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 Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: [PROP8] 2009 Lobby Day a huge success! |
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| Equality California wrote: | Dear EQCA Member,
Yesterday, EQCA hosted the largest LGBT lobby day in California’s history. The deep commitment by activists who travelled from every part of the state to Sacramento and then trudge through the rain to ensure that their voices were heard was truly inspirational.
We lobbied to show the broad support for passage of the two resolutions before the legislature authored by Senator Mark Leno and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano and sponsored by Equality California.
These resolutions will make it the policy of the California Legislature that Prop 8 —and any future measure that seeks to eliminate a fundamental right from a protected group of Californians —is an invalid revision of the Constitution and must be passed by a two-thirds vote of both the Senate and Assembly prior to being sent to the voters.
Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter, both members of the Equality California Board of Directors, and I, testified in support of the measure at the Assembly Judiciary committee hearing. We were joined by LGBT individuals and allies— who shared their personal stories at the hearing—and leaders of labor, faith, grassroots and civil rights organizations.
The resolution passed by a 7 to 3 vote and now will move to the Assembly floor for a vote by the entire body. The Senate Judiciary committee is expected to soon take up the Senate resolution.
Please watch this video of the hearing. This is the work we do and a record of your friends and neighbors and fellow Californians creating the opportunities for all of us to win back marriage.
We also want to thank you for all of the work you’ve done in the past two weeks:
* Sent over 750,000 letters urging the legislature to support overturning Prop 8
* 36,000 people added their name to scroll on EQCA’s website to show their public support for the freedom to marry
* Thousands of conversations with people who may not be supportive using through the new Tell 3 campaign: www.tell-three.org
# Over $30,000 to support EQCA’s legislative work, including The Rally and Lobby Day to Overturn Prop 8
# And the thousands of phone calls to key members of the Senate and Assembly Judiciary committees to pass the resolutions (so many that they disconnected the phones!)
Thank you to Assemblymember Tom Ammiano for his leadership and the members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee who voted in support of the resolution yesterday:
* Chair Mike Feuer
* Julia Brownley
* Noreen Evans
* Dave Jones
* Paul Krekorian
* Ted W. Lieu
* William W. Monning
Thank you to LGBT Caucus members Assemblymember John A. Perez and Senator Mark Leno who joined the committee for the hearing.
And we also thank everyone who braved the rain to make Lobby Day such a success. We are indebted to them for their commitment to the cause!
In solidarity,
Geoff Kors
Executive Director
Equality California |
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