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In his very first press conference with LGBT publications and outlets California’s new speaker openly gay John Perez stated that on no uncertain terms the 2010 effort to repeal Prop 8 is dead as a doornail. According to the Bay Area Reporter, Perez said that there’s no practical way to repeal the state’s anti-same-sex marriage ban this year.

“I know people don’t want to hear that, but it is absolute reality,” says Perez.  “The money is not there and the signatures are not there to get it on the ballot in 2010. I don’t think the best environment to put it on the ballot is in 2010.”

We know this is harsh news for folks like Lester Aponte, one of the most vocal local backers of the signature gathering required to get the initiative on the 2010 ballot.  He and other folks we know worked really hard trying to get the sigs and drum up support. But we knew the last nail in the coffin was with Rick Jacobs announcement that Courage Campaign was pulling out.  An effort that big takes some serious institutional backing. Without it, we saw the campaigns days as numbered. And we were right.

Gotta hand it to them,  EQCA worked hard in blocking the success of a 2010 initiative.  Not that we have anything against Perez, but this announcement doesn’t surprise us coming from an openly gay California politician.  EQCA had the lockdown on gay lawmakers aka Mark Leno and crew long before this whole deal even started.  Not to mention the fact that EQCA has had the backing of most local LGBT Latino orgs for some time now concerning when to go back to the ballot with Prop 8.  Stands to reason Perez would echo their sentiments.  He’d be foolish not to.

For more details on this story go to this link: Perez calls 2010 Prop 8 repeal effort DOA

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Executives doing what they do best: Networking. Photo from the movie American Psycho

We’ve been meaning to get to this. And we know you’ve been waiting with halted breath. A couple of weeks ago RE 2010’s State Advisory Council (SAC) voted on the five individuals who they’ve chosen to serve as the campaign’s Executive Committee. We mentioned this event in an earlier post, Truthandhope.org Starts Own 2010 Marriage Equality Campaign; Says Existing Effort Doesn’t Support Grassroots.

But let’s talk about this for a sec.’ “Executive.” That—that word. It sounds so so—-Sex In The City-ish for some reason.  Like a Patrick Nagle portrait. Very ‘80s and Wall Street that word. Remember the movie American Psycho? Crazed. Dominant. Bloodthirsty evil coldblooded calculating white man in $600 dollar Armani suits—-with slicked back gelled hair and a yen for Whitney Houston and clueless blondes. We like that. It’s kinky. The word. Executive. Good name for a ruling committee of white folks, guys. Good call.

Now exactly what’s the executive committee’s role in all this we wonder.  We took at look at our pdf cheatsheet of the Davis Plan. But it didn’t really outline the duties of such marriage equality political royalty. We’ll just surmise that the executive committee tells people what to do. And they do it. Period. Fair enough.  Sounds like a nice faux grassroots set up with anointed lords and gilded gold scepters to boot no doubt—but hey—who’s criticizing? So let’s meet the five-headed monster, shall we?

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