Political Contributions
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AT&T donates to campaign of Texas AG who opposes marriage equality
Monday, August 18, 2014Dallas-based telecommunications giant AT&T has contributed $75,000 to anti-gay Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott’s campaign for governor. Lone Star QA reports that, according to campaign finance reports obtained by the Texas Ethics Commission, AT&T’s Texas political… -
Mozilla CEO resignation: Free speech suppressed, or free market at work?
Friday, April 4, 2014SAN JOSE, Calif. — The resignation of Mozilla's CEO amid outrage that he supported an anti-gay marriage campaign is prompting concerns about how Silicon Valley's strongly liberal culture might quash the very openness that is at… -
Another setback for NOM: Iowa ethics board to keep executive in investigation
Thursday, August 22, 2013DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board voted Wednesday not to remove its executive director from an investigation into whether the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) violated state law by not disclosing… -
FEC: Political donations by married, gay couples require equal treatment
Thursday, July 25, 2013WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday that the political contributions of married same-sex couples should be treated equally to the donations of married straight couples, acting after a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court… -
Target gives $50K to group supporting anti-gay Va. candidate Ken Cuccinelli
Thursday, July 25, 2013Back in 2010, Target Corporation was forced to apologize when it came out that it had funded campaign ads on behalf of virulently anti-gay Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. The controversy hit the Minnesota-based company hard,… -
FEC rules against joint political donations from married, gay couples
Friday, April 26, 2013WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission said Thursday that married, same-sex couples cannot pool their money to donate to political campaigns as married, opposite-sex couples are able to do so. -
NOM argues in Maine that it doesn’t have to reveal donor list
Thursday, April 11, 2013PORTLAND, Maine -- A lawyer for the leading national advocacy group opposing same-sex marriage told Maine's highest court Thursday that the First Amendment shields it from having to reveal its donor list to state officials. -
Donors supporting marriage equality in 2012 dwarfed those who opposed It
Thursday, December 13, 2012The number of contributors who gave in support of marriage for gay and lesbian couples was thirteen times greater – about 133,000 compared to an estimated 10,500 - than those giving financial resources to oppose marriage… -
Washington advises Catholic diocese that anti-gay marriage collection is illegal
Wednesday, August 29, 2012OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state of Washington has advised the Catholic diocese in Yakima, Wash., that its plans to conduct a special collection to benefit the campaign to defeat the state's marriage equality law is illegal… -
Obama met with ovations, donations since supporting marriage equality
Tuesday, June 12, 2012President Obama has been greeted with thunderous ovations and thousands of dollars in LGBT contributions since his May 9 announcement that he supports allowing same-sex couples to marry.
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