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Matt McTighe is currently executive director of Freedom for All Americans. McTighe was born in New York and raised around the country because his father was in the military. He began his political work serving moderate Republicans before joining the campaign to win the freedom to marry in 2003 when he served as political director of MassEquality. After a 2009 “people’s veto” of marriage in Maine, McTighe headed up what became in 2012 the first successful statewide ballot campaign to win marriage. In this interview, McTighe discusses the full sweep of political campaigns, both legislatively and through voter referendums, focusing on Massachusetts and Maine; he provides detail on running an extensive ground campaign and developing message research and political ads that clearly communicated successful messages

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Matt McTighe on the Marriage Campaigns in Massachusetts and Maine
Creator
McTighe, Matt, interviewee
Meeker, Martin, interviewer
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Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2017
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Freedom to Marry Oral Histories
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Advocacy and Philanthropy
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
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McTighe, Matt. "Matt McTighe on the Marriage Campaigns in Massachusetts and Maine." Interview by Martin Meeker in 2016. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2017.
Interview date(s) 2016
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