Imperial County, Calif., passes *emergency motion* to support Prop. 8 [View All]

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Source: Associated Press

Imperial County officials want to join the sponsors of California's gay marriage ban in defending Proposition 8 during an upcoming trial.

The Imperial County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of an emergency motion Tuesday to intervene in the case. Supervisors say the county's participation is needed because Attorney General Jerry Brown supports overturning the voter-approved measure, while Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken a neutral position on it.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/15/state/n172126S51.DTL&tsp=1

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Perhaps the supervisors should spend more time worrying about their current countywide unemployment rate of 30.0% and less time worrying about teh gay.