Friday, January 09, 2009
Welcome to the Jungle
Let me be clear - any actual threats made to financial supporters of the homophobic Proposition 8 in California should be treated as the criminal acts that they are. However, if you wrote a check to the campaign and now are feeling uncomfortable that there are a large number of people who are pissed at you, tough noogies.
Someday I'll collect all the vile things that have been sent to me over the years for taking political and policy positions. They aren't pretty. ¶ 8:23 PM
The Proposition 8 campaign has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California laws that require campaign contributors to disclose personal information, claiming donors to the campaign have been threatened.The system needs more transparency, not less. The notion that campaign contributions are private speech is ludicrous.
The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, cites numerous examples of threatening e-mails, phone calls and postcards – including death threats – allegedly made by opponents of the November ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in the state.
Ron Prentice, chairman of the Yes on 8 campaign, charged the harassment was made possible by the state's "unconstitutional campaign finance disclosure rules."
California's Political Reform Act, which voters approved in 1974, requires the name, occupation and employer of any individual who makes a campaign contribution of $100 or more.
Someday I'll collect all the vile things that have been sent to me over the years for taking political and policy positions. They aren't pretty. ¶ 8:23 PM
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One just has to read the comments following the Sacramento Bee report to see who the bullies and intimidators are. It isn't the gays.
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