Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad

[Duncan Grant]

Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry.

Forming a group and taking out a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News tomorrow, the execs hope to convince voters to reject Proposition 8, which is titled “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.”

Silicon Valley has had a long history of supporting gay rights. And recently, Google (GOOG) Co-Founder Sergey Brin has made a strong statement opposing Proposition 8, while Apple (AAPL) gave $100,000 to help defeat it.

The honorary co-chairs of “Silicon Valley Leaders Say NO on Proposition 8″ include: Brin; Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit; David Filo, Founder, Yahoo; Chuck Geschke, Founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems; John Morgridge, Former CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems; Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay; Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook; Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google; and Jerry Yang, Founder, Yahoo.

More at: The Wall Street Journal

edit: cross-post from LBN (Thanks, Newsjock)

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Isn't it a bit late for that?

This would have been far more effective if it had come out two or three weeks ago, before most absentee balloters had mailed in their votes.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[JackBeck]

3. Live Nation gave $50,000 today.

Which was great news for me, given the loan I had to take out to buy Madonna tickets.

[AntiFascist]

4. Excellent....

a lot of Yes on 8 support comes from Santa Clara County so I hope this ad is effective.