* Nineteen states have legal same-sex marriage. There are 12 states, including Florida, where gay-marriage bans have been overturned, but where appeals are in progress.
Locally, Tampa and St. Petersburg have joined cities such as Miami Beach and Orlando in supporting lawsuits that seek to overturn Florida’s same-sex marriage ban.
The dominoes continue to fall. Soon it will just be Terry Kemple and Pam Bondi on the wrong side of history–and the wrong side of an issue that is, at its core, about fairness and equality.
* Gov. Rick Scott did a campaign drive-by over the weekend in Carrollwood. In pep-talking his volunteers, he recalled that “When we won in 2010, it was because of grass roots.”
Not that Tea Partiers weren’t a presence, but it was hardly a grass-roots scenario for success.
As we know, it was more about Charlie Crist forgoing re-election and leaving early, Alex Sink being an awful campaigner, President Obama adamantly remaining a black, “socialist” target and Scott spending $70 million of his own money.