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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMay 14th, 2008
Illinois opponents to same-sex marriage failed to collect enough signatures to put an advisory referendum on the November ballot. Protect Marriage Illinois (PMI) had said that they would turn in 300,000 signatures to the state’s Board of Elections by the May 5 deadline. Supporters needed 270,000 valid signatures, but they did not file in time for the deadline.
This is the second time PMI failed to collect enough signatures. An earlier effort in 2006 failed also.
The advisory referendum would have asked the state legislature to amend the constitution to bar same-sex marriage.
Update: I neglected to include a link to the source.
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queerunity
May 14th, 2008
i didnt even know they were collecting
Jason D
May 14th, 2008
yeah, never saw anything about this, and I live in Chicago.
Timothy Kincaid
May 14th, 2008
Sorry guys, perhaps I should have posted about this.
But it was a petition to get a non-binding resolution on the ballot which, if it passed, would request but not require that the legislature prepare an amendment resolution to be placed before the voters to ban gay marriage. All of this, without any significant support in Illinois.
Joel
May 14th, 2008
Your link does not work.(none of the two)
Stefano
May 14th, 2008
Joel:
I wasn’t able to get the posted links to work either. Neither for the original web site, nor the link that is redirected.
Doing a google search I was able to find a cached page here. I believe the original article was posted sometime in April and then retrived around May 10th.
Stefano
May 14th, 2008
Note: The above link to the cached page is for an April 15th article. I don’t think it’s what Jim was posting where the article said they failed to collect enough signatures. However, this article does give enough information that you might be able to track down the PMI petition.
Ephilei
May 14th, 2008
The additional good news is that LeBarbera and whomever else wasted their time, effort, and funds all for nothing, resources that could have actually done damager elsewhere.
Jim Burroway
May 14th, 2008
Very confusing. I don’t know what happened. The link worked fine earlier this morning. It was an article dated, I think, May 6th.
Here’s another link.
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