Local efforts help Washington initiative get on ballot

Wed, Jul 29 2009 — Source: Lynden Tribune

Local volunteers gathered thousands of signatures toward the 138,000 turned in Saturday in Olympia to try to put Washington’s “everything but marriage” domestic partnership bill to a public vote. Luanne Van Werven of Lynden, chair of the Whatcom County Republican Party, said she and Cindy Honcoop, leader of the Washington Eagle Forum, personally turned in nearly 2,000 county signatures on July 22.

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