2010 Prop 8 Repeal Bid Begins

Marriage equality activists gathered in San Diego yesterday to plot their campaign to overturn Prop 8 in 2010. Rex Wockner reports:

Attendees at the meeting -- which took place in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, far from the city's gayborhoods -- elected three regional representatives to Restore Equality 2010's 30-member Statewide Advisory Council. The 2010 campaign has divided the state into 10 regions, with San Diego County as one of them.

The campaign's first main task is to collect 694,354 valid voter signatures to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot to remove Prop 8 from the California Constitution. It is generally believed that about 1 million total signatures need to be collected to get the required number of valid ones.

As Wockner notes in the above-linked story, most LGBT organizations in California oppose a repeal attempt in 2010, believing that there is a greater chance of success in 2012, a presidential election year.