http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/02/following_the_money_disclosure.php"The central -- and unanswered -- question is: Why did a $30,354 in-kind donation Yes on 8 reported it received on Nov. 3 come out as a Nov. 4 contribution of $117,424 in the Mormon Church's filings? This week, SF Weekly requested all of the Mormon Church's paper filings made during the last 16 days of the campaign -- and, sure enough, there's a $30,354 donation the Church recorded making sometime on Nov. 3 or before. You can view that here:
LDS 497s.pdf
So, again, how did that donation grow four-fold by the time the Mormon Church got around to making its late January disclosures? David Bauer, the treasurer for the Protect Marriage Coalition, has no idea. When asked why there was a discrepancy between what he reported getting and the Church reported giving, he quickly replied, "If we could figure that out, their
and ours would agree."
Bauer conceded that he may well be forced to file an amendment restating how much his coalition really received. So, while the Mormon Church trumpeted that "Claims that the Church ... did not report all its contributions to the Protect Marriage Coalition are erroneous" on a press release, Bauer's answer belies that. So does the following data from the Protect Marriage Coalition.
According to this document, filed on Jan. 30, the Church contributed $45,816 to the Coalition between July 1 and Oct. 18 of last year.Yet, according to the Coalition's own filings, it received no contributions from the Mormon Church over this period."
If you go to the blog link, there are PDF and spreadsheet links there that are very damning.
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