Frank Helps Raise Funds for VCU

Nearly 100 people attended a fundraiser for Vermonters for Civil Unions at the Ferrisburgh home of Richard Alther on August 30. Openly gay Congressman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, (left) was the guest of honor.

In his address to the crowd, Frank said, “Each of you knows someone who isn’t planning to vote. If they don’t vote on November 7, shame on you!” He stressed the importance of the outcome of the election to people not only in Vermont, but all over the country.

The congressman is pictured here with Beth Robinson, one of the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs in Baker v Vermont, the case that lead to the state’s precedent-setting civil union law.

Vermonters for Civil Unions is a political action committee working to support and re-elect pro-civil union legislators.

photo: Barbara Dozetos