Washington State Voters Approve Domestic Partnership Law
The Human Rights Campaign has contributed significant resources to the efforts in Washington to protect domestic partnerships and approve Referendum 71.
HRC’s efforts have included:
- Donated more than $90,000 in monetary and in-kind contributions to the efforts to approve Referendum 71 and protect domestic partnership benefits;
- Made $78,500 in monetary contributions to the Approve 71 campaign, including more than $67,000 raised from hundreds of individual donors to the HRC Approve 71 PAC;
- Provided more than $15,000 in in-kind contributions to the Approve 71 campaign;
- Deployed a field organizer to work full time with Washington Families Standing Together Approve Referendum 71 from early September through Election Day;
- Coordinated phone banks in Seattle several evenings per week, staffed by HRC volunteers, to call Washington voters, generating thousands of telephone calls and conversations;
- Organized nearly 100 HRC local steering committee members and other HRC volunteers to assist with get-out-the-vote efforts; and
- Mobilized more than 30,000 HRC members and supporters via special online Action Alerts and telephone calls to get them involved in the referendum efforts.
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