The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Microsoft made a big splash a few weeks ago by donating $100,000 to the Approve 71 campaign. Indeed it was a significant and much-needed contribution by a major Washington employer. But the really big story is that Microsoft's gift was only one of 4,175 donations made by Washingtonians from across the state (see map). In fact, 85% of all cash donations to Approve 71 have been made by Washingtonians for a total of $1.16 million. Excluding the Microsoft gift, 89% of WA donations were for amounts below the average donation of $253. In the main, the Approve 71 campaign has been funded by small Washington donors.
In stark contrast, only 34% of donations to the anti-domestic partnership campaign totaling $104,233 have come from Washingtonians. The other 66% comes from James Dobson's Colorado-based Focus on the Family (FOTF) and National Organization for Marriage. FOTF made two cash dumps into Washington state. The first was $200,000 into the PAC Vote Reject on R-71 via the local FOTF affiliate Family Policy Institute of Washington (FPIW). The second was last-minute direct independent spending of $91,852 on radio ads, etc. by Focus on the Family Action. Is it fair to say that James Dobson is the reject campaign?
The anti-domestic partnership campaign has also received an undisclosed amount of in-kind assistance from the undisclosed entity that paid for Protect Marriage Washington's signature gatherers.
~~~Reminder from WAFST: Only 20% of voters have mailed their ballots. Your vote and those of your friends can make the difference. Don't hold onto your ballot, mail it today. Remind your friends. VOTE APPROVE ON REFERENDUM 71
The monthly campaign expenditure numbers came out last night and are reported on the Washington Public Disclosure Commission's website. As predicted, radical-right extremists have dumped last-minute money into the race. Family Policy Institute of Washington plopped $200,000 into the mysterious new PAC called "Vote Reject on R-71" that appeared late last week. FPIW bills itself as an affiliate of James Dobson's Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins' Family Research Council. Dobson is famous for advocating the paddling of children, and Perkins for his connections to the Klan. The Vote Reject PAC is run by Dave Mortenson, a seasoned and savvy conservative campaign consultant.
Referendum 71 is the Washington state ballot measure asking voters to approve or reject the domestic partnership law passed by a wide margin by the Washington Legislature in May and signed by Gov. Gregoire. The law makes domestic partnerships parallel to civil marriage at the state level, providing vital rights to straight senior and same-sex domestic partners that married people have like pension inheritance and the right to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner.
First glances indicate that the Approve Referendum 71 campaign has greatly out-fundraised the opposition, and sure enough the David and Goliath comparisons are already being made by Larry Stickney. But don't get too comfortable just yet. Campaigns have 5 days to deposit donation checks, so we won't know until perhaps Tuesday, October 20th just how much the opposition really raked in right before the large donor ban took effect on October 12th. The large donor ban means that the most money any individual can donate after Oct. 12th is $5,000 (regardless of how much they donated before Oct. 12). There is also the distinct possibility that an out-of-state enterprise like National Organization for Marriage will swoop in an provide tv time and ads for the opposition "unasked". You know I've been right about these things before. The Approve 71 campaign still needs your support.
Half of Reject's $200,000 has already been spent on radio ad time. Seven local stations have accepted money to run these anti-child, anti-family radio ads.
Meanwhile, true to form, a substantial proportion of expenditures made by Larry Stickney's Protect Marriage Washington and Gary Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC have gone to salary for Stickney, attorney's fees and maintenance of Randall's redundant website. However, Stickney has spent about $10,000 on yard signs, and Randall about $500 on postage. It isn't entirely clear who paid for Protect Marriage Washington's lurid fliers or theocratic tv ads (here and here).
On the Approve Referendum 71 side, Washington Families Standing Together has received just over one million dollars in cash contributions to date. WAFST has invested about $400,00 of this into tv ad time and smaller but substantial amounts into mailings and phone banking costs.
I've posted a few of the radio and tv ads from both sides below the fold. As you listen and watch, notice how the Approve 71 campaign found real Washingtonians to speak for the domestic partnership law. The opposition had to hire actors.
A deep concern that we have is that Judge Julie Spector is openly homosexual and activist. She is found on a list of openly homosexual elected officials. In her campaign to be elected to her seat in 2000, she was quoted in the September 13, 2000, edition of the Seattle Weekly, calling herself a "dyke".
It is impossible to believe an openly homosexual activist judge could rule fairly in this case. We are considering our next step.
For Gary, Judge Spector's sexual orientation by definition tosses her into the "activist" category. Because, you know, only militant heterosexist theocrats can be considered impartial... This tells us something about Gary, and how sexuality apparently (over)rules his rational brain, and so he assumes it does the same for everyone else.
Sad that Gary won't even wait to hear the ruling and examine Judge Spector's legal reasoning before finding her guilty of ulterior motives. It tells me that he doesn't really care about justice, only about winning. And he'll smear anyone to win, apparently. Because you see for Gary, revealing that someone calls themselves a dyke is a smear. Personally, I find it rakishly charming. :)
Now might be a good time to review Oregon Gary's history of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2008 Washington judicial primary elections. He wrote such learned evaluations about the candidates as this:
Holly Hill has the support of women, race and NARAL.
Les Ponomarchuk is the current court commissioner. We do not know a lot about him or his judicial philosophy but it appears he is taking a more conservative approach in seeking endorsements.
Rob Lawrence-Berry appears to be well qualified and has a mainstream church background. However, David Elofson appears to be a little more conservative.
One of Gary's picks, the heterosexually-married Michael Hecht, did actually win and is now a Pierce County Superior Court judge. Or was. He's on probation pending the outcome of his September trial. He's been accused of using racist slurs, stealing campaign signs of his opponents, hiring male prostitutes (paying in both cash and legal services) and threatening at least one of them with violence. Great pick, Gary, thanks! We should all trust Oregon Gary's wisdom about Washington judges.
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's My Daily Denial (his blog posts). Gary Randall is a key architect of Referendum 71, which asks voters to reject or approve Washington's domestic partnership law.
Today's issue featured an exceptional display of multi-layered denial on Gary's Part. He is in denial about what domestic partnerships are (by definition, "not marriage"). He is in denial about how a hefty majority of the legislature and the governor have reasoned that fairness is good for Washingtonians, and the vast majority of Washingtonians agree. And he is in denial that it was only via Protect Marriage Washington's lies and deceit and the contra-legal policies of the Secretary of State that his illegitimate referendum qualified for the ballot, if only just barely at that.
As I was reading it dawned on me that Gary has created this elaborate mental and fundraising mechanism not to fend off some gargantuan mortal enemy, but to persecute a mere 5,906 pairs of domestic partners, or 11,812 people. In a state of about 6,668,200 people, that's only 0.18% of the population.
Gary Randall is fixated on actively persecuting 0.18% of the population, the tiniest of minorities. Estimates are that this campaign will cost both sides in the millions of dollars. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being able to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing a partner with a pension they've already paid for should one die. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being notified if their partner is the victim of a crime. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing death benefits to a partner if they are a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty.
How sad that Gary Randall is spending his retirement beating up the puny kid next door. And spending other people's money to do it.
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Oh to what depths have Gary Randall and Larry Stickney been reduced! You know they've hit rock bottom when they resort to quoting a lefty blogger (after misspelling his name) for "evidence" that the Washington Secretary of State is engaged in, as they so prosaically accuse, "skullduggery".
UPDATE on the Unhinged: Gary Randall just posted an "Open Letter to the Secretary of State", which links to this missive penned on his behalf by Obama-birther (twice) attorney Stephen Pidgeon. The letter begins with a quote from Josef Stalin and ends with the accusation, "Apparently, the personal politics of those employed in your office are allowed to trump the integrity of this process. This is an outrage." Huh. I thought the outrage was that when you know you have nothing to show before a court of law, you stoop to the court of public opinion. But what do I know, eh?
Gary Randall's blog posts are always a walk on the wild side, but today's is a particular hoot.
We are particularly concerned about the several thousand [petition signers] deemed "not registered" voters and the 501 signatures they say don't match the signature on file.
Yeah, I'd have expected much better quality from Gary's paid signature mercenaries. ->eye roll<- Have you forgotten your hired gun already, Gary, they guy who baldfaced lied to gullible voters? Just your style, wasn't he? I bet he did a bang-up job making sure that everyone who signed his sheet (a.k.a. signed his paycheck) was a registered Washington voter. By the way, neither your PAC nor Larry Stickney's has admitted paying for the mercenaries or receiving their services as in-kind assistance from another entity. Don't for a moment think that we haven't noticed.
Here's a video of Gary earnestly discussing the matter.
Gary also whines that he's being described as "anti-gay" in a press report. He says
I know there are those in the Seattle press who understand that at the heart of the matter, we are not "anti-gay rights," but are pro-traditional or natural marriage....I, nor most of the tens of thousands of people who are standing for and actively defending marriage, are "anti-gay rights." We are pro-marriage.
The PI got it right. When "pro-marriage" equals attacking the legal and financial stability of over 5,800 Washington families only because many of them are gay, then by your own definition you are anti-gay. Own it, Gary. But this is my favorite part because it is an outright lie that is debunked by Gary's own words and actions:
It was only when homosexual activists began to demand that marriage be deconstructed and family be redefined, that we became active.
ROTFL! Oregon Gary was instrumental in the effort to repeal the LGBT anti-discrimination law in 2006, a full year before the measly initial form of domestic partnerships was instituted in Washington. Remember R-65, Gary, and your ignominious three-way with Tim Eyman and Pastor Joe Fuiten? How conveniently soon you forget! Your current anti-family activism wasn't sparked by any particular domestic partnership law. The truth is that you hate it when gay people are treated fairly, and have dedicated your senescent years to persecuting them. Admit it Gary. Tell the truth for once in your life.
Protect Marriage Washington has filed their Summary, Full Report Receipts and Expenditures, or "C4 report", for July, 2009. Protect Marriage Washington is the organization trying to force a referendum vote to repeal the new domestic partnership law in Washington. To preserve the DP law, voters must vote APPROVED if Referendum 71 qualifies for the ballot. See Washington Families Standing Together for details.
PMW's C4 report contains some items of interest.
1. Larry Stickney again received a handsome salary, and even got his son in on the cash action this time.
2. Protect Marriage Washington failed to name people they accepted cash contributors from in early August. They are identified only by their initials.
3. There remains no indication who their mercenaries paid signature gatherers were, or who paid them.
Gary Randall posted a fundraising plea August 5th on his redundant Referendum 71 vanity blog. In it he claims
I have included the latest communication from the Secretary [of State]'s office.
Except that wasn't the latest communication. It was the Sec'y of State's blog post from August 3rd, which is the last time that the Referendum 71 validation rate looked marginally decent. If Gary really had posted the latest communication from the Sec'y of State's office, he would have had to reprint this embarrassing comment from the Sec'y of State's August 4th blog post:
Election officials have processed another 5,815 Referendum 71 signatures, rejecting 14.4 percent...The error rate was the highest of any seen during the first three days of scrutiny.
Since 12.43% is the invalidation rate above which the referendum will fail to qualify, I guess he hoped to hoodwink a few donors into giving a few last dollars before word got out of the ever-increasing uncertainty over the referendum's fate.
Oh, and regarding that redundant vanity blog - Gary is continuing his habit of 'paying himself' with Faith & Freedom PAC money for running it. According to the Public Disclosure Commission, on July 29th he faithfully made the third payment of $1,179 from the PAC to the organization that he pays himself a salary from. So far he's transferred $3,477 this way, representing 40% of all PAC expenditures so far ($3,477/$8,648). As his would-be donors watch the signature invalidation rate increase towards possible referendum failure, I wonder if they'll think Gary utilized their donations wisely. $3,477 would have bought a lot of signatures from a petition mercenary.
Tuesday evening Oregon voter Gary Randall announced his attack on Washington state law. He is trying to block the Secretary of State from making public the public documents known as Referendum 71 petitions.
Let us remember what Gary Randall is trying to do with Referendum 71. He is trying to prevent The Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009 (SB 5688) from going into effect, thus denying vital protections to elderly heterosexual domestic partners and same-sex domestic partners. As The Olympian stated in SB 5688 is about fairness, not gay marriage:
What [SB 5688] does is give same-sex partners and some heterosexual senior couples equal access to laws available to married couples.
Examples?
The Senate Bill gives same-sex couples:
• The right to use sick leave to care for a domestic partner.
• The right to wages and benefits when a domestic partner is injured, and to unpaid wages upon the death of a domestic partner. ¦ The right to unemployment and disability insurance benefits.
• The right to workers' compensation coverage.
• Insurance rights, including rights under group policies, policy rights after the death of a domestic partner, conversion rights and continuing coverage rights.
• Rights related to adoption, child custody and child support.
• Business succession rights.
[...]
Critics will portray this legislation as special rights for gays and lesbians. It's not. It all about legal parity, and extends those same rights to unmarried heterosexual couples where at least one partner is at least 62 years of age.
At its core, Senate Bill 5688 is all about fairness and equity.
Gary's actions are a transparent effort to get public pity points in advance because he knows that the people who signed the petition will not be harassed when their names go public, as he loves to predict. He never misses the opportunity to cry wolf.
He's likely also trying to keep the names hidden so that people are unable to prove that they've been duped by his paid signature-gathering mercenaries.
Thank you for praying for Washington state! Enough signatures have been gathered to try and repeal SB5688 (Everything but Marriage).
God proved He doesn't need certain shepherds from certain churches to get His will done!
mmmROW! What a piece of work! Ken's definition of the Christian way is apparently to take a public swipe at your brother Christian when he disagrees with you about the wisdom of certain political involvements. (But he doesn't really disagree with you Ken, because you yourself showed doubt about the referendum early on.)
The root of this litter box dust-up is the very public refusal by Pastor Joe Fuiten and other conservative Christians to involve themselves with the referendum. Ken is so blinded by ambition and competition that he can't see clear to agree to disagree with people who should be colleagues, and who he really didn't disagree with early on anyway. Sad.
And are we surprised that Ken doesn't seem to notice that he was among the shepherds God did without?
Round 1 of The Radical-Right Catfight happened last week when Pastor Gary Randall put on his best passive-aggressive and said in response to Fuiten's comments on the sad state of the radical-right
I don't think people understand why he's trying to undermine the whole effort. Some people have said it's because he's not leading the charge. I wouldn't say that, but that has been said.
UPDATE: Check out the lies being spewed by signature gatherers in Seattle today, after the jump.
UPDATE 2: Chris Mason has posted the entire 9 minute video (thx Chris!). I've updated the post below. It is clear that the referendum mercenary was telling people that this is a yes/no vote on legalizing gay marriage. That is a baldfaced lie. R-71 is only about repealing an incremental domestic partnership law.H/T Joshalot
Wow. Just wow. This is what false Christianity looks like. Gary Randall and Larry Stickney, sponsors of the anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71, have a lot to answer for. This video was recorded by Chris Mason from Driving Equality a few days ago at the Port Angeles, WA Wal-Mart. While watching, keep in mind that Referendum 71 has NOTHING to do with marriage licenses.
[The paid signature gatherer] approached a woman and asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. When she said yes, he handed her the clipboard to sign the referendum. She though she was signing in favor of equal marriage. He tricked her, right in front of me, on camera. I called him out on it.
He said to her:
Did you have a chance to sign our petition yet? We're giving you an opportunity to decide whether or not you're in favor of giving homosexual couples legal marriage licenses. Not just the same rights as married people, but a marriage license too. Do you have an opinion on that, yes no or don't care?
The woman said yes, that she will sign, and he handed her the clipboard. It was obvious to me that she was signing what she thought was a petition in favor or giving same-sex couples marriage licenses. So I asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. She said that she did.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" emblazoned across the top with the following lies printed directly beneath
• The legislature just passed a law that effectively makes same sex marriages legal. By signing R-71 we can reverse that decision and protect marriage as between one man and one woman."
• If same-sex marriage becomes law, public schools K-12 will be forced to teach that same-sex marriage and homosexuality are normal... even over the objections of parents. Sign R-71 to protect children.
Gary Randall (pictured right) is having a conniption fit. Pastor Joe Fuiten, the former Director of Gary's Faith & Freedom Network and the very person who hired Gary into that cash cow position has had the temerity to tell the truth about Washington's radical right.
"As a political movement, it is a leaderless army milling about the field," acknowledged Pastor Joseph Fuiten, one of the area's most visible leaders on the Christian right.
Randall stammers in reply, bubububut "2400 people gathered on the steps of the Capitol, in the rain, for marriage." True, but just a few years ago they were able to amass 20,000.
After flouting Washington state law for 6 days, Oregonian and tax evader Gary Randall finally filed his campaign expense report for June yesterday. From it we learn the same lesson we learned from the June report filed by his Referendum 71 comrade Larry Stickney: Gary and Larry's priorities are apparently to compensate themselves first and foremost.
To date, 49.8% of all R-71 expenditures made by Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC has gone back into Gary Randall's coffers (Faith & Freedom Network). Likewise, 44% of all R-71 expenditures made by Stickney's Protect Marriage Washington were to pay Stickney a rich salary.
Priorities, priorities...
Meanwhile, while these guys kick back and crack a cold one, I hear their worker bees have exhausted the church hives and, still coming up short, have had to come out into the light of day to seek signature gold. So now WalMart is apparently buzzing with bigotry. Are fair-minded Washingtonians letting their own calm and reasoned voices be heard at WalMart? "Excuse me Mr. Voter-Looking-Over-the-Petition, but if you sign that you'll be hurting my family directly. Please don't." The 1st Amendment is a beautiful thing, especially when employed calmly and conversationally.
UPDATE July 16th @ 8:45 am PST: Pastor Randall's lawbreaking continues into Day 6, according to PDC website.
UPDATE2 July 16th @ 1:00 pm PST: F&F PAC finally submitted their report about an hour ago (and 6 days late!) claiming they thought they were to use the candidate reporting schedule, according to a PDC employee. A poor excuse for Randall, who has run his PAC in Washington for years and surly knows the ropes.
In June Gary paid himself another $1,179 for his redundant website. To date, Gary Randall's payments to himself amount to a whopping 49.8% of all R-71 expenditures made by F&F PAC. Yet as he exhorts people to go collect those signatures, he seems to still be sitting on over $3,000 in unspent donations. Today's choice words from Gary
Expenses are continuing during the collection of petitions. Thank you for your financial support.
It's worse than I originally thought. A brief recap: Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). Gary Randall claims that his Faith & Freedom PAC "is presently, exclusively committed to Referendum 71. All donations to the PAC are used for the Referendum 71 project."
This past Monday, a PDC employee left a message with F&F PAC, reminding them that their expenditure report was overdue. By law, the deadline was July 10th. Since then, F&F PAC has filed two more contribution reports, but still no expenditure report.
Here is why the expenditure report is so important. Besides telling us how donor contributions were spent, attached to that report is the In-Kind donation report. In-kind donations may include other entities providing you with paid signature gatherers, for example. Until F&F PAC files its missing expense report with the in-kind contribution attachment, Washington voters won't know whether they've been hoodwinked by Randall & his local collaborator Larry Stickney in their claims that this is a local grassroots campaign.
Monday, Gary Randall was all a-flutter because two of his Referendum 71 signature gatherers had their pictures taken as they sat at a petition table.
Monday, July 13, 2009 Agressive Opposition at Wal-Mart ...Then this older woman came by, very aggressively against us, speaking in an angry tone, using language I do not use. Eric said that he would go in and talk to the manager, which he did. A man with her took our pictures. Then some time later the police came telling us we were trespassing and that we had to leave.
I presume that Gary intended his readers to conclude this was bad, or he wouldn't have reported it. But then Tuesday morning he recommended that his followers do the very thing he clucked over the day before:
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Video Camera Wards Off Harassment ...one of our signature gatherers gave us a great idea yesterday. She emailed me saying that she has found that if she keeps her video camera with her and begins taking video of those who are verbally assaulting her, they leave very quickly. If you have any video of this kind of behavior, please send it to us at info@faithandfreedom.us.
So fair-minded people taking pictures is bad, but if an anti-family Garyity can get an angry ho-mo-sekshulist on tape all is forgiven?
There goes Gary Cottontail,
Flippin' down the floppin' trail,
Flippity floppity
Double-standards are his way...
I think it only fair to remind Gary to be careful in encouraging his followers to get too shutterbuggy. Some of them just don't know when to stop.
Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). A PDC employee with whom I just spoke confirms that PDC has not received Faith & Freedom PAC's expenditure report for June. It was due 3 days ago, on July 10th. Even Larry Stickney managed to get his embarrassing report in on time.
Is Gary Randall trying to hide something, like this or this perhaps? Does he hate Washington's sunshine laws? Or is he just a bad manager? Or all the above? You would think that after the embarrassment of falling behind in signature gathering, Gary would try to make a good impression by dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.
Two weeks to the signature gathering deadline for the anti-family Referendum 71, and Gary Randall finally released a progress report.
Conservatively, we have a little over 75,000 signatures to date.
With an ultimate goal of 150,000 signatures, it might seem that Gary's glass is half full. However, the petition has been in circulation for a full month now, or 2/3 of the time they had to collect signatures. If Oregon Gary's Washington operatives had been keeping pace, they should have already collected about 100,000 signatures. Gary Randall is falling behind.
Consider also that most of the captive audiences (churches, political groups) would have been mined for signatures by now. So where will the other half come from? A public that massively supports domestic partnerships? I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's telling that Gary must sic the Knights of Columbus on the state this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to scrounge signatures. I wonder if all that donor cash spent on Larry Stickney's opulent salary and Gary' Randall's frivolous website would have been better spent on paid signature-gatherers?
CORRECTION: An astute Blend reader has notified me that the reporting deadline for expenses incurred in June by referendum PACs is July 10th. I've re-read the PDC documents, and he is correct. I have, therefore, made a regrettable error in calling out Stickney and Randall for not yet reporting their printing and related expenses. They have not earned the accusation of hiding their campaign expenditures. I am sorry for this error and I do apologize.
Now the question is, do I yank the diary, or leave it up with corrections? After some deliberation, I have decided to leave it up but strike out the erroneous text and correct the title. This is my way of accepting responsibility for my mistake. However, I will remove the diary entirely if either Gary Randall or Larry Stickney request me to via e-mail.
Larry Stickney...said he printed 60,000 of the R-71 jumbo petitions June 5 and circulated all but 2,000 by Friday.
Gary Randall subsequently pitched an additional plan to "[P]ut out a large mailing...to over 50,000 homes that are known to be social conservatives. We want mail a petition to every home on that list.". That plan would have required printing 50,000 additional petitions. The fate of the plan remains unremarked upon by Randall.
So we know that Stickney's and/or Randall's organization(s) paid for the printing of 60,000 petitions, and perhaps up to another 50,000. To date, however, Stickney's organization Protect Marriage Washington has onlyreported $3.61 in expenses. Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC, which is "dedicated" to the referendum effort, has onlyreported $1,553.51 in expenses, $1,119 of which Gary Randall apparently paid to himself to set up a redundant website. Neither organization reports design or printing expenses. It's hard to believe that 60,000 to 110,000 petitions got printed for free.
The anti-child, anti-family folks at Protect Marriage Washington (Larry Stickney) and its non-cooperative competitor Faith & Freedom PAC (Gary Randall) have "released" a video. It has the catchy title "R-71: Lawmakers Encourage Christian Participation!" and features state senator Val Stevens and representative Matt Shea.
I'd post the video here, but apparently they don't want this gem to go viral (because who would want a promotional video to have legs?). The video host gave me this message
Sorry. The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain.
To view it, you'll have to go to PMW's home office or to a video hosting website that Gary linked to in a recent email (interestingly he hasn't posted the video on any of his several websites.). Note that Larry and Gary are so much on the outs that Gary stillrefuses to link to any PMW web page, or even refer to the existence of "that other organization".
I wonder who masterminded this brilliant video? Whoever it was plopped Stevens and Shea in a funeral parlor sitting room and gave Stevens whole agonizing minutes to haltingly read Larry Stickney's debunked bwaking points from a note pad.
The video opens with a crotch shot of the gay divorcee Shea. Watch Shea's eyes wander as Stevens plods through her reading assignment. I'll warn you, the video is a real snoozer. Heads will nod in darkened sanctuaries. I recommend that clergy show it before communion if they use real wine.
Bonus track: Watch Larry Stickney admit that there isn't enough non-dominionist church support to get this referendum on the ballot.
An important question has been left unasked in all the hullabaloo surrounding the renegade WhoSigned.org. Namely, if the anti-family, anti-child forces behind Referendum 71 fail to gather enough signatures to submit it to the Secretary of State, what happens to the names, addresses and e-mails of people who signed the petition (the petition asks for e-mails even though they're not legally required)?
By law, referendum backers can do whatever they want with them. Including sell them.
Gary Randall is on record admitting that data from failed petitions go right into the Faith & Freedom Network's database and are later swapped with other organizations or used in-house for fundraising and other solicitations. Such lists are so valuable to a foundering organization like his that in 2006 he and then-ally Pastor Joe Fuiten got into a public hissy fit* with Tim Eyman over the control of petitions from their failed effort to repeal the gay civil rights law via Referendum 65.
* Gary deleted the pertinent Faith & Freedom blog post after I discussed it here.
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's 
Protect Marriage Washington has filed their 
After sitting out the Referendum 71 signature drive due to ill health, Ken Hutcherson is back with claws bared...for his brother Christians.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" 
