Complaint looms against Minn. anti-gay-marriage amendment funders
Activists launch campaign against bill that would reduce tipped worke...
A campaign in Minnesota to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage has thus far generated more than $1 million from various religious groups and a coalition called Minnesota for Marriage, whose chief member is the National Organization for Marriage. Despite all the money coming in, however, only seven More…
The National Organization for Marriage reported raising more than $284,000 in 2011 to promote Minnesota’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but the group did not list any donors in its campaign finance disclosure filings, which were released Wednesday.
Kalley King Yanta, a former anchor for a Minneapolis-based television station and an anti-abortion-rights activist, has joined the Minnesota for Marriage group to anchor videos intended to convince Minnesotans to vote for the anti-gay-marriage amendment on the ballot in 2012. The videos — and Yanta — have come under More…
Four polls have been released this week showing different results among Minnesota’s electorate a year before the the 2012 vote on the controversial amendment to add a ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution.
With twelve months before a vote on a ballot measure that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution, activists on both sides of the issue are gearing up for tense campaigns. Anti-amendment forces have held a series of public fundraisers and meetings, while pro-amendment activists are More…
Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition advocating for passage of a 2012 vote on a constitutional same-sex marriage ban, launched a campaign Wednesday that will award people prizes for obtaining pledges to support the ban.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board will vote Tuesday to update its rules governing disclosure during a ballot campaign. Open government advocates are concerned the ruling could open loopholes just as the state nears the 2012 vote to constitutionally ban gay marriage, a campaign that is expected to More…
The Minnesota for Marriage coalition, which is pushing a 2012 constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, is mobilizing against state campaign finance rules that require disclosure of donors. This isn’t the first time groups involved in the coalition like the National Organization More…
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