Comments on: NOM loses in Maine, election laws are constitutional

By: Pender

Pender — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:51:22 +0000

Fascinating to hear that big-donor dollars make up essentially all of their budget — I wasn’t aware.

I cannot wait for the day when their books are opened to the world. It will be very educational indeed.

By: cd

cd — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:40:35 +0000

The National Organization of Mormon and Monaghan Money is going to have to detail its donors? Oh, the poor oppressed dears!

By: cooner

cooner — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:05:22 +0000

To perhaps state the obvious:

If it’s true that 90% of their funding comes from large donors, doesn’t that kind of make a huge dent in their whole “save their members from gay harassment” argument?

I mean, not to them — of course they’ll squawk and rant about perceived harm and oppression as much as they can — but it seems like the impression they’ve been trying to paint has been of a horde of queer thugs roving from door to door beating up individual families and scaring the children just for expressing their beliefs. That’s a very different picture, public-perception-wise, than unveiling a handful of one or more large corporate donors who’ve been funneling money into a political action group for some nefarious purpose they don’t want revealed.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:44:35 +0000

All this secrecy really has me dying of anticipation. Rupert Murdoch? The Mormon, or Catholic, church? Neil Patrick Harris? Who is worth going to court to try and protect?

By: David C.

David C. — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:29:29 +0000

This only confirms my belief that NOM is mainly funded by a very small number of deep-pocketed individuals and/or organizations. Perhaps NOM will now, finally, be compelled to follow the law in all cases where they have sought to thwart open elections. Donors to NOM are now one step closer to being outed. Good.