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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo same-sex marriage in Wash. state without public vote, senator (D) says
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/01/08/no-same-sex-marriage-without-vote-senator/Same-sex marriage will not become law in Washington without voter approval, an influential state senator told a raucous Saturday town meeting on Whidbey Island packed with gay rights supporters.
I will tell you they will not have the votes in the state Senate without a vote of the people, said state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano, a 20-year veteran of the Legislatures upper chamber.
Haugen represents a Republican-leaning Island and Skagit County district that includes liberal pockets, notably South Whidbey, as well as very conservative Oak Harbor. She is usually its only Democratic legislator.
... I must represent the entire 10th District and we have a lot of evangelicals . . ., Haugen began.
William769
(55,147 posts)That don't have equal rights under the law. Wait whats wrong with that statement.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)the majority to vote for civil rights for the minority. Yeah, that'll work really well. What a F'ed place this is ...
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)and a Democrat she is NOT.
She regularly trashes Union labor every chance she gets.
She is rude, arrogant and basically a back-stabbing b***h. Your basic DINO on steroids.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Always best to get such news from the neighborhood, as it were. Thanks for sharing the info.
Julie
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)If she runs again, we hope to "primary" her ass. (she may hunker down though, since she has "domestic" problems with her husband and his history of a sexual harassment suit against him)
Her shenanigans run deep and are troubling. Actually, an audit should be done regarding her involvement with Washington State Ferries and Nichols Brothers Shipyard.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.