I’m getting mail at work again, which is nice. I went so long without it at AOL — somehow I’d given it to the State Bar incorrectly, and in the last 6 months I was there, I was never able to get it sorted out.

Today, I got the one-page info sheets about the three men who are running for State Bar President.

I don’t know any of them personally, but I like to vote, and I feel like a bad citizen and a bad lawyer if I don’t. The big issue I’m concerned about in WI right now is the proposed amendment to the state constitution, which would define marriage as between a man and a woman.

That’s already the state of the law in Wisconsin, although it isn’t statutory. This would make it far more "set in stone." And a lot of members of the State Bar are engaged in the issue — the Individual Rights and Public Interest Law sections want to lobby against it.  The Board of Governors needs to decide if the Bar will take a position.

I wrote each of the candidates to ask their opinions, both about the issue for the Bar, and the larger issue of the Amendment. We’ll see what they say.