Yay for Lawyers Edition

May 28, 2008

LOL…OMG…WTF…
I saw this graphic used over at Dailykos.com and had to have it for my own. The corner gas station in Marinwood was $4.21 for regular. Can’t we sue the oil companies and the oil speculators or something? Mind you, I am not in favor of the lame Gas Tax Holiday, because I like my bridges and roads to be safe and not collapsing — I am funny that way.

Time to date myself…I remember riding my bike while my parents waited in line for gas in the early seventies during the oil crisis. I think they got to gas up on even days.

That reminds me…I have to gas up today so I can drive downtown San Francisco to do some phone banking for NO ON PROP 98. Come one, come all. I was going to do some calling at home over the weekend, but as you may know I had this enormous head cold descend upon me. If I had called people it wouldn’t have been about NO ON 98 anymore, but whether or not the lady calling them was going to live or not. So tonight I come, for the cause and FREE PIZZA.

Barack-Obama-rama

Slinkerwink over at Dailykos.com has a great article telling Obama supporters NOT to protest the DNC Rules committee this weekend. It is not just Slinkerwink, but it is confirmed that the Obama campaign doesn’t want it either. It also turns out that DNC lawyers have ruled that the Rules committee DO NOT have the legal authority to seat the full delegates from Florida and Michigan. Clinton’s only hope now is settle for half of the delegates in each state, or go for the Credentials Committee in late June and then to the convention. A convention fight? Really?

In other news, Marinmaven has been accepted into the Obama Organizing Fellowship, so I will be busy this summer getting Obama elected in the Fall. I am fired up and ready to go, y’all. Well, I got my Deadheads for Obama ‘08 t-shirt over at Phil Lesh’s website. Out of all the Obama shirts, this one is definitely me. Now if only I can find a matching bumpersticker…

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California-A-Go-Go

June 17th, Marin County Recorder’s office will be offering marriage licenses to same-sex couples. What a happy day.

Calitics has an article about a new poll that says that 51% of Californians approve of gay and lesbian marriage. Yay. The dark side of the force is weakening. Let us work to stop the horrible initiative anyway. Leave nothing to chance and be a state that is a beacon across the country for respect and dignity for ALL citizens.

Calitics has an article about the shameful November ballot initiative that would change the constitution to prevent gays and lesbian citizens from marrying. It turns out that this initiative is UNLAWFUL, because it not only amends the constitution but revises the constitution.

“Norte cites several sets of case law, but what it boils down to is that California citizens can amend the Constitution by ballot initiative, but they cannot change the fundamental parts of it (such as fundamental rights granted, and fundamental workings of the government) by ballot initiative. Changes of that scale are called revisions, and revisions can only be accomplished by a constitutional convention and popular ratification of the changes made by the convention, or by the Legislature passing the change and submitting it to the electorate for popular ratification.”

“With the CA Supreme Court ruling on May 15th, marriage was reaffirmed as a fundamental right in California, and furthermore, sexual orientation was placed into a protected category, subject to strict scrutiny. Therefore, a ballot initiative cannot take away that fundamental right, because that kind of a change is a revision of the Constitution, necessitating a constitutional convention. Additionally, any attempt to do so will come under the heading of strict scrutiny, which means that the government must show a compelling reason why it is excluding people from marriage. That cannot be done; there is no compelling reason. Ron George and his fellow justices made sure that they eliminated those arguments in their majority opinion.“

So I am calling on Jared Huffman, Deborah Bowen, Carole Migden, and all our local politicians to get our Attorney General, Jerry Brown, to come out and put an end to this horrible law-breaking initiative. Can we get this done, guys? I believe in you! Go…Go…Go!

Posted in LGBT Rights, Marriage Equity, NO ON 98, california politics