1.   Although the Legislature has been run by Democrats for several decades, this was the first major effort to offer domestic partnership benefits to Capitol employees.

2.   Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, D-Los Angeles, and Senate President pro tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, support domestic partnership benefits.

3.   A run of corporations, including Coca-Cola and the big automakers in Detroit, have granted partnership benefits to same-sex couples.

4.   ACLJ spokesman Gene Kapp added the group did not consider domestic partnership benefits an acceptable compromise.

5.   Davis said he would not sign a bill legalizing gay marriage, but would sign measures expanding domestic partnership benefits.

6.   In Plattsburgh, Stewart faced an opponent known for positions favored by gays on issues like domestic partnership benefits and same-sex marriage.

7.   Nor did concerns of special interest to gays, like nondiscrimination statutes or domestic partnership benefits, enter the race.

8.   On the day the criticism became public, Swift was extending some domestic partnership benefits to gay and lesbian state workers.

9.   Recently, several large health plans, such as Kaiser, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, HealthNet and Pacificare, began offering domestic partnership health benefits.

10.   The state government offers domestic partnership benefits to employees, and so do some cities and towns.