It’s A Long Way!

November 6^th is a long ways off and a lot can happen between now and then. We cannot sit on our laurels; we have to keep up the pressure for Massachusetts ballot question 3.

The last poll that was published is over 3 months old and that “Yes” ahead by a slim majority.

According to the WBUR poll, 52 percent of voters oppose getting rid of the law, while 38 percent support its repeal.

I imagine there are a number of internal polls and I hope that the margin is still the same or better.

Transgender rights groups outspend opponents in Massachusetts ballot question fightMasslive
By Shira Schoenberg
September 10, 2018

A committee that wants to uphold Massachusetts' transgender anti-discrimination law has vastly outraised and outspent the group that wants to repeal the law.

Voters in November will decide whether to repeal a law protecting transgender people from discrimination in public places and allowing transgender people to use the facilities that match with their gender identity.

According to campaign finance reports filed Friday, Freedom for All Massachusetts, which supports the law, raised $1.8 million in 2018 and spent $1 million. Keep Massachusetts Safe, which wants to repeal the law, raised $106,300 in 2018 and spent $80,000.

Since the start of the campaign in 2017, Freedom for All Massachusetts has raised $2.7 million, while Keep Massachusetts Safe has raised $286,000.

So where is the opposition money coming in from?

Keep Massachusetts Safe, which opposes the ballot question, is funded with $90,000 from the Massachusetts Family Institute, the socially conservative advocacy group that spearheaded the repeal effort. The Renew Massachusetts Coalition, which bills itself as a group dedicated to moving Massachusetts to the right on fiscal and social issues, gave another $63,000.

Keep Massachusetts Safe got just under 200 small dollar donations, of $100 or less, as well as some larger donations from individuals.

Dover retiree Walter Weld donated $20,000. Donors who contributed $10,000 include real estate advisor David Stubblebine; John DeMatteo, a principal at Park Street Group; U-Line Corporation owner Richard Uihlein; investment manager Robert Bradley and homemaker Carol Breuer.

Memorize those names! And if you can boycott them.

Freedom for All Massachusetts needs boots on the ground and they need help for phone banks