Maine Heterosexual Supremacists Losing Money Battle

The campaign finance report filing deadline passed yesterday and the heterosexual supremacists who are trying to prevent Maine's marriage equality law from going into effect were forced to reveal their pathetic fundraising numbers.

Yesterday, NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality reported it raised $2.7 million from nearly 12,000 donors.

The AP coverage of the money race:

Meanwhile, Stand for Marriage Maine, which petitioned to get the repeal measure on the ballot, reported it had collected $1.1 million and spent more than $941,000 on its campaign. The group also said it has debts of more than $419,000. No on 1 reported no debts.

[...]

Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for NO on 1, said the figures show the amount of support is "amazing, and folks are excited about the opportunity to protect marriage equality for our citizens."

A message left with a Stand for Marriage Maine spokesman was not immediately returned.

Stand for Marriage Maine has drawn criticism from a group active in last year's successful gay marriage referendum in California. Californians Against Hate claims some organizations contributing to the repeal campaign are circumventing state law by not reporting the names of the donors. The ethics commission is investigating the complaint.

[...]

Stand for Marriage's report listed numerous contributions in the $100 to $500 range. Among its biggest contributors were the National Organization for Marriage of Princeton, N.J., which accounted for about $425,000, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, which gave more than $270,000.

Emphasis added by MadProfessah. So, if you do the math, the heterosexual supremacists attempting to deny marriage equality to all of Maine received more than one third of their money from one out-of-state source, the *cough* Mormon-front group *cough* National Organization for Marriage. Combined with the money from the Catholic Diocese of Portland, more than half of the Yes on 1 money comes from religious extremists.

Yes on 1 has a paltry $66k of on hand, while NO on 1 has over $460k for the last twenty days of the campaign.

This is no time to get complacent, the Money Bomb For Maine Marriage Equality is in effect until October 15, 2009.