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the G-man said:
Schwarzenegger to decide on gay marriage

    HISTORIC VOTE: California lawmakers became the first in the country to approve a bill allowing same-sex marriages.

    UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could veto the measure, though. He has said the issue should be decided by voters or the courts.

    CURRENT RIGHTS: California already gives same-sex couples many of the rights and duties of marriage if they register with the state as domestic partners.




This will be a very tough call for the Guvrnator. Whatever choice he makes, he's fucked. He signs it, he loses the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, and the Southern Coastal counties from OC to the Mexican boarder. A veto will cost him dearly in Los Angeles, the largest population region in the in the state. It won't cost him much in the San Francisco Bay Area either way. He was never popular up here.

The question is does he want to pursue a national agenda or retain the governorship? Signing it will kill his chances with fundy Republicans. The veto will kill him in the state race. To get elected to statewide office you've got to carry at least one of the population centres: LA or SF. His chances respectivly are slim to none with the veto.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.