making a difference

[totient]

A week and change ago, I spent three hours in MassEquality's headquarters calling residents of Angelo Puppolo's district in Springfield to ask them to call up his office and leave him voicemail saying they support equal marriage and asking him to vote no in constitutional convention. Eighteen people told me that they would, and I left messages on dozens of answering machines. I'd like to thank those eighteen people: Puppolo changed his vote and joined 150 other legislators in voting down the anti-gay-marriage amendment today. And I'd also like to thank the random guy on the street who found me outside the Diesel and convinced me to go make phone calls, and the eight or ten other people making phone calls that night, and the dozens of volunteers on other nights, and all the Mass Equality donors who paid for the calls. I don't have any of your names, and that's just fine, but I appreciate you all anyway.

Comments

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

note that Puppolo wasn't in the legislature in January and so the change is from what he said he would do, rather than what he did. Legislators who were around last time and changed their votes were Christine Canavan (D-Brockton), Paul Kujawski (D-Webster), Paul Loscocco (R-Holliston), Robert Nyman (D-Hanover), Richard Ross (R-Wrentham), James Valee (D-Franklin), Brian Wallace (D-South Boston), Gale Candaras (D-Wilbraham), and Michael Morrissey (D-Quincy).

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

you go ! thanks so much for the work !

[enheduanna13.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!!!!!

[dda.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I want it to get to a referendum vote so that the issue can be put to rest, once and for all; until the "people" speak, both sides are free to say whatever they want about what kind of popular support they have. And if anyone is in doubt about what kind of voter turn-out there would be, I strongly believe this is an issue that would indeed "rock the vote."

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

Thank you for helping to make it happen!