"Yes on Prop 8" Signs On A Slow Boat From China

Topix Gay News  Sep 24 08

The economy is sinking and people are losing their jobs across the country. What better time than now for proponents for California's Prop 8 to outsource their one million "Yes on Prop 8″ yard signs to China?

Those "Yes On Prop 8″ signs were intended to miraculously appear on lawns all across California at 7:00 am on September 22 to give the appearance of a sudden "blossoming of support" (their words, oft repeated) for the initiative, according to plans devised by LDS backers of California's "Yes on Prop 8″ campaign. But a serious glitch in that plan means that those signs weren't ready for last Monday's launch. Full story...

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