IMPORTANT Re: [statecom-discuss] Equal Marriage Con Con

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

This thursday will be the first meeting of the state's constitutional 
convention for this session- the legislature of Massachusetts (both houses) serve as 
the state's constitutional convention.   The anti-marriage amendment (changing 
our constitution to say marriage is one-man-one-woman) needs 50 votes in this 
session to move forward to the popular ballot.   Were it to move, it would be 
put on the November 2008 ballot.

The Constitutional Convention actually last two years, so they could 
potentially put the vote off till they meet in the fall - But that is not guaranteed 
and we need a vote of less than 50 to go on record so this is over.   Right now 
they may have as many as 57 votes to still move forward - so we need to turn 
probably at least 8 votes.

Were this to go on the ballot, we will become THE battleground state in 2008 
- some people only think hundreds of millions of Christian right money will 
pour into the state - I am figuring billions.   Nothing else we care about will 
move in this state.   Our Republican Party will go from being real 
conservatives who are socially pretty liberal, to being dominated by the pro-corporate, 
socially narrow Republicans of the rest of the country.

and we will be subjected to a vicious hate campaign comparable to the height 
of Jim Crow.   And the most right wing forces in this country will get 
energized in a way we have not seen in my adult life time anyway.

No matter what you care about here, in the next two days - you must call both 
your rep & senator.   tell them this is not to go to ballot - you don't 
really even care their personal opinion, they cannot open the door to a flood of 
hatred in our state.   They cannot show up on thursday and vote to put this on 
the ballot.

I know we get asked to call all the time.   This time, do it!

Statehouse: 617-722-2000 if you don't know your rep or senator's phone 
numbers.   Or google them on line.   Or go to the Secretary of State's website and 
find the screen on "where to vote", enter your address and it will tell you who 
your representative and senator are.

Love, Grace
In a message dated 6/11/07 8:21:49 AM, mikeheichman at verizon.net writes:


> Oh Kay
> 
> Mike
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Merelice merelice at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:15:04 -0400
> To: statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: Re: [statecom-discuss] Equal Marriage Con Con
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is the second reference I've read recently to Con Con. Since it's
> awfully close to ComCom, I wasn't sure what was meant. This time,
> given the juxtaposition with equal marriage, I have figured out it
> stands for Constitutional Convention. I am regularly getting emails
> that assume we all know what certain acronyms (this week's example was
> ISBCC) and abbreviations stand for and what they are all about.
> Especially for newcomers, along with some of us old-timers, it can
> come across as unwelcoming or unfriendly. Let's try to be alert to
> being clear in our communications.
> 
> Thanks,
> Merelice
> 
> On 6/10/07, Mike Heichman <mikeheichman at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Hi State Comm. Members
> >
> > Is anybody on top of this issue? What are people being asked to do?
> > Contacting legislators? Demo at the State House? Etc.
> >
> > If anybody knows, can they send info out ASAP to this list and as many
> > GRP lists as possible?
> >
> > Mike Heichman
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