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Barbara Lee's Lone Vote Against the 2001 War Authorization On September 14, 2001, Barbara Lee cast the only vote against the war authorization. How that 60-word law was stretched for twenty years, and what her dissent got right. Harvey Milk, the Briggs Initiative and the Campaign That Changed Minds In 1978 California voters were expected to pass a ballot measure to fire gay teachers. They rejected it. Here is how a coalition, not a single hero, turned that vote around.