It's a blue, blue day for Mr Bush
Yay! The Governor's Mansion is back in the proper hands (actually, this 'red' state had Democrat governors for decades before the outgoing governor). And he'll have a Democrat-controlled state legislature to work with, as the Republicans failed to take back the control they lost in 2004. We almost sent a majority of Dems to Congress; unfortunately, one of the most evil Republicans on the planet held her seat (thank you third-party opposition, which probably split the 'against' vote). It should be interesting to see what the Democrats do with a majority in the House and maybe Senate, considering that they've spent the last six years rubber-stamping everything Bush put before them.
We also wasted a lot of money on another domestic partnership initiative, which went down in flames. Hello, gay politics: the country isn't ready for this (please see Virginia). And I'm one of the two-thirds of the gay community that isn't affected at all by this issue. Now, can we please focus on non-discrimination, which affects us all? (The irony of the domestic partnership issue is that you would be able to ask for benefits for your partner at work - and then your company could legally fire you for your sexual orientation. Great thinking, folks.)
I'm curious to see if the VA amendment will get overturned for the same reason Amendment 2 was overturned: 'A state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its law.' Of course, it's a different court than the one we had in 1996, and if the VA amendment stands, we can expect Focus on the Family to begin another assault on the Colorado communities that do protect us from discrimination (Denver, Boulder and the ski towns).
ETA: Something I didn't know: Additionally, capitalizing on Western voters is among the reasons that Democrats scheduled a presidential caucus in Nevada to be held a week before the New Hampshire primary in 2008.. That's good news, I think, for the West. We've been cut out of the political process at the primary stage by the lateness of our primaries. By the time the campaigns get to us, the winner is usually decided. (In fact, Colorado didn't even hold a presidential election primary in 2004 - the legislature decided that it was a waste of money, and though that was a Republican decision, they were right.)
We also wasted a lot of money on another domestic partnership initiative, which went down in flames. Hello, gay politics: the country isn't ready for this (please see Virginia). And I'm one of the two-thirds of the gay community that isn't affected at all by this issue. Now, can we please focus on non-discrimination, which affects us all? (The irony of the domestic partnership issue is that you would be able to ask for benefits for your partner at work - and then your company could legally fire you for your sexual orientation. Great thinking, folks.)
I'm curious to see if the VA amendment will get overturned for the same reason Amendment 2 was overturned: 'A state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its law.' Of course, it's a different court than the one we had in 1996, and if the VA amendment stands, we can expect Focus on the Family to begin another assault on the Colorado communities that do protect us from discrimination (Denver, Boulder and the ski towns).
ETA: Something I didn't know: Additionally, capitalizing on Western voters is among the reasons that Democrats scheduled a presidential caucus in Nevada to be held a week before the New Hampshire primary in 2008.. That's good news, I think, for the West. We've been cut out of the political process at the primary stage by the lateness of our primaries. By the time the campaigns get to us, the winner is usually decided. (In fact, Colorado didn't even hold a presidential election primary in 2004 - the legislature decided that it was a waste of money, and though that was a Republican decision, they were right.)