Calif county clerk defends gay marriage ban (DailyBulletin) 
Chuck Storey ran for county clerk-recorder in a remote, desert corner of southeast California on a pledge to run a lean operation in churning out government documents like property deeds, birth certificates and marriage licenses.
"Imperial County needs a businessman," he said during last year's campaign.
Less than two months in office, the low-key real estate agent became something else: a very public face against gay marriage in California. Storey asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month to let him be the primary defendant in a lawsuit to uphold Proposition 8—if a coalition of religious and conservative groups that sponsored the measure is removed.
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