Did Jesse Connolly Just Threaten Yes on 1 Voters?

I don't know any other way to take that comment but as a threat.

the names of yes on one donors is already posted on a blog from California. This is not California...BRING IT....

Sour grapes from the Dodge and Weave Master.

Poorly played, Connolly.

For a group preaching tolerance, they themselves are rather intolerant of anyone with a different viewpoint.

So you guys really think that it was meant as a THREAT? Seriously? Wow... First gay marriage is going to hurt our kids and now the gay campaign is going to come to our houses and what? Try to speak to you? Oh no!!!!! Are you afraid of them having a conversation with you and getting their gay-cooties all over you? Grow up.

I would like to have a conversation with them and point out how intolerable they are.

Can you seriously take his statement that way Domino? The intent of the statement was intimidation and a threat to harrass people.

Uh-huh. Sure.

I would think it far more likely that Connolly simply misspoke in a moment of disappointment and frustration. He's generally smarter than that.

If there's any indication that the apparent threat is carried out, however, that's a very different story.

I don't rule out this possibility, and it's one of the reasons I voted in favor of question 1: the gay marriage folks did a pretty terrific job of advancing images of happy loving families that just want to be left alone, but they've also engaged in some mighty underhanded and nasty tactics (not that the Yes on 1 side has entirely clean hands - the baiting going on on the Press Herald's comment section related to the story this morning is deplorable). But for the nonce, I'm willing to give Connolly the benefit of the doubt.

"misspoke"? riiight. That's been their effort for months. Can anyone tell me the reason, other than harassment and intimadation, of why homosexual activists in other states have posted names, addresses, phone numbers and amounts of support given online, often tied to Google maps to make them even more easy to find? Sounds like Connolly's new mission in life.....

EI said - "I would think it far more likely that Connolly simply misspoke in a moment of disappointment and frustration."

Thanks for this friendly dose of reality...a pleasant change when compared to Apollo's ignorant assumptions of intent.

I think the best evidence of "mis-speaking" or a poor choice of words is the fact that we all used secret ballots yesterday and it would be very difficult to follow through on this "threat." He was just pissed off.

I don't think you can get Gay Cooties... Doesn't work that way.

One thing to remember though Joe - they've been wanting to get their hands on the petition signatures that put the issue on the ballot in the first place. And like Traci pointed out, they are already posting information on blogs about donors.

These people actually thought they were going to win? and they almost pulled it off and now that their chance is gone it's retribution time. grow up indeed Domino

Connolly threatened to seek out every voter; the lies about children and lawsuits have already been told by No on 1 (see Wendell v Sullivan) and rejected; Maine voters joined the large majority citizens of 30 prior states who also carry around the "prejudices" of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and each and every other previous generation; this represented Obama's biggest victory of the day, seeing as he campaigned as being opposed to homosexual marriage (didn't The One also win by a margin of 6 points?); this was a big blow to Jess Connolly's progressive movement, proving that perhaps LBGTQWTF issues do exist in a silo of their very own; Maine voters did not buy the race card, the equality card, the civil rights cards, or the benefits card; the electorate will overtly resent continued efforts to make us all pay special, relentless attention to this very isolated special interest group; I thought gay cooties was genetic.

It would be appropriate for the Bishop to ex-Communicate Baldacci and all the other Catholic public officials who broke ranks with Church doctrine on this matter of protecting one of the Church's most blessed sacraments.

Anyone who thinks "in your face agenda pushing" will stop is an idiot; the same kind of idiot who believed that if Q1 was defeated, gay activism would end, because there's nothing else they could want.

Besides, the legislature will in all likelihood pass another bill with the same content, and JEB will sign it. There is not a teaspoon of integrity in this species of politics.

And since I assume you consider a re-introduction of LD 1020 to be a bad thing, I can only conclude that you would feel similarly about a re-introduction of TABOR. Right?

I believe that the same bill can not be submitted again until the next Legislature is seated in 2011, so it won't be the cafeteria Catholic Baldacci who signs it if it happens. Again, I think the resentment level at another homosexual whine tasting will be significant. My hunch is the courts will be the next theatre of war for this charade.

You're right, I'm sure Dist.

Bets on when the legal action is filed?

They already know where I live. They brought me Twizzlers.

I say this is nothing but loud, sour grapes, said in the heated moment, and much-regretted by this morning.

Bets on when the legal action is filed?

Before the next full moon.

While there are some smug Yes representatives saying mean things, the depth of the bile on some on the PPH postings is incredible (I just read the first 50 or so posts): Some of this stuff is downright scary:

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they will know that their straight neighbors are subhuman monsters without the brains of your average dog

I hope all of the churches in Maine, actually, across the country, go up in flames.

This is great - next lets put the whole white and black marriage to a vote - Shame on you Maine

Thanks for nothing rural Maine (aka Alabama)

I'm sure similar folks as you would have also never thought women would have the right to vote nor black people allowed to use the same restrooms as white people

People are becoming less religious as generations pass, only a matter of time until we'll be laughing in your face. Actually, I've already been laughing at the stupidity of all of your comments

Maine clearly marked itself as a community of bigots.

Maine soundly defeated it because you prefer hate to justice.

We need a national boycott of Maine tourism by everyone who opposes bigotry.
Maine has just turned the clock back to the age of witchcraft trials, since the burning of witches is the level of the childish medieval religious persecution known as Yes on One.

To so loudly demonstrate bigotry and ignorance...

Hate seems to prevail here in Maine these days.

most Americans have taken up the banner of that hatred and have wrapped themselves in a cloak of religous ferver and self rightousness. Maine is still a red
state. The philosophy of folks in Maine is more in line with those in the deep south.This just underscores that we are a nation of hillbillies. Those of us who believe in freedom and equality should boycott Maine, spend our money elsewhere and leave Maine to the bigots

Pretty incredible Tom, incredible. What's really ridiculous is that Maine is probably the bluest state in the country after California and New York, who voted in huge numbers for Obama. But now were all a bunch of haters and bigots and our churches should be destroyed. I know and work with some liberals. Some of them are practically normal. But the liberals that make posts like that are absolutely irrational. One other thing, with 31 states that have rejected gay marriage, they have an awfully big boycott to enforce don't they? Not many states left for gays to vacation in.

"So you guys really think that it was meant as a THREAT? Seriously? Wow... First gay marriage is going to hurt our kids and now the gay campaign is going to come to our houses and what? Try to speak to you? Oh no!!!!! Are you afraid of them having a conversation with you and getting their gay-cooties all over you? Grow up"

Domino,

Please explain why a "defiant" leader of a rejected political effort wanting to "know where every single one of [his opponents] lives" is not threatening.

Tell me that he and his entourage just want to bring me punch and pie.

Not to mention the boycott of their beloved homophobe savior who also believes that marriage is one man, one woman, and the fact that they have to add to their list of states a boycott of the District of Columbia.

Bets on when the legal action is filed?

Change of venue:

A trial date of Jan. 11 has been set for the federal challenge to Prop. 8 being argued by Ted Olsen and David Boies, and funded by the American Foundation for Equal Rights. I imagine they’ll have the resources to dedicate to a similar case in Maine, should it prove necessary.

http://www.equalrightsfoundation.org/about.html

Boies and Olsen, huh? Wow, this gender identity illness stuff really does make for some strange bedfellows, so to speak.

this gender identity illness stuff really does make for some strange bedfellows, so to speak.

It sure does:

The Case Against Boies-Olson in NRO:

If Boies and Olson really believe what they say, they have also condemned President Obama. He supports domestic-partnership laws like California’s but opposes same-sex marriage. They have classified the president as an anti-gay bigot and also smeared a long list of prominent public figures ranging from Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton to Sandra Day O’Connor. One would like to be there when these indictments are delivered face to face.

link: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmI0NWU2ZTU4ZGJlNDUwYWZjNzI4MzFmZjY...

Yep - definitely the right way to change hearts and minds to your side...

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