Cashing in on gay marriage ruling
Last week's California Supreme Court decision backing gay marriage has galvanized both sides of the issue, with groups working to either pass or defeat a constitutional prohibition reporting numerous new volunteers and waves of fresh cash donations. Mike Swift in the Mercury News.
In a measure of the issue's national import, anti-gay marriage - pro-amendment - forces have landed the pre-eminent Catholic fraternal organization's largest-ever donation on the gay-marriage issue. Meanwhile gay-marriage - anti-amendment - support groups have won large donations from national gay-rights groups, including a $500,000 pledge from the Human Rights Campaign.
Both sides say they are also receiving large numbers of much smaller, individual donations.
County officials are still confirming the validity of more than 1.1 million petition signatures that both s
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The Los Angeles Daily News' City Hall reporters Rick Orlov and Kerry Cavanaugh write about politics on the local, state and national stage.
WHO actually gathered and turned in these signatures? Is there any record of this? And why is it not reported?
I ask this because of a recent presentation to my group, Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, that tried to obtain our support for the redistricting measure that is to be on the November ballot at the same time as the anti-gay marriage one.
It struck my as very odd that this group would have almost the SAME NUMBER of signatures submitted on their petitions. WERE THEY GATHERED TOGETHER???
I think that is REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
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