Umbrella Group Created to Coordinate Prop 8 Repeal in 2010

More than 80 activists from across California met last Saturday as part of the California Coalition for Marriage Equality, an ad-hoc group comprised of more than 75 organizations across the state that are dedicated to the single and common goal of restoring marriage equality in California as quickly as possible. The group met at San Francisco State University to create a structure for the signature gathering effort that would restore marriage equality in California in 2010. The morning began with a keynote address from Ace Smith, noted California political strategist whose resume includes statewide ballot initiatives and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. “This is a civil rights movement,” Smith explained to the activists who attended the conference. “You can’t script it. You have to let people go. They have to be able to organize freely, let themselves go. Capturing lightning in a bottle, it either happens or it doesn’t. You have to let it happen. It’s what you’re seeking to achieve, but you don’t do it by planning a typical campaign.” Activists quickly got to work after Smith’s speech. Five proposals, generated from around the state, were presented, and followed by several hours of discussion. The conclusion of that debate was the adoption of a comprehensive statewide signature gathering structure dubbed the Davis Plan, named after the hometown of one of the authors. Full Story from The Examiner

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