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CO: One Colorado Supports Republicans Who Voted for Civil Unions Bill

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Colorado’s statewide-LGBT advocacy organization is putting its money where its mouth is. One Colorado, the group leading the lobbying effort for civil unions here, has repeatedly pledged to support any lawmaker — Republican or Democrat — who supports relationship recognition legislation. This week, campaign finance reports show the group has made good on its promise.

Two Republican state senators, Jean White, R-Hayden, and Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, were gifted $1,000 each by One Colorado’s small donor committee.

Both women voted in 2011 for a bill that would have established civil unions. A third Republican senator, Nancy Spence, also voted for the Colorado Civil Union Act last year, but is term-limited. A similar bill will soon be debated this year.

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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WA: NOM Promises $250K to Defeat Republicans Who Vote for Marriage Equality

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

NOM LogoEarlier today, it looked like Republicans Fain (R-47) and Hill (R-45) were potential winners because they stood to benefit with a spike in contributions if they broke party ranks–as both are considering doing–and voted for the gay marriage bill. (The bill needs 25 votes and it’s currently shy by about one or two, with some conservative Democrats thinking of voting no and only two of the 22 Republicans (so far) supporting it.

Four Republican state senators in New York who pushed the state’s gay marriage bill over the top got a windfall in political contributions, according to the New York Times.

But no sooner than that news hit, this press release came across our desk from the National Organization for Marriage, a national anti-gay marriage lobbying group, pledging to spend $250,000 to beat any Republican who supports the bill in Washington State.

Full Story from PubliCola

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Profiles: Four Republicans Support Washington Marriage Equality Bill

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Tacoma Votes for Marriage EqualityWhen a little-known state senator became the first Republican in the Legislature to come out in favor of gay marriage, he was called a profile in courage. It’s always risky to be the first at anything. So in that sense the compliment fit.

But in a political sense, how brave was it really for Sen. Steve Litzow to back gay marriage? He represents Mercer Island — hardly a spot that is going to rise up and smite him, electorally speaking, for being pro-gay.

When it comes to political risk taking, Litzow was eclipsed the very next day. In what I would argue is a far more perilous move — and a much bigger blow to anti-gay-marriage forces — Reagan Dunn on Monday also said he supports allowing gays and lesbians to marry.

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Suze Orman: GOP Marriage Equality Policy a Dealbreaker

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Money guru Suze Orman has argued that marriage is a critical election issue for gay men and lesbians.

During an appearance on ABC’s The View, Orman said leading Republican presidential candidates won’t get her vote because they are opposed to the institution.

“Obviously, it is no secret that I’m gay,” Orman told the co-hosts. “So it is very difficult for me to look at any Republican nominee and go, ‘Oh, that’s who I want in office.’”

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CO: GOP Group Organizes to Fight for Civil Unions

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Colorado Civil UnionsRepublican leaders in Colorado have formed a group called Coloradans for Freedom to fight for civil unions there.

“The point is not to create conflict within the Republican Party,” one of the organizers, local attorney Mario Nicolais, told the Denver Post. “It is to provide resources to people interested in the conservative argument for civil unions.”

Civil unions passed the state’s Senate last year, but were squashed by a House panel, setting the stage for another legislative fight for the upcoming session. As lawmakers return to work, Coloradans for Freedom will hold a cocktail party headlines by former State Rep. Rob Witwer, a high-profile advocate for civil unions who frames his arguments as a matter of “human freedom.”

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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CO: Republicans Come Out for Civil Unions

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Colorado Civil UnionsSave the date: Jan. 5, 2012. That’s the day the debate on civil unions here will get a whole lot more interesting. A group of Colorado conservatives are having a coming out party. Coming out for civil unions, that is.

Organized in part by Republican strategist Kristin Strohm of the Starboard Group, Coloradans For Freedom, hope to make one thing clear: civil unions should become law and conservative values are 100 percent in line with this legislation. Mario Nicolais, the spokesman for the group released this statement to Out Front Colorado:

Coloradans for Freedom supports civil unions for the same reasons that we support the ideals of conservatism and limited government. We believe that free people should be free to make fundamental choices about how to live their lives without the interference of government.

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MN: Republicans Join Effort to Block Marriage Equality Ban

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Minnesota Gay Marriage Ban AmendmentA handful of Minnesota Republicans vowed Thursday to help defeat next year’s ballot measure that will ask voters to ban same-sex marriage in the state constitution.

“I’m a Republican because I believe in individual liberty and freedom,” said state Rep. John Kriesel, R-Cottage Grove, one of only four majority Republicans in the Minnesota House who in May voted against putting the question on next year’s ballot. “I believe this is an attack on that.”

Kriesel was joined at the press conference by Wheelock Whitney, a party eminence who unsuccessfully ran for governor for the GOP in 1982, and a handful of other Republicans, though Kriesel was the only current Republican elected official. Members of the group said they tried to build support among Republicans to help defeat the ballot measure and get out a message that being Republican doesn’t necessarily mean opposing gay marriage.

Full Story from NECN

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NY: To Get 4 Republican Votes on Marriage Equality, It Took 29 Democrats

Friday, July 8th, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot of articles about how the marriage campaign succeeded in New York. Two of the best were the recap by Michael Barbaro in the New York Times and Paul Schindler’s interview with Governor Cuomo.

A lot of focus is on the four GOP Senators who finally voted yes. But, the victory probably wouldn’t have happened if the Democratic caucus didn’t deliver 29 of its 30 votes.

In December of 2009, the vote was 24 – 38 against the marriage bill. During the 2010 cycle, two anti-marriage Democrats, Hiram Monserrate from Queens and William Stachowski from Buffalo, lost their seats to pro-marriage Dems, thanks, in part to the work of Fight Back NY.

Full Story from AmericaBlog

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NY Post: Seven Senate Republicans Ready to Vote for Marriage Equality

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they’re ready to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial and historic measure over the top this week, The Post has learned. A highly knowledgeable Senate insider said yesterday that “far more of the [GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, including some surprising names from conservative upstate areas.”

Among the unexpected potential Senate Republican “yes” votes, insiders say, are Kemp Hannon of Nassau County, Charles Fuscillo of Suffolk County, Betty Little of Glens Falls, Andrew Lanza of Staten Island, Greg Ball of Putnam County, James Alesi of Rochester, and Roy McDonald of Rensselaer County — all of whom helped defeat gay marriage when the vote was held in December 2009.

Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue, sources said.

Full Story from The NY Post

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NY: Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell Courting Republican Votes for Marriage Equality

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Daniel O'DonnellNew York state assemblymember Daniel O’Donnell, who introduced a marriage equality bill last week, said he expects more Republican support this year than when his chamber last voted on the measure in 2009.

“I expect more Republican support than we had last year,” said O’Donnell, in a reference to 2009, when the bill passed twice, including an 89-52 vote in May with support from five Republicans. Democrats maintain control of the assembly, but their leadership margin thinned somewhat in the November elections.

“We don’t have 89 committed ‘yes’ votes in our chamber, that is true,” said the gay Democrat from Manhattan, who added that he keeps an updated “color-coded chart” on the vote count. “But we certainly have more than we need to pass it and we still have a number of ‘maybes’ out there.”

Full Story from The Advocate

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