NOM DROPS $10,000 FOR ANTHONY MUSE: On Monday, Maryland Juice readers reported that the anti-gay extremist group NOM ("National Organization for Marriage") was robo-polling voters trying to turn out marriage equality opponents for State Senator Anthony Muse's failed U.S. Senate campaign. Yesterday the nonprofit Human Rights Campaign reported that NOM reported spending $10,000 on the effort:
MD GOP CHAIR ALEX MOONEY ACCEPTS $1 MILLION FROM NOM: Notably, recent media reports indicate that the Maryland GOP is also planning on accepting this tainted money. Last Friday, The Gazette reported that MD GOP Chair Alex Mooney had admitted NOM pledged $1,000,000 to help the Republicans overturn marriage equality:
BACKGROUND: NOM is being condemned around the nation after the leak of appalling internal documents. The non-profit Human Rights Campaign published strategy memos showing that NOM's goal is to foster and stoke divisions among key Democratic constituencies:
Ironically, State Senator Muse came under fire for campaign literature he had featuring Barack Obama (an endorser of his opponent). It turns out Mr. Muse was also receiving air support from a group that wants to paint the President as a "social radical." Classy!
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN: Just filed FEC reports show that NOM spent $10,000 in last night's Maryland state primary hoping to push anti-equality Democrat C. Anthony Muse, a current state senator who voted against the marriage bill, above incumbent U.S. Senator Ben Cardin:
MD GOP CHAIR ALEX MOONEY ACCEPTS $1 MILLION FROM NOM: Notably, recent media reports indicate that the Maryland GOP is also planning on accepting this tainted money. Last Friday, The Gazette reported that MD GOP Chair Alex Mooney had admitted NOM pledged $1,000,000 to help the Republicans overturn marriage equality:
GAZETTE: Mooney expressed concern about the sustainability of petition efforts. The party got a $1 million commitment from the National Organization for Marriage and money from several other groups for the effort to overturn same-sex marriage.Meanwhile, advocates around the nation see signs that NOM is becoming a political liability. The Chicago GoPride blog noted:
The pressure to distance the GOP from NOM is even coming from within the party faithful itself. Head of the Log Cabin Republicans R. Clarke Cooper blasted the organization in a recent article the Washington Times, saying, "Putting aside NOM's callous disregard for LGBT families, my party, the Republican party, cannot afford to be associated with an organization that arrogantly seeks to manipulate African American and Latino voters... Crude identity politics has no place in today's conservative movement."
The fallout from NOM's internal memo's is far from over.
BACKGROUND: NOM is being condemned around the nation after the leak of appalling internal documents. The non-profit Human Rights Campaign published strategy memos showing that NOM's goal is to foster and stoke divisions among key Democratic constituencies:
Today HRC got a hold of internal NOM documents that shed light on the anti-LGBT movement’s overall strategy. These documents were just unsealed in Maine mid-afternoon. The docs are part of the ongoing investigation by the State of Maine into the campaign finance activities of NOM in that state. Much more to come but some high (low) lights from PDF page 13 of the “confidential” 2008-09 report to the NOM Board of Directors:
“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”
Another passage:
"The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation."
On PDF page 12, it talks about “sideswiping Obama,” painting him as a “social radical” and talking about “side issues” like pornography.
Ironically, State Senator Muse came under fire for campaign literature he had featuring Barack Obama (an endorser of his opponent). It turns out Mr. Muse was also receiving air support from a group that wants to paint the President as a "social radical." Classy!
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