still votes ‘red’. That’s a good sign.

[Do Be]

The states are going to have to turn this mess around. The Federal government is broken and like poor old Humpty, can mot be put together again.

[brooklyn dave]

I would have to read how the amendment is worded. Now, would that criminalize all abortions (because now the fetus has legal personhood) or is there some wiggle room —life of the mother, rape, incest, where the fetus is severely deformed, etc? I believe that a good 95% or more should not be done because the fetus is perfectly healthy. It is usually a case where the two are tangoing and can’t be bothered putting on a rubber or taking the pill....ignorance, laziness, or just plain “not giving a sh*t” of the consequences. In general, I ould be more on the side of giving personhood to the fetus if it means stopping 90% or so of the abortions performd in this country. Let the government stop funding Mrs. Sanger Abortion mills around the country and you’d see the number of abortions decrease.