October 15, 2009

Red-Hot Bigot List: Stand for Marriage Maine Yes On 1 Donor Filings

UPDATE: All the Maine donors (including those from outside Maine) have been imported into Base8. While we are researching each record as you read this, these records are mostly raw data and unsorted — but they are now searchable (and much easier to read).

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Filed October 13, 2009

Notes:

• The data that follows is taken from the Maine Commission on Government Ethics & Election Practices (PDF file), and sorted for easy reading.

• Yes, there are Proposition 8 donors here; I’ve been working with the raw data for so long, I recognize a number of names without needing to cross-check.

• Yes, these records will be added to Base8.

• Of greatest interest will be the cash donations, but the expenditures reveal some interesting information as well. I’m not going to include expenditures (or in-kind contributions) in this post, but I encourage you to browse through the Maine.gov records.

While no one can fault a pizza parlor or a bagel shop for doing business with the Stand for Marriage Maine bigots, the expenditures list includes a number of businesses that (we can only surmise) knew exactly what sort of bigots they were accommodating, such as hotel catering services, designers and printers of banners and other anti-gay materials, those who made in-kind contributions, etc. We would never patronize any establishment that made money at our expense, by accepting business from professional homophobes.

When you get to the entries for “MAR/COM. SERVICES, INC.,” you’ll want to read this short article at the San Francisco Appeal: “San Francisco Company Making $600K To Fight Against Gay Couples.”

• No, I’m not really blogging again. This information is simply too important not to share.

And now, on to the haters and hate-enablers:

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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