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Election week vote totals had the so-called Protect Marriage Arizona amendment failing by about 32,000 votes, by 48.6%-51.4%; but there were still more than 345,000 ballots to be counted at the end of that week, so the result was not certain.
With all counties now reporting their pre-certification totals, the amendment has failed by an even greater margin: 54,009 votes out of 1,496,987, or 48.2%-51.8%.
Credit goes to out Democratic state Representative Kyrsten Sinema and the many volunteers at Arizona Together, and to Cindy Jordan and the volunteers of southern Arizona's No on 107 campaign. Cindy, incidentally, served as the first-ever Field Director of the National Stonewall Democrats in 2000.
The author of the amendment, Len Munsil, was also this year's Republican nominee for Governor. He was crushed by incumbent Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano by over 416,000 votes, or 62.6%-35.4%.
Mr. Munsil resigned as head of the extremist Center for Arizona Policy, Arizona's Focus on the Family affiliate, to run for Governor. He was caught with his pants down during the Republican gubernatorial primary campaign when it was revealed that he and his wife had their first child just seven months after their marriage twenty years ago. It was not because the lad was a preemie -- Len was forced to admit publicly that he and Tracy couldn't keep things zipped before they were married. This is a man who has spent the last two decades shaking his finger at everyone else in the state because we're all supposedly fornicators and sodomites completely lacking in self-restraint.
"Though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and [he] must be acknowledged. " (King Lear; I, 1) As it often will, Mr. Munsil's hypocrisy caught up with him. If he had remained as head of the Center for Arizona Policy, he would still be one of the most powerful and dangerous conservative figures in the state, and his personal peccadilloes would have escaped scrutiny. Instead, he became the object of rolling eyes all over the state, and he joins the lengthy list of fake-morality Swaggart-Haggards whose reputations lay in tatters.
It was a just election, and a good one.