Of $340,000 Raised to Fight Gay Marriage in Maine, Only $400 From In-State Donors

Poor Maine is suffering the indignity of a ballot referendum on equal marriage. Can you say, Proposition 8? As I predicted, All the usual suspects have been arriving: the Knights of Columbus, the Mormons, Maggie Gallagher's NOM group (of theScary Video), and the Roman Catholic church. The Sun Journal reports: "The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland contributed $100,000, the Knights of Columbus of Washington, D.C., chipped in $50,000 and Focus on the Family, a Christian group based in Colorado Springs, Colo., donated $31,000 to the political action committee seeking to repeal the gay marriage law. Nearly half of the group's fundraising, $160,000, came from the National Organization for Marriage, a New Jersey-based group." However, quite interestingly, the paper also reports that: "The campaign finance report also shows four Maine citizens contributed a total of $400 to the cause." Four people from the state in question donated $400 of the $340,000 the haters have raised. Full Story from Daily Kos

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