John Baldacci signed the legislation into law, was their anticipation of a peoples veto?
Oh gosh yes! That’s another reason why I think a lot of the arguments that the other side are making kind of fall flat in Maine. Because, the issue of equality has been dealt with over and over again in the state of Maine for the last 20 years, this is at least the fourth statewide vote that we’ve had on equality issues. A lot of the issues that are being raised have been raised before. Quite frankly, they have been raised before and have been proven to be false and Maine people know that. But clearly the folks involved in this whole overall initiative anticipated it from the outset. We are talking about an effort that goes back to almost 3 years ago in terms of developing a strategy and building the support of the momentum toward first getting the legislation passed in the Maine Legislature, getting the governor’s signature but also fully anticipating that because Maine has this People’s Veto process that it would eventually go to a vote and anticipating that we would have a campaign
