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rmd for the pointers to these top two stories, which I wouldn't have caught on my own. The others below that are sources I forgot to check for the previous post.
Massachusetts: Local Fox affiliate catches petition fraud on camera;
Massachusetts GOP denies involvement in anti-marriage petition, but is discovered to be collecting signatures for the anti-gay movement in exchange for a copy of their mailing list.
Faith and Freedom Network celebrates Oregon court upholding anti-marriage amendment;
Families Northwest posts "Preserving Marriage for Kids' Sake" dinner; they're explicitly anti-gay (see next article for example) and consider the big task in "preserving marriage" to be keeping fags and dykes from hitchin' up; the big list of corporate sponsors for their fundraising dinner includes the activist fundamentalist Overlake Christian Church... and Microsoft Corporation. Anybody know what Borg is doing this time?;
Families Northwest ups the visibility level of their anti-marriage-right page, pushes for state and Federal anti-marriage amendments - though there doesn't seem to be any new content of note.
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Petition fraud caught on camera by FOX25
http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/2005/11/petition_fraud_.html
FOX25 NEWS Undercover exposes petition fraud... numerous examples of bait-and-switch caught on camera in the light of day!
Watch Fox 25 News Undercover with Mike Beaudet on Sunday, November 6 at 10:00pm.
Tom Lang & Aaron Toleos, Directors
Contact: (978) 335-0477, info@knowthyneighbor.org
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Republicans exploit gay issue; Fracture party
http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/2005/11/massgop_chair_s.html
Darrell Crate, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, appears to have made a back-room deal with sponsors of the anti-gay marriage petition to collect as many as 25% of the required signatures in exchange for access to the final database of names. Stacks of anti-gay marriage petitions attached to clipboards were handed out as early as September 22 at a Republican State Committee meeting.
MassGOP involvement in the anti-gay marriage amendment was not suspected to be this substantial as the Party is not an official supporter of the petition and many Republicans do not support the proposed amendment which is even more conservative than the one voted down by the Massachusetts legislature in September.
KnowThyNeighbor.org has been in touch with several angered Party members who feel that Crate's decision was made unilaterally and that he overstepped his bounds by not calling for a vote on the issue.
KnowThyNeighbor.org called Darrell Crate's office and spoke with MassGOP staffer Mark Rowe. When asked about involvement with the anti-gay marriage petition, Mr. Rowe initially tried to gloss over the issue saying that the Republican Party is very diverse and that the topic of same-sex marriage is "never discussed." He even went on to state that Darrell Crate respects both sides of the issue.
Upon being reminded that it was Crate who went door to door to Republican legislators during the 2004 ConCon's asking them to vote for the nastiest of the anti-gay marriage amendments, Mr. Rowe stated that Darrell Crate (who was hand-picked by Mitt Romney for his current position) was only acting on behalf of the Governor. As if Governor Romney isn't making a stand on the marriage petition now?
Emails sent from the Republican State Party Office reveal the depth of MassGOP involvement and ulterior motives.
From a September 25, 2005 email:
"We will be holding signature drives every weekend through November 13. We will be helping Vote on Marriage to collect the 65,825 signatures needed to move the gay marriage ballot initiative forward. If you would like to help with this effort, please contact the regional coordinator for your area."
And from a September 19, 2005 email by Matt St. Hilaire, political director for the MassGOP:
"The State Party’s goal is to identify thousands of voters statewide on a series of issues such as gay marriage, the tax rollback, illegal immigrant tuition, the death penalty, etc... We will then share that data with our candidates next fall so they can target these voters with very specific mailings and phone calls..."
So the gay marriage issue is never discussed? Give us a break!
When pressed, Mr. Rowe finally admitted to the Republican State Committee encouraging "grassroots activists" to get involved in the anti-gay marriage petition and he also defended the MassGOP's stance on databasing the names and addresses of the signers.
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Judge Upholds Oregon's Gay Marriage Ban
November 4, 2005
Long URL here
A judge today upheld the gay marriage ban that was adopted by Oregon voters in 2004, sweeping aside arguments by gay rights supporters that the measure is flawed.
In his ruling, Marion County Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond rejected opponents' arguments that Measure 36 contained too many changes that should have been voted on as separate amendments and that it was improperly submitted to voters.
The ruling was the latest setback for gay rights backers in Oregon, where more than 3,000 marriage licenses were granted to same-sex couples in Multnomah County in the spring of 2004 before a judge halted the practice.
The constitutional ban on gay marriage, called Measure 36, was overwhelmingly approved by Oregon voters in the November 2004 election. Seventeen other states have similar constitutional bans on same-sex marriages.
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9th Annual Families Northwest Fall Dinner & Auction
Saturday, November 5, 2005
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington
http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/fnw.aspx?pid=107
Join us for an evening of inspiration and entertainment with those who build up marriage and family. We will be raising funds and energy to fuel the Northwest Marriage & Family Movement.
Times:
Registration & Silent Auction - 5:45 p.m.
Welcome - 7:00 p.m.
Dinner/Program - 7:15 p.m.
Keynote Speaker:
Jack Kemp
Founder & Chairman of Kemp Partners
Co-Chairs
Senator Dino and Terry Rossi
Gubernatorial Candidate
Matt and Sarah Hasselbeck
Quarterback, Seattle Seahawks
9th Annual Fall Dinner & Auction Corporate Sponors:
Chairman's Club ($15,000):
Trident Seafoods
www.tridentseafoods.com
Oak Harbor Freight Lines,Inc. ($10,000)
www.oakh.com
Lozier Homes ($10,000)
www.loziergroup.com
Executive's Club ($5,000):
Lumbermens
www.lumbermens-building.com
Asset Management Strategies
www.Asset-Mgmt-Strategies.com
Crosby and Associates
www.ameriprise.com
(Crosby and Associates is a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.)
Absher Construction
www.abshernw.com
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com
In-kind ($5,000)
SuperGraphics
www.supergraphics.com
Canyons Restaurant
www.canyonsrestaurant.com
Director's Club ($2,500):
Dunn Lumber
www.dunnlum.com
Sundquist Homes
www.sundquisthomes.com
Overlake Christian Church
www.occ.org
Pratt Legacy Advisors
www.prattla.com
Lynnwood Motoplex
www.motoplex.net
CIM Financial Group
www.CIMFinancialGroup.com
Beresford Booth PLLC
www.beresfordlaw.com
Masterworks
www.masterworks.com
Capital Planning Corporate
www.capitalplanningcorp.com
Seattle Dental Associates
Financial Network
www.cmcfs.com
Olympia Communications Group
www.olygroup.com
Green Garden Foods
www.ggfoods.com
E. Kent Halvorson
www.ekhi.com
Strategic Capital Group
www.scg-llc.com
1024 Partners, LLC
www.1024partners.net
Fire Chief Equipment
www.firechief.com
In-kind ($2,500):
Seastar Restaurant
www.seastarrestaurant.com
Partner's Club ($1,200):
Bickford Motors
www.bickford.net
Lighthouse Institute
www.LighthouseInstitute.us
Pacific Crest Cabinets
www.pacificcrestcabinets.com
Point of Data
www.pointofdata.net
Knowledge First
www.knowledge-first.com
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Families Northwest
The Northwest Marriage and Family Movement
http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/fnw.aspx?pid=22
Did you know...
Due to two legal cases currently pending here in the Northwest, Washington State could become the second state in the union to legalize "gay marriage" in as little as seven months? Are we ready to allow the permanent alteration of marriage to take place here in the Northwest?
A movement for strong, healthy families can only advance if marriage is honored and preserved as the union between one man and one woman. Our goal at Families Northwest is to preserve and strengthen authentic marriage by helping others understand its definition, preserve its meaning, prevent its permanent alteration and ultimately grow its success!
Current efforts to permanently alter marriage require that each of us act now. The only way to protect and preserve authentic marriage in Washington State - both now and in the future - is to pass an amendment to the state's constitution and the federal constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman. Please use the following articles, resources and action items to help make your voice heard on this critical issue!
rmd for the pointers to these top two stories, which I wouldn't have caught on my own. The others below that are sources I forgot to check for the previous post.Massachusetts: Local Fox affiliate catches petition fraud on camera;
Massachusetts GOP denies involvement in anti-marriage petition, but is discovered to be collecting signatures for the anti-gay movement in exchange for a copy of their mailing list.
Faith and Freedom Network celebrates Oregon court upholding anti-marriage amendment;
Families Northwest posts "Preserving Marriage for Kids' Sake" dinner; they're explicitly anti-gay (see next article for example) and consider the big task in "preserving marriage" to be keeping fags and dykes from hitchin' up; the big list of corporate sponsors for their fundraising dinner includes the activist fundamentalist Overlake Christian Church... and Microsoft Corporation. Anybody know what Borg is doing this time?;
Families Northwest ups the visibility level of their anti-marriage-right page, pushes for state and Federal anti-marriage amendments - though there doesn't seem to be any new content of note.
----- 1 -----
Petition fraud caught on camera by FOX25
http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/2005/11/petition_fraud_.html
FOX25 NEWS Undercover exposes petition fraud... numerous examples of bait-and-switch caught on camera in the light of day!
Watch Fox 25 News Undercover with Mike Beaudet on Sunday, November 6 at 10:00pm.
Tom Lang & Aaron Toleos, Directors
Contact: (978) 335-0477, info@knowthyneighbor.org
----- 2 -----
Republicans exploit gay issue; Fracture party
http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/2005/11/massgop_chair_s.html
Darrell Crate, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, appears to have made a back-room deal with sponsors of the anti-gay marriage petition to collect as many as 25% of the required signatures in exchange for access to the final database of names. Stacks of anti-gay marriage petitions attached to clipboards were handed out as early as September 22 at a Republican State Committee meeting.
MassGOP involvement in the anti-gay marriage amendment was not suspected to be this substantial as the Party is not an official supporter of the petition and many Republicans do not support the proposed amendment which is even more conservative than the one voted down by the Massachusetts legislature in September.
KnowThyNeighbor.org has been in touch with several angered Party members who feel that Crate's decision was made unilaterally and that he overstepped his bounds by not calling for a vote on the issue.
KnowThyNeighbor.org called Darrell Crate's office and spoke with MassGOP staffer Mark Rowe. When asked about involvement with the anti-gay marriage petition, Mr. Rowe initially tried to gloss over the issue saying that the Republican Party is very diverse and that the topic of same-sex marriage is "never discussed." He even went on to state that Darrell Crate respects both sides of the issue.
Upon being reminded that it was Crate who went door to door to Republican legislators during the 2004 ConCon's asking them to vote for the nastiest of the anti-gay marriage amendments, Mr. Rowe stated that Darrell Crate (who was hand-picked by Mitt Romney for his current position) was only acting on behalf of the Governor. As if Governor Romney isn't making a stand on the marriage petition now?
Emails sent from the Republican State Party Office reveal the depth of MassGOP involvement and ulterior motives.
From a September 25, 2005 email:
"We will be holding signature drives every weekend through November 13. We will be helping Vote on Marriage to collect the 65,825 signatures needed to move the gay marriage ballot initiative forward. If you would like to help with this effort, please contact the regional coordinator for your area."
And from a September 19, 2005 email by Matt St. Hilaire, political director for the MassGOP:
"The State Party’s goal is to identify thousands of voters statewide on a series of issues such as gay marriage, the tax rollback, illegal immigrant tuition, the death penalty, etc... We will then share that data with our candidates next fall so they can target these voters with very specific mailings and phone calls..."
So the gay marriage issue is never discussed? Give us a break!
When pressed, Mr. Rowe finally admitted to the Republican State Committee encouraging "grassroots activists" to get involved in the anti-gay marriage petition and he also defended the MassGOP's stance on databasing the names and addresses of the signers.
----- 3 -----
Judge Upholds Oregon's Gay Marriage Ban
November 4, 2005
Long URL here
A judge today upheld the gay marriage ban that was adopted by Oregon voters in 2004, sweeping aside arguments by gay rights supporters that the measure is flawed.
In his ruling, Marion County Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond rejected opponents' arguments that Measure 36 contained too many changes that should have been voted on as separate amendments and that it was improperly submitted to voters.
The ruling was the latest setback for gay rights backers in Oregon, where more than 3,000 marriage licenses were granted to same-sex couples in Multnomah County in the spring of 2004 before a judge halted the practice.
The constitutional ban on gay marriage, called Measure 36, was overwhelmingly approved by Oregon voters in the November 2004 election. Seventeen other states have similar constitutional bans on same-sex marriages.
----- 4 -----
9th Annual Families Northwest Fall Dinner & Auction
Saturday, November 5, 2005
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington
http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/fnw.aspx?pid=107
Join us for an evening of inspiration and entertainment with those who build up marriage and family. We will be raising funds and energy to fuel the Northwest Marriage & Family Movement.
Times:
Registration & Silent Auction - 5:45 p.m.
Welcome - 7:00 p.m.
Dinner/Program - 7:15 p.m.
Keynote Speaker:
Jack Kemp
Founder & Chairman of Kemp Partners
Co-Chairs
Senator Dino and Terry Rossi
Gubernatorial Candidate
Matt and Sarah Hasselbeck
Quarterback, Seattle Seahawks
9th Annual Fall Dinner & Auction Corporate Sponors:
Chairman's Club ($15,000):
Trident Seafoods
www.tridentseafoods.com
Oak Harbor Freight Lines,Inc. ($10,000)
www.oakh.com
Lozier Homes ($10,000)
www.loziergroup.com
Executive's Club ($5,000):
Lumbermens
www.lumbermens-building.com
Asset Management Strategies
www.Asset-Mgmt-Strategies.com
Crosby and Associates
www.ameriprise.com
(Crosby and Associates is a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.)
Absher Construction
www.abshernw.com
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com
In-kind ($5,000)
SuperGraphics
www.supergraphics.com
Canyons Restaurant
www.canyonsrestaurant.com
Director's Club ($2,500):
Dunn Lumber
www.dunnlum.com
Sundquist Homes
www.sundquisthomes.com
Overlake Christian Church
www.occ.org
Pratt Legacy Advisors
www.prattla.com
Lynnwood Motoplex
www.motoplex.net
CIM Financial Group
www.CIMFinancialGroup.com
Beresford Booth PLLC
www.beresfordlaw.com
Masterworks
www.masterworks.com
Capital Planning Corporate
www.capitalplanningcorp.com
Seattle Dental Associates
Financial Network
www.cmcfs.com
Olympia Communications Group
www.olygroup.com
Green Garden Foods
www.ggfoods.com
E. Kent Halvorson
www.ekhi.com
Strategic Capital Group
www.scg-llc.com
1024 Partners, LLC
www.1024partners.net
Fire Chief Equipment
www.firechief.com
In-kind ($2,500):
Seastar Restaurant
www.seastarrestaurant.com
Partner's Club ($1,200):
Bickford Motors
www.bickford.net
Lighthouse Institute
www.LighthouseInstitute.us
Pacific Crest Cabinets
www.pacificcrestcabinets.com
Point of Data
www.pointofdata.net
Knowledge First
www.knowledge-first.com
----- 5 -----
Families Northwest
The Northwest Marriage and Family Movement
http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/fnw.aspx?pid=22
Did you know...
Due to two legal cases currently pending here in the Northwest, Washington State could become the second state in the union to legalize "gay marriage" in as little as seven months? Are we ready to allow the permanent alteration of marriage to take place here in the Northwest?
A movement for strong, healthy families can only advance if marriage is honored and preserved as the union between one man and one woman. Our goal at Families Northwest is to preserve and strengthen authentic marriage by helping others understand its definition, preserve its meaning, prevent its permanent alteration and ultimately grow its success!
Current efforts to permanently alter marriage require that each of us act now. The only way to protect and preserve authentic marriage in Washington State - both now and in the future - is to pass an amendment to the state's constitution and the federal constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman. Please use the following articles, resources and action items to help make your voice heard on this critical issue!