Arizona: We gotta do it again

The Arizona Senate on Wednesday defeated a bill to put a marriage protection amendment on the November ballot. They got 14 votes and needed 16. But there was one more vote on Wednesday -- to take another vote on Friday (last day of the session) when a couple Senators would be back in town.

So they did, breaking all kinds of Senate rules, shutting off the microphones of two gay senators speaking about some other bill, and causing 20 minutes of chaos. But they got their 16 votes, including that of the President of the Senate, who tried to not allow the vote to happen, then voted for it. Remember that Arizona voted down such an amendment in 2006. Many of these senators voted against how their district voted in 2006. A tally will be kept of how many don't get re-elected.