The campaign to preserve Bowling Green’s LGBT-inclusive equality ordinances appears to be winning, but the contest will be close, and additional resources are needed. How the measures stand with voters won’t be known until Election Day, said campaign director Kim Welter. “There has been no poll, and that’s been because we cannot afford one.”
Welter then explained that, based on the conversations that campaign volunteers are having with voters as they canvass, the ordinances are winning in three of the city’s four wards, and losing slightly in the most conservative one.
The two measures, passed in August 2009, were challenged by a petition campaign that put them on the November 2 ballot. They are the only LGBT issues on any U.S. ballot in this election, so the campaign has drawn attention on both sides.
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