Reply #347: Schwarzenegger Appoints Anti-Gay To Head Transition [View All]

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you don't live in california...do you?

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(Los Angeles, California) Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed conservative Republican Congressman David Dreier to head his transition team.

Schwarzenegger won a landslide election Tuesday night in a vote that saw the ouster of gay-positive governor Gray Davis (story)

Following the announcement of Dreier's appointment, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center invited the governor-elect to a meeting with the state's gay and lesbian leaders.

"One of the quickest ways for the governor-elect to show that he is not playing 'politics as usual' is to meet with this core component of California's constituency," said Lorri L. Jean, director of the center.

Schwarzenegger has not commented on the invitation

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2nd Suit To Kill Calif. Gay Partner Law
by Matt Johns
365Gay.com Newscenter
Los Angeles Bureau



Posted: September 26, 2003 11:23 a.m. ET


(Los Angeles, California) A conservative Christian group has filed suit to block California's new domestic partner law from taking effect.

The Campaign for California Families filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that the law, set to come into effect January 1, 2005, seeks to circumvent state law barring same-sex marriage.

In 2000, voters passed Prop. 22 which says "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in the state of California.'

The new domestic partner law, signed September 19 by Gov. Gray Davis, extends to gay couples most of the rights traditionally accorded to heterosexually married people, but does not go so far as to give gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. (story)

It is the second suit that seeks to prevent the law from coming into effect. One day after Davis signed the legislation, the man who pressed for Prop. 22, Republican state Sen. Pete Knight launched a suit in Sacramento County Superior Court court. (story)