Reorganizers against Proposition 8 regret relying on experts
”The biggest mistake is we turned everything over to professional consultants, and we would never do that again. We should have been in the strategy room with them.”
Geoff Kors of California Marriage Equality, a group that fought Proposition 8, reacting to participant sentiment at the ”Equality Summit ’09” that one of the reasons the anti-gay marriage initiative Proposition 8 passed was becaue regular people were excluded from the guiding process. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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