Florida Red & Blue picks up money & staff
Florida Red & Blue, the group that's fighting Amendment 2, which would put into the Constitution a ban against recognizing same-sex marriage and civil unions in Florida, has picked up new staff including: Michael Kenny, deputy manager; Craig T. Smith, general consultant who was a former Clinton White House political director; Marcia Monserrat, South Florida political and finance; Jay Lasita, Central Florida field leader who was a St. Petersburg City Council member and Doug Sterner, South Florida field leader.
Jeffrey Garcia of Rindy/Miller Media, Joe Fuld of MSHC Partners and Pierson Grant Public Relations are the campaign's communications outfit.
Also, the group touts raising $470,000 in campaign contributions for the past fundraising cycle.
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please vote against amendment 2.
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 02:52 PM
Join the facebook group...great way to get involved and stay informed.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8464086046
Posted by: Straight but not Narrow | July 24, 2008 at 02:54 PM
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70194
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Tell the far right fundamentalists that Floridians will not live by their narrow intepretation of what they think the Bible says - VOTE NO ON 2!
Posted by: Dave | July 24, 2008 at 03:21 PM
Meet John Stemberger, the man behind Amendment 2: http://progressflorida.org/page/content/stemberger
Posted by: J.B. | July 24, 2008 at 03:38 PM
tell the far left that Floridians will not live with their democracy being eroded by activist judges!
Vote Yes on 2
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 03:44 PM
Define "activist" judge, 344p.....those who grant folks more freedom...
Or the Supreme Court justices who helped grant us 8 years of hell by deciding that Bush should be the hand puppet pResident with Dick's hand up inside his yin yang pulling the strings..
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 04:41 PM
waiting for the self-loathing, deeply-closeted homosexuals to begin telling how awful and evil homosexuality is.....
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 04:41 PM
3:38 Don't you wonder at the apparent contradiction of Stemberger
On the Irish- In a suit against Dollar Rent-A-Car Stemberger characterized the Irish as hopelessly tethered to pubs and pints and unfit to drive the highways of America, and then referring to GALLAGHER when he was running against Crist for governor as “a choice between good and evil, Lucifer and the Almighty.”
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 07:12 PM
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS: WORDS TO LIVE BY.
Posted by: | July 24, 2008 at 07:13 PM