NOM Pours Money Into New York Race

[William769]

The National Organization for Marriage announced it would spend $75,000 to help defeat New York state assemblymember David Weprin, a Democrat who voted for marriage equality now running in a special election to replace ex-congressman Anthony Weiner.

The New York Times reports on the considerable spending, which consists of $26,000 for direct-mail advertising against Weprin and $19,000 in support of Republican candidate Bob Turner, a retired cable television executive opposed to marriage equality. NOM also intends to spend $30,000 on phone calls, more mailing and a get-out-the-vote effort before the election this Tuesday.

“The spending by the organization is significant in what is a relatively low-budget race in the Ninth Congressional District, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens,” according to the Times. “Mr. Weprin and Mr. Turner had raised only about $650,000 between the two of them by late August, according to campaign finance filings, and the group’s $45,000 outlay is the largest so-called independent expenditure in the race to date.”

Compared to NOM's independent expenditures, the Human Rights Campaign, one of five groups that led the effort to pass the marriage equality law in New York, contributed $5,000 to Weprin, the maximum allowed for its federal PAC. The group sent e-mail blasts to members asking them to canvass and phonebank for its endorsed candidate. Democratic LGBT political clubs and elected officials also have endorsed and fund-raised for Weprin.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/08/NOM_Pours_Money_into_New_York_Race/

I find it strange that they are not "pouring" money into Candidates to defeat Republicans that voted for Gay marriage. Strange.

[closeupready]

1. Sort of like a Santorum-style jihad, huh?

:sarcasm: