Posted on 07/07/2006 3:29:03 PM PDT by MikeA
SAN FRANCISCO - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides said Friday that if he unseats Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November he would sign a bill legalizing gay marriage in California.
Angelides talked about the issue the day after New York's high court upheld that state's one-man, one-woman marriage laws and as a California appeals court prepared to consider whether a trial judge erred in declaring the state's marriage laws unconstitutional.
"I would sign the marriage equality bill because I believe if we can get behind people to build a lasting relationship, that is a good thing," Angelides said at a news conference where Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., urged voters to support him.
The California Legislature last year became the first lawmaking body in the nation to legalize gay marriage. Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill, saying it was up to voters or the courts, not lawmakers, to settle the matter.
The measure's sponsor, Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, plans to reintroduce it in December after the election.
Clinton, who does not support gay marriage, refused to answer questions about Thursday's court ruling in her home state, but made a brief pitch on Angelides' behalf.
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Won't matter to the ilk herd, at all. If they're not of the fifth columnist stripe they are of the 'punish the evil cagop' by not voting republican. The ones who 'endlessly complain' know what they're doing. Disrupting!
Are you making this stuff up?
Per the California Constitution (article V, section 13), the AG is the "chief law officer of the State."
He does not answer to the Governor.
He is answerable to the electorate.
The governor is the chief executive of the law in California is he not?? How does he accomplish that if not through use of the AG?? Does he have some private militia he can use? Because Lockyer is elected DOES NOT MEAN he does not answer to the man tasked with executing the law in California. The federal attorney general, though yes he is appointed, is also the "chief law enforcement officer" of the federal govt. That does not render him unanswerable to the president. To try to justify Lockyer putting ideology over doing his job means you've drank of his Koolaid.
You're innocent, right? You just appear to favor Angelides. Constant complaining, indeed.
No. He is not. Read the constitution. I already gave you the citation and the quote. Be sure to also read some articles during this debacle. Lockyer was backed up by plenty of legal experts saying that Arnold could no more direct the AG on this issue than he could try to tell a court what to do.
The whole gay marriage debacle was clearly a stunt to embarrass the governor. Arnold tried to walk a fine line and appear to be doing something and not ticking people off. Short of calling out the "militia", per his constitutional powers, there was little he could do.
facts know no party lines. it's on the record and his signatures are on the legislation, i didn't sign it and I won't vote for Phil. so go blow.
Are you voting for Arnold?
Oh my! Cornel West is on the job for Angelides? Wonderful!
Judge Kramer was appointed Dec. 3, 1996, by Pete Wilson, not Arnold.
No and that never was the point, and never anything I said!
Looks like me and calcowgirl have been doing all the research for you.
Hey, with Mulholland advising Angelides, how can he lose?
Can we use this to get out the vote?
Seems to me that Angeledes is the poster boy of all that is wrong with the democrat party of CF.
He is FOR higher taxes.
He is FOR pay for access (see developers)
He is FOR union choking out business
He is FOR imposing homosexuals on marriage
In essense he is anti-truth, anti-justice, and very anti-american way.
They need to amend their state constitution to protect real marriage. Obviously the legislature there is so arrogant it feels free to flaunt the voters who approved a statutory law a couple of years ago limiting marriage to one man and one woman.
You know I'm even wondering if that would work, seeing how the judges are so out of control there. Soon their own Constitution will become unconstitutional!
You mean the faux-bull has been doing all the research for you. Thats your problem.
It won't be PHil for sure , but of course, who cares in the (M)ilk crowd.
Maybe you can just Doodle me in the Undecided column for giggles.
That would be right next to the DICC column or whatever you've come up with lately to taunt folks drumup votes.
Too bad the Ca GOP has disintegrated so badly (this ain't Ronald Reagan's GOP, more like Rockefeller's) that it has to have folks try and implement enforced voting, all the while running a candidate that is so Left and trying to plead its centrist, I fail to see how the little "Right" he exhibits is worth the cost&debt so far, otherwise it'd be a much easier decision.
Actually, yes.
Doodle, the only reason you want to know is so you can mock someone who is exercising their constitutional right to cast a ballot as they see fit.
I find it hardly likely that there is any other reason for you asking. btw, Having voted for GOP Gub candidates for years, you think this is an easy decision?
The fact that people are ridiculed here, longstanding FR folks included (and in the (M)ilk's eye, "faux conservatives") too, mind you, is in evidence every day. I think many forget this is a conservative and not Republican site, and while the predominant thought is vote Republican, California is a very special case as we are not looking at what used to be traditional Republicans anymore, but more a DEm LIte as a choice for Gub.
It is one of the reasons so many are turned off by the current Ca GOP 'power uber alles at any cost don't sweat the details!' direction it has sought to take.
Just hope his lead holds and whatever votes have gone away don't affect the outcome. I can live with the results either way, something which a lot of folks here do not seem to be able to claim the same, for whatever particular reasons or agenda.
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