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• A Christmas story that defies a headline

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Kalamazoo, Michigan recently went through a wrenching referendum campaign to overturn the city council's enactment of civil rights protections that included gays. The usual sorts of opponents trotted out the usual sorts of arguments about cross-dressing men in women's bathrooms, leering and pawing, and the referendum was defeated.
  
  
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:07am EST
  

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• Having promised pro-lifers he'd do whatever it took to keep a bill implementing a 1998 DC citizen referendum on abortion rights, Senator Jim DeMint didn't vote.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  According to Fillibusted, there've been 35 cloture votes this year to break Republican filibusters in the Senate (Waldo's adding in Saturday's on the omnibus appropriations bill). Jim DeMint cast 32 votes to defeat cloture (earning him the site's recognition as the most obstructionist member of the Senate, with' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:49am EST
  

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• 1% a year: hate's slow hemorhage

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  In the state of Washington, the November referendum results on a proposal to undo the legislature's "all but marriage" domestic partnerships law have been certified. The opponents garnered 46.85% of the vote.
  
  Twelve years ago, on a simple housing and employment nondiscrimination referendum, they got 59.7% against.[...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:11pm EST
  

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• DC Mayor Refuses Citizens a Vote on Marriage

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  In a hearing today on "Greater Autonomy for the Nation's Capital," Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty stated he does not believe citizens in his city should have the right to vote on marriage.

  Asked if he would be in favor of a vote on a referendum against same-sex "marriage" [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:57pm EST
  by Daniel J. Cassidy

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