The self-appointed A-Listers who ran the anti-Prop 8 campaign in California now say it was done poorly, which is why they need to be even more hands-on the next time:
Lorri Jean, CEO of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, said that the hope was that the campaign committee representing a number of gay and lesbian organizations "could make sure that things relevant to our community were done," but that didn't happen.
"We have to find a completely different way to do this next time," she added.
Even Geoff Kors of California Marriage Equality, the public face of the No on 8 campaign, admitted there were plenty of problems with the effort, which ended with the same-sex marriage measure passing on a 52 percent to 48 percent vote.
"The biggest mistake is we turned everything over to professional consultants, and we would never do that again," he said. "We should have been in the strategy room with them."
But the apologies weren't enough for many in the audience, who accused the anti-Prop. 8 campaign of wasting money, ignoring grassroots volunteers, and refusing to target African Americans, Latinos and people outside the state's urban centers in their efforts...
Fifty-one percent of California voters polled said they believed that Prop. 8 was "unfair, unnecessary and wrong"; 44 percent disagreed. Likewise, 50 percent agreed that the measure would "allow discrimination against some groups and individuals," compared with 45 percent who felt the opposite way.
But Prop. 8 still got 52 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile,
after eight years of war on a credit card, the GOP plans to double down as the No Party :
-House Minority Leader John Boehner said some things in the administration's stimulus plan, like infrastructure spending, made sense while others (money to states for schools) just didn't. "I just think there's a lot of slow-moving government spending in this program that won't work," the Ohio Republican said on NBC. "We can't borrow and spend our way back to prosperity."
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