Gay-partnership foes challenge campaign laws
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October 27, 2009 - 02:53 PM

By CURT WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer

TACOMA (AP) — Opponents of stronger legal partnerships for gay couples must abide by Washington state’s campaign finance laws while a lawsuit challenging those laws’ constitutional footing moves ahead, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The lawsuit was filed by a week-old political action committee called Family PAC, part of a socially conservative Lynnwood political group called the Family Policy Institute of Washington.

Family PAC is opposed to Referendum 71, a ballot measure asking voters to approve or reject a new law that would significantly broaden state domestic partnership rights for gay couples and unmarried seniors.

Family PAC’s lawsuit argues that two state campaign finance laws violate constitutional free speech rights: A ban on donations above $5,000 in the three weeks before Election Day, and a requirement to identify everyone who contributes more than $25.

On Tuesday, the committee was asking for an emergency suspension of those laws, arguing that supporters’ free speech rights would be irreparably harmed if the ban and disclosure requirements remained in place for the campaign’s final week.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton refused the request, saying Family PAC hadn’t shown strong enough evidence to justify such an intrusion.





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Hope and change…

Posted October 28, 2009 - 04:00 AM by Stimulus

Men rule the planet.  They’ll do and say anything to get their way.

Hope and change

Darwin bless you all

Posted October 28, 2009 - 03:51 AM by Stimulus

GB will start it on his “I’ll return”

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