Sunday, May 21, 2006

Won't this get the warhawks wound up?

George Hesselberg in the Wisconsin State Journal:
Exactly a year after the Wisconsin Green Party announced it would sponsor a campaign that ultimately resulted in 24 successful anti-war advisory referendums across the state, the effort continues.

Voters in at least two communities - and as many as 20 - may join those in Ozaukee County and the city of Milwaukee this November in giving their opinions on U.S. military activities, according to organizers of this spring's referendum campaign...

The Racine Coalition for Peace & Justice started its petition drive May 5 at a popular community pancake breakfast, gathering more than 800 of the 3,105 signatures necessary to get their question on that city's November ballot. In Fond du Lac, organizers are hoping to get their petition drive started soon.
As long as we'll already be at the polls to vote down the death penalty and the ban on gay marriages and domestic partnerships, why not go for the trifecta and vote to end the war, too?

I happen to think the right wing and Republican Party (they are not synonymous, but almost) outsmarted themselves with the anti-gay and pro-death penalty referenda. They may have just the opposite effect of what they intended and bring the golden coalition --liberals, progressives,lefties, moonbats, socialists,anarchists, Democrats, Greens, and mainstream churchgoers -- out of the woodwork to vote these down. All the more reason for Mark Green and his cohorts to keep working to make it as hard as possible to register and vote.

1 Comments:

At 2:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not sure where Al got his data, but, if I remember right (it's been awhile) every state I looked at except Utah, the gay amendments on the ballot outpolled Bush in 2004.

 

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