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Camp Courage: Winning Back Marriage a by Telling Painful Stories

This weekend's Camp Courage in Sacramento was a good tonic for the loss in Maine and part of our collective path forward to restoring marriage equality to California. The heart of Camp Courage is learning how to craft your "story-of-self" a personal, ...

From JULIA ROSEN, ONLINE POLITICAL DIRECTOR, Courage Campaign,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvey Milk,  Mike Carey

Loss and Resolve: Lessons from Maine

A year ago I knew what went wrong and I knew how to fix it. A year later, I don't know what went wrong. I don't know how to fix it. We had the money. We had a stable campaign. We had the a robust well-oiled field campaign. We had a strong campaign ...

From JULIA ROSEN, ONLINE POLITICAL DIRECTOR, Courage Campaign,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Coffers are dry in Maine: We need you

(on loan from the Courage Campaign in Maine) The Yes on 1 campaign just issued a "red alert" last night, raising their ad buy by $25,000 today. I'm here in the No on 1 campaign boiler room (nerve center) and our coffers are dry after having invested in ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  2 Nov 2009

Courage Volunteers Hit the Ground in Maine

11 of our amazing Deputy Field Organizers and Equality Team members have come out to Maine, as part of the Volunteer Vacation program to work insane campaign ours until the polls close. They arrived over the weekend and have been put to work for No on ...

From JULIA ROSEN, ONLINE POLITICAL DIRECTOR, Courage Campaign,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rachel Maddow

Will we lose our 31st state?

In 19 days we will know whether we beat back NOM and the Catholic Dioceses and protected marriage equality for Mainers, or took yet another step backwards at the ballot box for equality. 30 states have had votes on marriage equality since 1998 and the ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barbra Streisand,  Joan Osborne,  RIAA,  Angus King

Going on Offense in Maine

Yesterday, the No on 1 campaign released this great new ad, featuring a Catholic mom who wants nothing more than for her gay son to have the same rights as everybody else. “Everybody knows the Catholic Church is opposed to counterfeit marriages. The ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: The Church (musician)

Homosexual Rose-Colored Glasses

Greetings from Maine! I arrived on a red-eye yesterday to help out Maine's "No on 1" campaign to protect marriage equality. Everyone around here is pumped up, but they just crunched the numbers for their quarterly fundraising goals. As of a few minutes ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  28 Sep 2009

Recycled Lies from the Yes on 1 Campaign in Maine

And, this is a Prop 8 ad from last fall in California: The same consultants behind Prop 8 were hired for exactly this, drive up fear about marriage equality using lies about kids and churches. It goes without saying that Maine does not force school to ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  23 Sep 2009

Say No to Manchester: Boycott Continues

Doug Manchester played a relatively unsung, but crucial role in qualifying Prop 8 for the ballot. His $125,000 donation came in at a critical time when the proponents were running out of cash during the signature gathering process. "The bar ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Calitics,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Lambda Legal

Poll Results: Save marriage equality in Maine

Dkos released yesterday the first public polling numbers on Ballot Question 1 in Maine, which asks voters if they want to repeal the marriage equality law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. We are up by the narrowest of margins: 46 ...

From JULIA ROSEN, Crooks and Liars,  19 Sep 2009

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