| Barbara Ann Radnofsky wraps up a widely successful five-city announcement tour today culminating in a final appearance tonight at the Mid-Cities Democrats Birthday Bash in Euless. Radnofsky, and her supporters, should be quite pleased with the large amount of earned media garnered from an entire week of hard campaigning.
You may have read this week that Barbara Radnofsky made news by declaring the 22-word clause (Subsection B) within the 2005 constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman-essentially banning unions between same-sex couples, may in fact null all marriages in Texas due to sloppy language.
Subsection B reads:
"This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."
The language is certainly murky at best, and could be widely interpreted as to anull any form of marriage in Texas, but it was a constitutional amendment widely supported by the Texas legislature and overwhelmingly approved by Texas voters.
However, that doesn't dismiss the fact that Republicans who authored the amendment, in their fit to curry political points by treating the LGBT community as their personal political piñata, may in fact have screwed up something that realistically should have been a political slam dunk.
For her work this week in raising awareness of this error that might require yet another constitutional amendment to fix, Radnofsky made Keith Olbermann's "World's Best Persons List" on MSNBC's Countdown. You can view the video here. |
