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How You Like Them Apples

Via MPR

Group fighting marriage amendment raises $1.2 million

St. Paul, Minn. — The largest group working to defeat a proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage said it has raised more than $1.2 million in cash and in-kind contributions.

A campaign finance report provided by Minnesotans United for All Families shows it received contributions from more than 5,100 people in 2011.

I think the largest mistake for the Republican Legislature in 2011 was passing the marriage amendment. This stories is exactly why I think so. This is proof that there is already $1.2 million that will be used to demonize and attack each and every (well almost all) Republican candidate running in 2012.

I’ve challenged the pro-amendment groups and supporters on if they will match dollar for dollar and hour for hour of work, but I’m told not to worry.

For some reason, I am.

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3 Responses to “How You Like Them Apples”

  1. J. Ewing says:
    January 30, 2012 at 10:19 am

    I guess it depends upon the degree to which you believe money can sell a basically unsellable idea. It isn’t like convincing us that we ought to raise our own taxes to get “clean water” even though the only clean water is little jars at million-dollar finger-painting classes.

  2. Andy says:
    January 30, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    3 words to describe how money can sell an unsellable idea:

    Governor Mark Dayton

    If you are a state rep candidate, do you want phone calls and mailers saying you oppose equal rights hammering you? And oh, the TV ads. The websites. Its going to be an ugly ugly battle. And we, the idiots, wanted to drag this thing out and spend over a year educating people…. If its a slam dunk issue as the supporters say, why did we need so long.

    Pandering to the social conservatives is what I say, and it will probably cost us at least one majority.

  3. J. Ewing says:
    January 30, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    You talk as if the social conservatives are wrong on the issue. Surely that’s not the case? I would be curious as to how much opposition was mounted in every other state that put it on the ballot, since it passed in every one.