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Yesterday Connecticut became the third state to legally recognize same-sex couples:
The landmark law permits same-sex partners to enter into civil unions and grants nearly all of the rights and responsibilities available to married couples.
The new law extends to gay couples the rights and responsibilities married couples have under 588 state statutes, including the right to file a joint tax return and make medical decisions for a partner.
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Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (in cooperation with the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and two Connecticut law firms) today filed a suit on behalf of seven gay and lesbian couples from across Connecticut designed to end Connecticut's exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from marriage rights. GLAD represented plaintiffs in the recent gay marriage case in Massachusetts.
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At last! Connecticut's Governor Rowland will resign tonight.
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Questions about elections in Connecticut? One place to start is Title 9 of the General Statutes of Connecticut. The Connecticut Secretary of the State also provides information of Election Administration.
(Of course, shortly after posting this, name service for www.cga.state.ct.us seems to have gotten completely hosed. Big surprise... Ever notice that the government, which wants to run our lives, can hardly even run its own Internet services properly?)
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You should register to vote. If you live in Connecticut, the forms are online. There's other useful information there, too; say, if you wanted to start your own political party...
For those outside Connecticut, the FEC provides a National Mail Voter Registration Form.
The Deomcractic Presidential Preference Primary will be held in Connecticut on Tuesday, March 2nd. A timetable is available online.
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Should Connecticut impeach Rowland? Well, I think we can all agree at least that he's an embarrassment. Kind of George Bush lite...
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