The DA, a State Bar official, responds to boycott threat of annual meeting here over Papa Doug’s Prop. 8 support

From the gleaming towers of San Francisco to the poolside glitz of Beverly Hills, there’s a storm a-brewin’ over a decision by the State Bar of California to hold its upcoming annual meeting at the Downtown Manchester Grand Hyatt.

The problem: Papa Doug Manchester’s financial backing of Proposition 8, the anti-gay-marriage ballot measure that voters narrowly approved in November. Manchester, the hotel’s owner, donated $125,000 to the Prop. 8 cause at its early signature-gathering phase.

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