Jesse Connolly's "Observations from the trenches in Maine"

Maine's No on 1 campaign manager, Jesse Connolly, wrote a post at Huffington about the campaign. It's a smart, solid piece:

It may turn out to be simply this: that by moving this basic premise of equality from the sink hole of catastrophic defeat state after state, year after year, to within striking distance of a win, that we are almost to the finish line. This tide is turning and you can tell by the histrionics from our opponents, from their "gathering storm."

It's not fast enough for most of us, certainly not for the families who deserve the same basic protections my wife, son and I enjoy, but we're getting close. We will learn more from Maine, we will keep making progress and we will win.

Let no one doubt -- least of all our opponents -- that we're in this for the long haul, until all Maine families are treated equally. This has always been much more than another campaign. It's about love and family and that will always be something worth fighting for.

Jesse is a very good friend. I've known him for a long time. I always believed we were in good hands with Jesse at the helm of the campaign. I still do. We're going to ultimately prevail because we're on the right side of history. And, it's good to have allies like Jesse on our side in the battle.