October 21, 2008
Kossacks Target Mormons for Harassment, "Opposition Research"
Kinda like what they pulled on Joe the Plumber, but with a more specific policy goal in mind, crushing a proposition against gay marriage by targeting those who have contributed to the campaign.
So what am I asking you to do?Some distributed research.
There is a list of a bunch of Mormon donors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign (in case that one goes down, here's a mirror with slightly worse formatting.
Here's what I'm asking for:
This list contains information about those who are big donors to the Yes on 8 campaign--donors to the tune of at least $1,000 dollars. And, as you can see, there are a lot of them. It also indicates if they're Mormon or not.
If you're interested in defeating the religious right and preserving marriage equality, here's how you can help:
Find us some ammo.
Use any LEGAL tool at your disposal. Use OpenSecrets to see if these donors have contributed to...shall we say...less than honorable causes, or if any one of these big donors has done something otherwise egregious. If so, we have a legitimate case to make the Yes on 8 campaign return their contributions, or face a bunch of negative publicity.
There are a crapload of donors on this list--so please focus on the larger ones first. $5,000 or more is a good threshold to start with.
Feel free to use Lexis-Nexis searches as well for anything useful, especially given that these people are using "morality" as their primary motivation to support Prop 8...if you find anything that belies that in any way...well, you know what to do.
If you find anything good, please email it to:
equalityresearch at gmail dot com.Here's the bottom line for me: if someone is willing to contribute thousands of dollars to a campaign to take away legal rights from some very dear friends of mine, they had damn well make sure their lives are beyond scrutiny--because I, for one, won't take it lying down.
You of course understand the basic message being touted by this thug. He's all for the freedom of speech, just not for those who hold different beliefs. He firmly believes his opinion is more valid than that of others, and he wants ammunition to blackmail those with dissenting opinions into silence.
I think Jonah Goldberg had a word for folks like this, didn't he?
Don't forget, this is no garden-variety thug; he's also, and I quote:
CA DSCC elected delegate, AD-42
Member, CDP Platform Committee
Vice-President, Los Angeles County Young Democrats
And, as it appears, he's been going door to door in Nevada, telling a state full of religious people how Comrade Obama respects their beliefs and faith and right to express themselves.
While of course calling for jihad against them once he gets home.
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty at October 21, 2008 12:28 PMApparently the Constitution protects only me and not thee.
Posted by: Penfold at October 21, 2008 02:02 PMIt's sort of weird: aren't Democrats supposed to be tolerant, at least a little more tolerant in general? They are acting just like Christian political action committees. Come on, is there no different between an illuminati activist and a neocon activist anymore?
Posted by: A.B. at October 21, 2008 04:32 PMMaybe they can do us a favor and dig up some dirt on Harry Reid while they're at it...after all, he's a Mormon. (At least he claims to be a Mormon...probably is, to the same extent that Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are Catholics, which isn't very much.)
Posted by: salfter at October 21, 2008 05:21 PMCy, what I do not understand is why is it we cannot find out who these thugs are, publish their addresses so that maybe public minded individuals could arrange visits to possibly convince them of the error of their ways. Or get the flock out of town.
Posted by: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III at October 21, 2008 05:38 PMIf you don't belong to the Church of Obama, then the Kossacks are coming for you!
Posted by: C-C-G at October 21, 2008 05:47 PMaren't Democrats supposed to be tolerant, at least a little more tolerant in general?
Dude, that's so 1970's.
Posted by: PA at October 21, 2008 06:56 PM"Dude, that's so 1970's. "
Heh.
(Although I remember the 70's, and progressives weren't so tolerant and respectful back then either.)
Posted by: pst314 at October 21, 2008 08:15 PMI remember the 70's, and progressives weren't so tolerant and respectful back then either.
Lefties are only tolerant of other lefties... anyone else is not worthy of tolerance.
Posted by: C-C-G at October 21, 2008 08:26 PMYou people don't get it. We don't care how you live your life, just don't constantly put your alternative lifestyles in our face and demand that we accept it. I have never heard of a school taking a group of students out of school for any normal wedding of a teacher, but they feel it's okay for a gay marriage, thats pure crap.
The schools don't hand out pamplets stating that marriage between a man and a woman should be accepted, yet they are handing out pamplets for gay marriages to the young kids. Whats next porn videos during recess and alcoholic beverages for lunch? Get real people if you want the normal people to shut up about there opinions on gay marriages then you shut up on your side about making everyone accept your opinion. Free speech is free speech for everyone not just those who want to corrupt the minds of the innocent youth. The world is becomming a screwed up confusing place as it is,lets let the parents teach their children at home about what they feel is appropriate behavior for marriage. At what point did we decide that the schools and the government should tell teach our children things we don't want taught without our knowledge or approval.You don't want Mormonism taught in the schools, if any teacher had you child bring home Mormon literatue and you found out that the missionarys came and taught your child during an assembly you would all freak out and yet you feel it's okay for you to teach about gay marriages and we should take it sitting down. Talk about double standards free speech is for everyone unless you don't agree with the radicals that want to corrupt everything good and decent in the world.
I've always known that the homosexual lobby is full of thugs that is just waiting to force our children to accept that depraved, psuedo-cannibalistic doctrine. Hopefully, we can eventually recriminalize it, for the sake of our families. I think that lisa hansen is just one example of the stupidities and unfounded accusations against Christians that comprises the homosexual lobby.
These people have GOT to be on welfare. They spend WAY too much time proselytizing their doctrine to be able to afford some time to do anything else.
Posted by: Objective Scrutator at October 22, 2008 05:02 PM
