REMINDER: THE site for results is this Bangor Daily News link.... even the campaign is using it as a reference.
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Got this preliminary program for later tonight:
9 pm- Maine Coalition MC- Betsy Smith, Executive Director of EqualityMaine
Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, GLAD Shenna Bellows, Executive Director, MCLU Myke Johnson, Anne Underwood or Marvin Ellison, Religious Coalition
9:30 pm- Elected Officials MC: Jesse Connolly, Campaign Manager of No On 1/ Protect Maine Equality
Governor John Baldacci U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree Maine Senate President Libby Mitchell Maine Speaker Hannah Pingree
10 pm- National Partners MC: Pat Peard, No On 1/Protect Maine Equality, Executive Committee Member
Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Joe Solmonese, President, Human Rights Campaign Robin Brand, Senior Consultant, Gill Acti)on
10:30pm- Maine Families MC: Darlene Huntress, GOTV Direstoc, No On 1/Protect Maine Equality
Ray Dumont of Portland reads his Mom's (Yolande Dumont) letter Bill Whitten, Yarmouth Terry Guerette or Tamiko Davies, Portland Jim Bishop or Steve Ryan, Bar Mills
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
This Adam Lambert controversy is ridiculous - that's my take on it.
Well. The Catholic Church spends oodles to defeat marriage equality in Maine, and yet there own record on child abuse.
The Advocate is asking the question "Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill?"
As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response:
The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No.
I was waiting for evidence that the networks, particularly CBS with its blurring of Adam Lambert's on-screen kiss of his male bandmate during the post-Children's Hour performance on the American Music Awards.
A real laff-fest for you...Rep. Michele "deranged" Bachmann (R-MN) as a featured guest along with Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin at the first National Tea Party Convention can conjure up a lot of jokes, but it's all true, including restricted press access to save them from themselves on camera.
Blame Dawn in Maine for this video- we were just talking about Arlo a few minutes ago on the phone and I mentioned that the first time I ever heard "Alice's Restaurant" was on Thanksgiving Day 1987, as I was driving back from my relative's in Amherst MA to my apartment outside Boston.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving, meaning the burning of wood and manufactured fire logs is banned both indoors and outdoors from midnight tonight until midnight Thursday.
From: http://www.tips-q.com/1638591-war-thanksgiving
This gem is from Christian Newswire:
The war over Thanksgiving as a holiday began when a generation was taught that the holiday's first setting was Pilgrims being saved from starvation by Native Americans.It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread...
In the wake of the tragedy of marriage equality being rolled back in Maine by mob rule, I know a lot of people I've talked to in recent days have questioned the wisdom of pouring money into ballot initiatives.
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