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| Newlyweds Kevin Cahill (left) and Chip Lenno share a piece of chocolate after
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome
City Hall, Room 200
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
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By: JOE CREA COMMENTS
 
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have gone directly to court and put the full weight of the
state to stop this,” Lungren said Tuesday. “Bill Lockyer needs
to step up to the plate and defend the law. We need to have an attorney general
who isn’t fighting with one or two hands tied behind his back.”
Republican activists who helped place the recall of former Gov. Gray Davis
on the ballot last year announced Tuesday they would seek to recall Lockyer
because of the perception he has “neglected his duty” to enforce
state laws governing marriage.
Lockyer officials dismissed the threat of a recall, calling it “politically
inspired.”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” this week, Schwarzenegger reiterated
his position that Mayor Newsom was breaking the law by handing out same-sex
marriage licenses.
Moderator Tim Russert asked Schwarzenegger if he would support gay state Assemblyman
Mark Leno’s proposed legislation legalizing gay marriage, and Schwarzenegger
said he would not “deal with hypotheticals.”
Jeff Bissiri, chair of the Log Cabin Republican club of California, said that
while his group supports civil marriage equality, he criticized Newsom’s
actions in San Francisco saying that they “feed into the fear mongering
that goes on by opponents of gay rights.
“Massachusetts was enough [for many opponents],” Bissiri said. “We
are going through the legal process in that state to get gay marriage. That
was pro-active enough. San Francisco went outside of that. Suppose the other
side starts doing something similar. We may end up with a city that decides
we won’t have any domestic partnership benefits.”
Newsom, a former wine and restaurant entrepreneur, defended his decision to
issue same-sex marriage licenses and told CNN that denying gay couples the
freedom to marry “is wrong and inconsistent with the values this country
holds dear.”
San Francisco State political science professor Richard DeLeon said that prior
to issuing gay marriage licenses, many voters viewed Newsom as a moderate or
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