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Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:50 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:40
Voters will, schmoters will. If Democrats were going to void the will of the people in California in the courts, why’d they even bother lifting a finger to oppose the marriage proposition in the first place. Seems like they wasted their money. Oh wait – they’re Democrats – that’s what they do. From the Los Angeles Times:
With almost 11 million ballots tallied, Proposition 8 had 52.3% of the vote to 47.7%. Although many ballots remain to be counted, the 500,000-vote spread is viewed as insurmountable.
“The citizens of California rely on the Legislature and the courts to safeguard against unlawful discrimination by temporary, and often short-lived, majorities,” the legislators said in the document, written by attorneys at the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
“This is a Hail Mary, no question about it,” said Frank Schubert, manager of the Proposition 8 campaign.