Entry: Constitutional Marriage Amendment passes- for now Saturday, September 18, 2004



Despite voter irregularities in New Orleans (see previous post), the One Man One Woman marriage amendment passed in Louisiana. However, New Orleans would not have made much of a difference on this issue. The amendment passed with 79% of the state vote for passage.

No word yet whether Louisiana has been dubbed the 'Hate State' or if there will be a boycott by the gay community on Louisiana. Hopefully any boycott will include not giving campaign donations to Democrat candidates.

Cleo may have won his PSC campaign but he obviously doesn't have the pull with African American votes that he used to have. Fields, known from driving African Americans down to the polls while handing out his 'Vote the Fields Ticket' that contains the names of other Democrats was unable to get the African American community to vote for Winfield. Byron Sharper, who ran against Fields during the last election, won handily.

It is not yet known whether Cleo supported the Marriage Amendment and his supporters voted for it, or if he opposed it and just could not deliver the votes on this issue either. I'm betting that Cleo Fields is just no longer an influential player.

   3 comments

Stephanie
September 20, 2004   02:17 PM PDT
 
I've started to read your blog just recently, and I can't believe I've missed so much--but I am glad that I've found it and can bask in the Neanderthal-ness that you and I share. (And, a Neanderthal Woman, nonetheless!)
To side with you, perchance Missourah and Louisiana can be partners in Ignorant Homosexual Acceptanceness. The Amendment (II) passed in my state, back in August, while expanding gambling did not. Fancy that. Guess we're just a bunch of Victorian-Age hypocrites that are imposing morality on others. Disgusting, isn't it, this silent-majority?

Keep up the good work.
Stephanie
Jeffery
September 19, 2004   10:51 AM PDT
 
Geez, Thanks for pointing out how stupid we are in other states. Maybe we can listen too you and have our state just like it was under Grey Davis.


Everybody knows just how bad things got in California while you folks had a Grey Davis.

What you also failed to recognize in your insultive post, is that this state was at one time 90% registered Democrat. It was just over a decade ago.

You complain about 'neanderthal mentality', you are complaining about Democrats. Sorta like complaining about California's problems.
California Liberal
September 19, 2004   02:58 AM PDT
 
You're so lucky your state was able to prove it is filled with Neanderthals once again! You don't know how many of us would love to take the scissors and cut the South right off the map of the United States and let it freefall into nineteenth-century backwardness and poverty. By the way, liberals don't repeat what they hear on television: their political ideas are usually based on education and thought, unlike conservatives, whose thoughts are based on brainless bible-knocking and pseudo-patriotism. Thank the God that you use to squeeze out political gain at every turn that I live in a state where people are able to educate themselves in an open-minded environment.

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