Meg Whitman, if elected governor, vows to defend Prop 8 in court

[keepCAblue]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said this afternoon that if elected governor, she would defend Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, by appealing a recent federal court ruling declaring the proposition unconstitutional.

Whitman made her clearest stand to date on the issue while speaking at the warehouse of Solar Gard Window Film in San Diego, hours before she's scheduled to address the California Republican Party's convention downtown.

During a brief news conference, the Bee asked Whitman whether she would defend Proposition 8 if elected governor. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken up the issue after Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of Northern California declared the measure unconstitutional earlier this month.

"The issue right now is, as I understand is 'Will Proposition 8 have the appropriate support to actually make an appeal to the circuit court of appeals?' " Whitman said. "And I think the governor, the attorney general today has to defend the constitution and has to enable the judicial process to go along and has to enable an appeal to go through. So if I was governor, I would give that ruling standing to be able to appeal to the circuit court."

The appeals court plans to hear the case in December, but Supreme Court appeals are planned by both sides, so Whitman would have plenty of time to intervene if she wins and takes office in January.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/08/meg-whitman-says-she-would-def.html#ixzz0xILAXscW

[ozymandius]

1. Because... nothing says freedom like oppression. n/t

[savalez]

2. I hope she loses. I don't trust her. I hop JB can pull this one off.

[dickthegrouch]

3. What is it with rethugs who don't understand EQUAL?

I think we should vote to take women's voting rights away. She's never voted anyway.
:sarcasm:

[HillWilliam]

5. Oh, they understand it alright, they just can't stand it

None of their rhetoric works without someone to hate.

If by some miracle Whitman makes it, I hope she does try to defend the indefensible. The puke side is losing ground fast on this issue and her stance is one more 40-penny railroad spike in the puke-party's heart. The louder they get, the more obvious it is to more people just how vile and crazy they are.

[msongs]

4. ...and slash government expenditures on welfare, medi-cal, and other things for those pesky poor nt

[RetiredTrotskyite]

6. This Bitch...

makes me want to puke! Sure hope Jerry wins, but if she wins and is dumb enough to defend the indefensible (Prop H8) it will be just one more nail in the haters' coffin

[Mimosa]

7. She's going to lose

Meg has the meanest face of nearly anybody I've ever seen.


Does she still have stock in e-Bay?

[NMMNG]

8. If she wins

we'll be fucked. Ah-nold will be a pleasant memory for us.