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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; same-sex marriage</title>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about the Prop. 8 ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/07/what-theyre-saying-about-the-prop-8-ruling-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My esteemed colleague Howard Mintz has the full story on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and you can read the opinion yourself (assuming the court&#8217;s website doesn&#8217;t get overloaded again) by clicking here. Meanwhile, here’s a treasury of quotes from elected officials. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy, taxes and Prop. 8 on ‘TWINC’</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/11/occupy-taxes-and-prop-8-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/11/occupy-taxes-and-prop-8-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on KQED&#8217;s &#8220;This Week in Northern California,&#8221; we talked about the Occupy movement&#8217;s status and future; new evidence of income disparities in California; and whether the movement has helped spur new moves toward tax increases here and around the world. Also, Scott Shafer led the discussion on this week&#8217;s Prop. 8 action before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Supreme Court to rule on Prop. 8 standing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/16/state-supreme-court-to-rule-on-prop-8-standing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/16/state-supreme-court-to-rule-on-prop-8-standing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court has just announced it will file a written opinion at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 17, in Perry v. Brown, the same-sex marriage case. The case involves whether an initiative measure&#8217;s official proponents have standing to defend that measure&#8217;s constitutionality when the public officials charged with that duty decline to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Committee OK&#8217;s Defense of Marriage Act&#8217;s repeal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/10/committee-oks-defense-of-marriage-acts-repeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/10/committee-oks-defense-of-marriage-acts-repeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage Campaign]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Jacobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 along party lines Thursday to approve Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law defining marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman. “DOMA was wrong when it passed in 1996 and it is wrong now,” Feinstein, D-Calif., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 contributions must be public, judge rules</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/20/prop-8-contributions-must-be-public-judge-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/20/prop-8-contributions-must-be-public-judge-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=17549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The identities of past, present and future contributors to committees that backed California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, must remain publicly disclosed, a federal judge ruled today. ProtectMarriage.com–Yes on 8 and the National Organization for Marriage-California had challenged the state Political Reform Act’s campaign disclosure requirements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s no NY, but CA still mulling same-sex rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/27/its-no-ny-but-ca-still-mulling-same-sex-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/27/its-no-ny-but-ca-still-mulling-same-sex-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New York State on Friday enacted a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, and while the California Legislature is somewhat stymied from following suit until courts figure out whether our state constitutional ban on the practice will stand, it is moving on other same-sex equality fronts. SB 651 by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage, state budget &amp; San Jose on ‘TWINC’</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/18/marriage-state-budget-san-jose-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/18/marriage-state-budget-san-jose-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” last night to discuss this week’s developments in the same-sex marriage wars. With me were KQED’s John Myers to discuss the state budget fiasco, and the Wall Street Journal’s Bobby White to discuss how San Jose is grappling with its monumental budget deficit.]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Pawlenty glitter-bombed by activists in SF</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/16/tim-pawlenty-glitter-bombed-by-activists-in-sf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/16/tim-pawlenty-glitter-bombed-by-activists-in-sf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 presidential election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty was sprinkled with glitter and confetti by a pair of gay-rights activists today in San Francisco. Pawlenty was attending the American&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2011 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center when he was approached by activists Nancy Mancias, 41, and Chelsea Byers, 24, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll numbers shift, ads launched on marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/09/poll-numbers-shift-ads-launched-on-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/09/poll-numbers-shift-ads-launched-on-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days after a recent poll showed Californians becoming more accepting of same-sex marriage, the national advocacy group Freedom to Marry is rolling out a “Why Marriage Matters” national ad campaign. The organization says the $10 million, three-year effort will be the largest-ever national public education campaign on this issue, launching Monday – Valentine’s Day – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldonado takes conservative heat on Prop. 8</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/09/14/maldonado-takes-conservative-heat-on-prop-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/09/14/maldonado-takes-conservative-heat-on-prop-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conservative group is calling Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, the Republican nominee to keep the job come November, “incompetent and dangerous” given his refusal to mount a legal defense of Proposition 8’s same-sex marriage ban while the governor is gone. The Capitol Resource Institute, a Sacramento-based conservative advocacy group, issued a news release last Friday [...]]]></description>
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