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10/02/2009
'Yes on 1's nonsense: Rivaling foliage as ME's most easy-to-spot fall yield
-The stock photos from a company with the (appropriate) phrase "monkey business" in its title.
-The lack of actual Mainers in the "yes on 1" ads.
-The issue of Charla Bansley, the private Christian school teacher, Concerned Women For America state director, and longtime friend of Maine's "pro-family" community who the "yes" campaign has deceptively positioned as a voice of Maine's public schools.
-The question of why the 8/13 Stand For Marriage rally was pointedly closed to any dissenting voice/media.
We've talked about all these things here at G-A-Y. But now in a new Portland Press Herald column, writer Bill Nemitz brings all of those issues as more to the mass of Mainers who don't read blogs:
The anti-repeal "No on 1" campaign overflows with real Mainers who are willing – no, make that eager – to go public in their support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
And the pro-repeal "Yes on 1" campaign? Not so much.
Real Mainers step up for 'No on 1' ads [PPH]
More than any campaign we've ever covered/worked on, this absolutely seems like one that our side cannot lose, just as long as a majority of Mainers are paying attention. We simply cannot see how SFMM's severely bumbled campaign (with more eyebrow-raisers every day) would ever sway an undecided voter. And in fact, the one-two punch of California and Maine (same script, different set of circumstances) might just become the double-hinged fulcrum that finally tips the marriage equality fight irreversibly towards our favor.
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