"Next year won't be the best time, and the year after won't be. There's midyear elections, mayoral elections and governor elections. There will never be the best time. It's the same script."—Gavin Newsom
It was going to happen anyway; in May, gays in Massachusetts start being able to marry, and the earliest that can be repealed is 2006. Newsom merely assured that it didn't happen on Bush (or more likely, Rove's) schedule, which I suspect was a good thing.
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Re: When We Can Win, That's When