Petition efforts raise eyebrows - Gay-nuptial foes hire Calif. consulting

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Opponents of gay marriage, while looking ahead to a weekend of signature-gathering, have hired a California political consulting firm that's a veteran of conservative causes. The effort would be to help collect petitions to get a proposed ban on same-sex marriage on the 2008 ballot.

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Lara Szent-Gyorgyi said she was returning items Saturday at Wal-Mart in Natick when she noticed someone outside the store gathering names for a separate ballot initiative, one that would allow the sale of wine in supermarkets. Szent-Gyorgyi said she had signed, and had then been asked to sign a few other petitions, but she said she had not been told what they were for. One was the gay-marriage petition.

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Risa Sacks said she experienced something similar at a Price Chopper supermarket in Worcester on Wednesday.

She said that when she signed the wine initiative, a woman who was collecting names told her that she needed to sign somewhere else, too. Only when she pressed, Sacks said, was she told that the second signature was for the gay-marriage question

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The pro-gay marriage group MassEquality sent out an e-mail message Wednesday asking for reports of such irregularities.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/09/30/gay_nuptial_foes_hire_calif_consulting_firm/

Oh, we're so f#$%ing righteous in our cause, it's ok to lie and cheat to get it passed.

[Ian David]

1. Let's keep this kicked.

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