Thursday, September 21, 2006
Massachusetts primary results
MassEquality, our local political organization that is fighting to keep gay marriage legal in Massachusetts, sent me this message after Tuesday's primary election:
"Earlier today Massachusetts voters turned out at polling places around the state and overwhelmingly cast ballots for pro-equality candidates.
While we at MassEquality were focused on legislative races, Deval Patrick's victory in Democratic Party primary election for governor marks a new and exciting era in Massachusetts politics. For the first time in our state's history, the gubernatorial candidate of a major party fully supports marriage equality. With fair-minded Worcester Mayor Tim Murray running beside him, Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for an all-star pro-equality team.
Eight incumbent pro-equality legislators faced opposition in today's balloting, and all were victorious. ..... Since the November 2003 Goodridge ruling, not one single pro-equality legislator has lost an election.
Today's balloting also featured twelve elections for open seats, nine of which are now held by retiring anti-equality legislators. Pro-equality candidates won Democratic primaries in eight of these twelve open seat elections."
Good news for our GLBT citizens in Massachusetts. And we are turning up the heat in New York through the Empire State Pride Agenda. Their annual dinner is in October. It is a major fundraiser for them. If you can attend, I will buy you a drink! New York has to be the next state to legalize gay marriage.
This joke I stole from one of my blogger buddies, Hoss (Old Horsetail Snake) was too good to pass up:
Laura Bush bought Dubya a parrot for George's birthday. You hear about that? She told Dick Cheney, "This bird is so smart! George has already taught him to mispronounce over 200 words.""Wow, that's impressive!" Cheney says. "But you realize that he just says the words. He doesn't understand what they mean.""That's okay," Laura replies. "Neither does the parrot."
"Earlier today Massachusetts voters turned out at polling places around the state and overwhelmingly cast ballots for pro-equality candidates.
While we at MassEquality were focused on legislative races, Deval Patrick's victory in Democratic Party primary election for governor marks a new and exciting era in Massachusetts politics. For the first time in our state's history, the gubernatorial candidate of a major party fully supports marriage equality. With fair-minded Worcester Mayor Tim Murray running beside him, Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for an all-star pro-equality team.
Eight incumbent pro-equality legislators faced opposition in today's balloting, and all were victorious. ..... Since the November 2003 Goodridge ruling, not one single pro-equality legislator has lost an election.
Today's balloting also featured twelve elections for open seats, nine of which are now held by retiring anti-equality legislators. Pro-equality candidates won Democratic primaries in eight of these twelve open seat elections."
Good news for our GLBT citizens in Massachusetts. And we are turning up the heat in New York through the Empire State Pride Agenda. Their annual dinner is in October. It is a major fundraiser for them. If you can attend, I will buy you a drink! New York has to be the next state to legalize gay marriage.
This joke I stole from one of my blogger buddies, Hoss (Old Horsetail Snake) was too good to pass up:Laura Bush bought Dubya a parrot for George's birthday. You hear about that? She told Dick Cheney, "This bird is so smart! George has already taught him to mispronounce over 200 words.""Wow, that's impressive!" Cheney says. "But you realize that he just says the words. He doesn't understand what they mean.""That's okay," Laura replies. "Neither does the parrot."
Countess Bedelia 9/21/2006 04:19:00 PM
3 Comments:
Congrats on the election, Countess. That sounds mighty good to me.
I bet the parrot learns how to open his cage and get out before it's too late.
Thanks, Hoss.
Mrs. A - I did feel sorry for that poor parrot!
Mrs. A - I did feel sorry for that poor parrot!