Former Seattle Seahawks star, former GOP congressman and current president and CEO of the mobile phone lobbying group CTIA Steve Largent may be the next Prop 8 donor to feel the heat professionally. Marriage activist Fred Karger notes Largent’s wife donated $2,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign, and today the Washington, DC-based publication Roll Call has a story (behind its subscription wall, alas) that reports the cellular firms who back CTIA aren’t all that thrilled with the donation. This excites many marriage activists, but in the long run, is this kind of pressure on employees good for the marriage movement?
Archive for December 4th, 2008
The Gay City News follows up on The New York Times story suggesting there was little hope for a marriage bill making it through both houses of the New York Legislature in 2009. A couple legislators in the original NYT piece take issue with how they were quoted. Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, was none too pleased with the Times’s story as well.
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polling on prop 8
Evangelicals and Republicans voted Yes, The college educated voted No. But there was a lot that surprised Public Policy Institute of California President Marc Baldassare in his new poll, particularly the emotion over Proposition 8:
PPIC found that 63 percent of voters were more interested in Prop. 8 than any of the dozen statewide initiatives; no other ballot measure drew more than 5 percent of voters.
“We can say from our polling,” Baldassare said, “that we’ve never seen anything like the interest that was generated by Prop. 8.
More details from the poll are right here.
