Tag Archives: campaign finance

Brian Brown Vs Fred Karger

“The National Organization for Marriage has violated no campaign finance rules in Iowa, and we decry the decision by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board to open an investigation. This inquiry is a witch hunt spawned by a delusional homosexual activist who fancies himself becoming the president of the United States and who is a serial filer of frivolous …

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Complaint By Fred Karger Triggers FEC Investigation Of Rick Santorum

Former GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger, the eternal thorn in the backside of NOM, has struck again. The Federal Election Commission is asking former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats and an anti-gay marriage organization to tell the agency why it should not investigate an allegation that they violated campaign finance limits during the last election. …

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NOM Loses Final Appeal In Maine

Today the Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected NOM’s appeal to continue to cloak the names of their donors. Via Bangor Daily News: In affirming an earlier Kennebec County Superior Court’s decision, justices on the Supreme Judicial Court rejected NOM’s arguments that subpoenas issued by the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Elections Practices violate donors’ First Amendment rights and expose …

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This Week: NOM Vs Maine

NOM’s continuing battle to cloak their donors finally reaches Maine’s Supreme Court this week. The National Organization for Marriage is appealing a Superior Court judge’s decision refusing to vacate subpoenas issued by the Maine Ethics Commission demanding the names of NOM’s donors in a 2009 gay marriage referendum. Voters that year overturned a law passed by legislators allowing same-sex marriage …

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NEW YORK CITY: Anti-Labor Group Donates Big Bucks To Christine Quinn

The New York Daily News reports that a group opposing NYC’s pending bill to mandate paid sick leave has donated $370,000 to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign. The business leaders were among the 180 people who penned an open letter to Quinn last summer arguing that mandating paid sick leave would be prohibitively costly for small businesses. They …

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Gay House Rep. Mark Pocan Sponsors Amendment To Overturn Citizens United

Openly gay freshman House Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) today announced his co-sponsorship of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the landmark 2010 Supreme Court ruling that permits unlimited political spending by corporations. The lead sponsor of the amendment is Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN). Via press release: In making the announcement, lead sponsor Rep. Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota), said: “It’s time …

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NYC Speaker Christine Quinn Backs Expansion Of Campaign Spending Rules

Openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the presumptive favorite in next year’s mayoral race, is supporting a bill that would that would loosen the rules on “unions, corporations and advocacy groups” who support the campaigns of local candidates. The bill, to be introduced on Monday, would allow those outside groups to work directly with candidates on their internal political …

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MAINE: Despite SCOTUS Loss, NOM Continues To Evade Donor Disclosure

Via press release from Mainers United: In a campaign finance report filed Thursday with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, NOM reported raising and spending more than $250,000 to influence Question 1 on the November ballot. Question 1 would allow same-sex couples to receive a marriage license from the state while protecting religious freedom. In a practice …

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NOM Loses SCOTUS Appeal

We didn’t see any action on Prop 8, but in the meantime we can totally enjoy this: The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine’s campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court on Monday turned aside an appeal from the National Organization …

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VIRGINIA: FBI Investigates Eugene Delgaudio For Multiple Violations Of Campaign & Employment Laws

The Washington Post has published an expose of Eugene Delgaudio in which a former worker in his Virginia office alleges that she was ordered to work on his anti-gay campaigns during county time.  Such work is against the law and the FBI is investigating. She worked from a spreadsheet that listed more than a thousand names and the political campaigns …

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Email Of The Day – Barack Obama

This just in: Joe — Before I go on stage to accept the nomination, there’s one thing I need to say: Thank you. It’s because you’ve got my back that I’m here. And if we win this, it will be because of you, too. Can you pitch in $25 or more right now? https://donate.barackobama.com/Tonight I can’t tell you how grateful …

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WASHINGTON: State Tells Catholic Church Anti-Gay Collection Is Illegal

Election officials in Washington state have told the local Catholic Church that their plan to take up a collection against gay marriage during mass would be a violation of campaign finance laws. Lori Anderson, a spokeswoman for the state’s Public Disclosure Commission, told LGBTQ Nation on Wednesday that the request is illegal under the terms of Initiative 134, which Washington …

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Senate GOP Derails Disclosure Bill

The Senate GOP has once again blocked the Disclose Act, a bill which would not curtail unlimited campaign spending, but would at lease force the disclosure of who was donating all those millions. Huffington Post reports: The vote against the Disclose Act represented a remarkable turnaround for Republicans, who have long supported disclosure as an alternative to campaign donation limits. …

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California To Investigate NOM

Thank to a persistent campaign of complaints by GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger, the California Fair Political Practices Commission will investigate NOM for campaign finance violations. Via press release from Fred Karger: In his sworn complaint of May 17th, Karger alleged that NOM did not report over $340,000 that it raised to pass Proposition 8 four years ago. California joins …

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John Edwards Found Not Guilty

Not guilty on one count, deadlocked on the five others.

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NOM Files Florida Appeal To Secretly Campaign In Favor Of Gov. Rick Scott

NOM has filed a federal appeal demanding that they be exempted from a Florida law that bans out of state groups from secretly campaigning for local politicians. In their filing, NOM argues that they would be unfairly burdened if forced to disclose the source of their funding. Electioneering communications organizations, or ECOs, are structured differently than traditional political-action committees and …

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REPORT: Rep. Aaron Schock Used Campaign Cash For Lavish Vacations

Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), the “hottie” Congressman, is at the top of a list of federal politicians who used campaign donations to reimburse himself for lavish vacations around the world. Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report Friday claiming that a Republican Illinois congressman misused campaign funds for lavish hotels, cash reimbursements for his …

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GOP Television Spending So Far

Buzzfeed provides the above chart showing how the Super PACs have blown away campaign spending thanks to Citizens United.

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Log Cabin Head R. Clark Cooper And Ken Mehlman To Co-Host Boehner Fundraiser

Log Cabin Republicans head R. Clark Cooper and former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman will be co-hosts of a fundraiser to reelect GOP House Speaker John Boehner. Why would two self-proclaimed supporters of LGBT rights work to maintain the regime of the man who has vowed to thwart the overturn of DOMA and who recently tripled the legal budget to do …

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Top GOP Super PAC Donors

Wow. Analysis of these new filings and previously available data reveals that 19 wealthy donors have already given a million dollars or more each, combining to funnel $46.75 million to Republican-allied Super PACs so far this cycle. It comes as little surprise that this list is dominated by financial sector investors (8), energy and chemical producers (4), and real estate …

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