It’s official as far as I’m concerned—David Crowe kicked me off the Restore America email list. I just got his latest memo via my alias email address set up for this purpose, but not to my Mercury account.

But never fear, I can still share with you the hysteria gripping the Restore America campaign over the “marriage and immorality bills.” They’re trying to whip supporters into a frenzy, in the hopes of getting enough signatures by next Wednesday’s deadline (one chief petitioner, former state senator Marylin Shannon, told the Oregonian that she’s confident they’ll get just over 55K signatures, but they may not get the buffer they need to make sure they get over 55K valid signatures. “’It will take a miracle to get the buffer,’ Shannon said Thursday. ‘But we believe in miracles.’”).

[Oregonians] are infuriated that every democrat in the legislature chose to heed a well heeled, well financed, militant and intolerant special interest group instead of the voices of the people of Oregon when they passed HB 2007 creating marriage by another name, and Senate Bill 2, granting special rights, privileges and protections to homosexuals.

“A steady stream of people are showing up to sign the petitions in the last few days” said Perry Atkinson, owner of KDOV radio in Southern, Oregon. Similar reports from around the state are coming in on a regular basis.

Atkinson, former Chairman of the Oregon Republican Party is one of the few radio talk show hosts in the state who will talk with any factual depth or passion about what these bills entail, and what they will lead to.

“Opposition to these two bills is so strong that a volunteer courier system throughout the state has been established, allowing would be signers last minute opportunities to sign the petitions before the September 26th deadline,” said David Crowe of Concerned Oregonians.

Those who oppose the ‘marriage and immorality bills’, as they are being called, can go to the Concerned Oregonians web site to find a location near them in which they can sign no later than 2PM Sunday, the 23rd.