"The "Vote No: Protect Our Constitution" group.... fearful that allowing voters to petition to put questions on the ballot could lead to dramatic tax cuts and public employee layoffs. Other members of the coalition include mostly liberal organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, NARAL Pro-Choice CT, and Connecticut Citizen Action Group. Nearly all of the state's top Democratic officials also oppose a convention"
Connecticut residents can't petition their government?
Sieg Heil, 'eh, LIBERALS?
"Conn. ballot masks a battle; Convention vote could lead to ban on gay marriage" by Gregory B. Hladky, Globe Correspondent | November 3, 2008
HARTFORD - The jubilation that gay couples felt just three weeks ago when Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage has been replaced by Election Day jitters.
Their worries are focused on a ballot question asking voters if they want to authorize Connecticut's first convention in more than 40 years to revise the state constitution.
Opponents of same-sex marriage, including the state's Catholic bishops, are pushing hard for a convention because they believe it could lead to a direct ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in Connecticut. A new poll by the University of Connecticut and the Hartford Courant found that 50 percent of voters surveyed supported the convention and 39 percent opposed it. But the same poll indicated 55 percent opposed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
I'm sick of the damn agenda-pushing Zionists of division pushing this damn issue.
For more, see: California's Perverted Politics
One of the plaintiffs in the case, Jeffrey Busch of Wilton, said the constitutional convention question "has cast a pall" over his family. Busch and his longtime partner, Stephen Davis, have been planning to get married since the state's high court handed down its decision on Oct. 10.
His "family?" It is TWO GAY GUYS!!! Sigh.
These guys wouldn't be Jewish, would they?
"My name is Jeffrey Busch. This is my partner, Stephen Davis. We have a two-and-a-half-year-old well-adjusted son named Elijah. And we're here today to share with you why it is so important to our family that Stephen and I be able to marry one another. Our family looks a lot like a lot of other families in Connecticut. Stephen and I have been together for 15 years. We love each other and we plan to spend the rest of our lives together.
In 2002, our son Eli was born. And like many parents we juggle our professional lives, mine as an administrative judge, Stephen's as a digital library program director at Columbia University. And we do this in order to spend as much time as possible with our son. We take Eli to music group. We take him to yoga class, to the library readings, to our local synagogue, Temple B'nai Chaim"
Need I say more?
How come at the BOTTOM of EVERY AGEND-PUSHING ISSUE you find JEWS?!!!
Other members of the coalition include mostly liberal organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, NARAL Pro-Choice CT, and Connecticut Citizen Action Group. Nearly all of the state's top Democratic officials also oppose a convention. "We believe it would be an occasion for mischief-making by special interest groups," said Martin M. Looney, a New Haven Democrat and the state Senate majority leader.
As opposed to CORPORTATE LOBBYISTS and OUT-of-STATERS coming in and THWARTING the WILL of the PEOPLE, right?
ANOTHER INCUMBENT that needs to be TURNED OUT!!!
A coalition of pro-convention groups calling itself the Constitutional Convention Campaign has raised only about $15,000. "Our operation is pretty much lawn signs," Peter Wolfgang, president of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a conservative group opposed to same-sex marriage, said.
The $$$ TELLS YOU a lot!! The MORE $$$ an issue has, the more it is being driven by AGENDA-PUSHING ASSHOLES!! Always vote with the LESSER $$$, folks! Why do you think I am VOTING NADER and THIRD-PARTIES this year
Also see: The Rigging of the Massachusetts Vote Has Begun
The Rigging of the Massachusetts Vote Has Begun, Part Deux
He said the disparity in the two groups' funding undermines notions that well-heeled conservatives would try to buy influence at a convention. The state's Catholic bishops and their lobbying arm, the Connecticut Catholic Conference, have been broadcasting radio editorials and TV ads in support of a convention.
See, Catholics aren't all bad!!!
A key reason 50 percent of surveyed Connecticut voters said they would support a convention is their unhappiness with the state legislature, the poll said. Of those surveyed, 65 percent said they want a direct ballot initiative system in Connecticut, something already legal in 31 other states, including Massachusetts.
It is EVERYWHERE, America!!
The YEARNING for the WILL of the PEOPLE and LIBERTY!!!!!
Few of those surveyed in the UConn-Courant poll apparently realized that state lawmakers would be the ones to decide who would be named as delegates to a convention. Busch said he has been surprised by "how little discussion there has been over this," and is worried that people won't connect the idea of a convention with the campaign against same-sex marriage.
I say APPROVE IT this time, and GIVE YOURSELVES a VOICE, Connecticut citizens!!!
