| You will note the last link took you to the main page for Proposition 8 and lo and behold the major financiers for the campaign (pro and con) are all listed.
These pages truly are a treasure trove of information when you enter them.
What's so cool about these pages is you can download all of the campaign finance data on these organizations in an Excel Spreadsheet (see the little "download these results in excel" link)!
And then if you look at this information it truly is a treasure trove of data, so much so that someone could spend months tracking down all of the connections herein.
Here's just one little tidbit I've found so far just with cursory examination:
If you look at these spreadsheets, the data includes the name, the company, and the position of the person if it's an individual giving the donation.
I'm particularly interested in high profile corporate donors to the campaign to keep gay people as second class citizens. Here is just one item:
In the Protectmarriage.com section on the website, you will notice a $1,000 contribution from one Tamara Seymour, who is the Chief Financial Officer of Favrville, Inc.
To me, I know some of these are not all big fish but some of the stuff I'm finding -- with even cursory inspection still raises interesting questions. While people have the right to donate to whatever causes they wish, what are people in the supposed positions of being responsible corporate officials, theoretically accountable to the public and stakeholders of all kinds, doing attacking fundamental civil rights of a large group of people in a compaign like this?
If you look at the main page of the Favrville website, it bills itself as a purveyor of "cancer treatment technologies". Its business would not seem to be to weigh in one way or another on the same sex marriage equality battle.
Does Favrville wish to be associated via its CFO with an ugly bigoted campaign to deny same sex couples the same benefits as any other married couple has? I have not written Favrille yet, but I surely will.
Meanwhile there's hundreds of other entries in these spreadsheets to track down. It's not so much that the money sources themselves are a huge pile of information, but the various connections and research links are.
Blenders cannot go wrong in downloading and tracking down some of the money sources in the battle to deny Californians true marriage equality at last.
We know the usual suspects.
I firmly believe that those who give money to deny us equality (especially corporations) ought to at least be asked to publically answer for their positions. |
