A friend of mine attended the California Republican Party Convention in Anaheim this weekend. He reported that they failed to meet quorum, which is embarrassing. More interesting was the fact that “Republicans Against Prop. 8” stickers were in abundance. Can this be true?
Yes! Here is what this organization has to say about itself, on its website: “Republicans Against 8 is a Campaign Committee of concerned California Republicans who believe in limited government, personal responsibility, the maintenance of Constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms, and in protecting California’s business climate.”
So who is behind this new organization? “Republicans Against 8 was founded by the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest coalition of gay and lesbian Republicans, and their allies. The Log Cabin Republicans were founded in 1978, when they joined with Gov. Ronald Reagan to fight Proposition 6, the “Briggs Amendment,” which would have banned gay and lesbian Californians from teaching in public schools.”
Kudos to the Log Cabin Republicans for breaking away from the rest of their party to battle Prop. 8! As I stated in an earlier post, if marriage is sacred enough to warrant backing Prop. 8, why don’t its backers fund a ballot measure to make divorce illegal?
Now that’s what I’d call some mavericks!
Thanks for a refreshing post!
Good news on the Prop 8 challenge. I wondered about the Log Cabin Club and what effort if any they would mount in this campaign. Usually they seem to be more behind the scenes and never in conflict with mainstream GOP issues in public in my memory. Perhaps they might want to partner with the Elanore Roosevelt Democratic Club to help get the word out. The Pro 8 folks have been to my door twice (obviously not a targeted walk). So while this is good news the campaign has a long way to go in the final weeks. I’m suspecting that we have that silent majority thing going again so it will be anyone’s guess who will get out to vote and how they will actually vote.
Art. I was there and spent some time with your friends Saturday evening. In fact one was a good guy that we each know and like from Santa Ana who is surely not a Reep.
While there were stickers available for free on several ballot measures, I did not see too many attendees wearing same.
Larry,
Next time be sure to stop by the Log Cabin suite! You would have seen a few of the stickers there I would imagine…
Art.
Did you expect to see me at their suite? I was at the convention for a few hours in the morning and again in the evening. Former Juice bloggers only showed up at night. Rest assured these stickers were not seen on the hundreds of Republicans that I passed on Sat.
Larry,
So you were there in the morning and in the evening, but not during the day? Well that explains it. The folks with the stickers must have been there when you weren’t!