Voting today!!!!!!

Everyone please remember to vote today! If you live in Arizona, please, please vote NO ON 107 to save domestic partnerships, health care, and hospital visitation rights, and VOTE YES ON 204 to stop animal cruelty and give pregnant pigs and veal calves room to turn around and lay down in their cages!

This morning I woke up well before the ass-crack of dawn to stand at a polling place with a sign and literature for Vote No on 107. The polling places chosen by Arizona Together where our people are volunteering are the ones with a lot of traffic in the heart of enemy territory- we're talking Republican conservative central here. And yet, although there were many people who expressed general annoyance when I asked them if they wanted some literature, the vast majority of people who talked to me about which side they were going to be voting said that they were voting no! Yay! Of course, I wouldn't necessarily expect the people who disagreed with me and my big ass sign to actually say so to my face, but even the one single solitary person who said she was voting yes added, "But I admire you for standing out here." I got lots of "thank you for being out here!"s, lots of thumbs up, and lots of, "don't worry, I already voted/ will be voting NO!". It was so awesome. There were several negative experiences, but for every one negative experience there were five positive ones. Thank you to all of the people in Tucson, in Arizona, and that went to that particular polling place for your support and your vote! I feel about as positive as I can feel that we're going to win this one because of the compassion and intelligence of so many voters out here. Here's to being (I hope) the FIRST STATE TO DEFEAT A "MARRIAGE AMENDMENT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's to equality and a better world for all of us!