Posted on 07/30/2008 12:32:37 PM PDT by average american student
In an overt attempt to sabotage Proposition 8, California’s marriage protection amendment, Attorney General Jerry Brown has reworded the ballot summary. The initiative that 1.1 million California voters signed and was to have appeared on the ballot read “[Proposition 8] amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”"
With Brown’s creative writing, the new ballot summary says that it “‘changes California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.” Further it claims that the state will be impacted with a potential revenue loss of several million dollars-an argument calculated to prejudice voters in these difficult economic times.
Jennifer Kerns, spokeswoman for the Protect Marriage coalition, told the LA Times that the new language was “inherently argumentative” and said it could “prejudice voters against the initiative.”
The LA Times also reported, “The dust-up reflects the fierce battle being waged over the question of same-sex marriage in California, the most closely-watched social issue that will appear on the November ballot. And it has raised suspicion in some circles that Brown, a possible candidate for governor in 2010, was influenced by politics. “He is delivering something…that is very important to the gay community, and that is a title and summary that is more likely to lead you to vote “no,” said political analyst Tony Quinn.
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If I signed a petition with the original wording, would the petitions now be invalid???
Jerry Brown has always projected questionable gender to me and I lived in Calif for many years.
By electing Jerry Brown to AG shows just how STUPID a majority of Kalifornias voter really are.
And as usual, Californias “conservatives” will let Brown get away with this nonsense. And who believes Ahnold will say anything?? Not if his Kennedy clan wife has his testicles still in her Hillary style lockbox.
Why would Arnold say anything? He’s come out against Prop 8 and vowed to campaign against it.
The Jerkinator’s wife is, and always has been, an Obama supporter, but is is largely reponsible for the Jerkinator’s sudden tilt to the Left not long after he became the Gobernator.
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