Petition drive to repeal LGBT ordinance falls short
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Juan Perez Jr. and Erin Golden
The fate of Omaha's legal protections for gay and transgender residents won't be placed into voters' hands this spring.
A church-led effort to repeal the ordinance did not gather enough signatures in time to launch a referendum immediately, organizers said Thursday.
The Omaha Liberty Project, sponsor of the petition effort, needed to submit roughly 11,400 valid resident signatures to the city today to potentially force a vote in May's general election.
The group's volunteer petition circulators led months of signature gathering and community-organizing efforts, its leader said, but didn't collect enough signatures to account for potentially ineligible entries. The group has already missed a deadline to place the issue on the primary ballot.
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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130201/NEWS/702019912/1685#petition-drive-to-repeal-lgbt-ordinance-falls-short
eggplant
(3,912 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)We've got to be pretty darn close to the number we need, said Patrick Bonnett, the group's executive director and a member of the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District board.
Darn close, but we just didn't get it.
And yet no one asks, "So, Mr. Bonnett, approximately how many signatures did your group acquire?"
mikey_the_rat
eggplant
(3,912 posts)hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Socal31
(2,484 posts)I know that is often the case with these things, but that quote is bothering me this morning more than usual.
Someone, please slap me if I am out of bounds on this one, I have not had my coffee yet:
WHY IN THE WORLD IS THIS NOT JUSTIFICATION TO REMOVE THEIR TAX-EXEMPT STATUS???????