So we passed a more liberal zoning ordinance three years ago and embarked on an ambitious improvement program".
Seattle in 1977 was a liberal city that had passed a gay rights ordinance in 1973, and whose mayor had just declared a Gay Pride Week for June.
In more liberal areas, some 50 municipalities have passed medical marijuana ordinances, but most have suspended the regulation of dispensaries because of the federal offensive, according to Americans for Safe Access, a group that promotes access to medical marijuana.
Many liberal cities have also enacted their own paid leave ordinances that employers must abide by.
Craig himself saw the ordinance as responding to yet another irrational liberal attack on rural jobs.
Mr. Prang said progressive groups looking to start grass-roots movements have come to realize that California's more liberal cities — places like West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Berkeley — are receptive to activist ordinances.
Each of these blue states, along with liberal-leaning municipalities across the country, has passed laws or ordinances that would force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion and/or denigrate the help they offer to women.
At the same time, Mr. Vallone can be credited with a number of liberal legislative proposals -- campaign financing, a so-called living-wage ordinance, and a smoking ban in restaurants.
A poll taken after the vote showed that liberal voters who were not gay simply declined to show up and vote, and those who opposed the ordinance were much more motivated.
Liberal, liberal, liberal!
The battle over the ordinance and the resulting campaign to oust Mayor John Cook and the two council members, Susie Byrd and Steve Ortega, is dividing a city that prides itself as a liberal Democratic stronghold.
