NOM, the reputed LDS front group with two Catholic hood ornaments, Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown, reached into its mysteriously deep pockets and pulled out almost a quarter million per nonretained judge.
From Alice Zhang's story for the Daily Princetonion:
From Alice Zhang's story for the Daily Princetonion:
NOM, which was co-founded by politics professor Robert George in 2007, contributed more than $600,000 to the Iowa for Freedom campaign’s effort to unseat the judges.
NOM joined forces with the Campaign for Working Families, a political action committee, and Iowa for Freedom as part of an “independent expenditure ad campaign,” according to the NOM website.
As a 501(c)(4) organization, NOM is a tax-exempt nonprofit without limits on the amount of time or money that it can spend on political campaigning. The organization’s goal is to “protect marriage” by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The headquarters of NOM are located at 20 Nassau St., and George is the chair of its board of directors.
In 2009, NOM started a $1.5 million ad campaign in several states to oppose same-sex marriage. It also contributed more than $2 million to fund Proposition 8, a 2008 California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the state.
NOM also donated more than $1.5 million to Stand for Marriage Maine, a group that rallied voters in 2009 to pass Proposition 1, which overturned legislation legalizing gay marriage that was passed earlier that year.
Maine ethics committee investigating NOM’s fundraising tactics in that race has fought to have NOM disclose its donors and has rejected several appeals to drop the review.
College Republicans president Tiernan Kane ’11 did not respond to a request for comment.
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