SENATORS GET AN EARFUL ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN: From the Cincinnati Post
 
U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine's offices logged more than 6,500 calls Monday and close to another 4,000 Tuesday urging the senator from Ohio to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The offices of Ohio's other senator, George Voinovich, received 15,000 phone calls about the amendment this week alone, roughly 30 times the number it gets during a typical week and the largest volume it has ever gotten on a single issue. "Our phones are still going off," Voinovich spokeswoman Marcie Ridgway said Wednesday, just as the Senate was preparing for a procedural vote on the amendment. ...
 
Senators' offices reported that they were deluged with calls, letters and e-mails from constituents weighing in on the amendment. DeWine's offices in Washington and Ohio got so many calls that an extra person had to be assigned to answer the phones, said the senator's spokeswoman, Amanda Flaig. Of the more than 11,000 calls received this week, only 659 were from people who opposed the amendment. Voinovich's office did not have a tally on calls it received, but Ridgway said they were overwhelmingly in favor of the amendment. Both DeWine, of Cedarville, and Voinovich, of Cleveland, were targeted by groups pushing for the amendment. The Family Research Council included the two Republicans on its "high priority" list of 25 senators to contact. The Alliance for Marriage also contacted groups in Ohio and asked them to call or write to the senators and urge them to support the amendment. ...
 
Though DeWine and Voinovich had been undecided about the need for a constitutional amendment, both voted in favor of the measure on Wednesday. ...
 
Both of Kentucky's Republican senators, Jim Bunning of Southgate and MitchMcConnell of Louisville, announced their support for the amendment early on and were not among the senators targeted by the lobbying groups. Even so, Bunning's office said it received more than 3,000 calls on the amendment this week, running overwhelmingly in favor of the amendment.
 
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