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There is some resistance in certain public places and some pastors are hesitant to publicly endorse the referendum. —Gary Randall
According to the Public Disclosure Commission, on 5/29/09 Gary Randall’s Faith & Freedom PAC paid Gary Randall’s Faith & Freedom Network $900 for “Website mgmt for internet promotion of Ref 71″ and $219 for “Website tech support”. On first glance this is no big deal, but look a little closer and you’ll see shades of shell gaming.
I’ve blogged about Gary’s Ref 71 website before. In summary, the Ref 71 website that Gary set up is redundant and completely superfluous because Larry Stickney had already set up an official campaign website. Gary’s Ref 71 website doesn’t link to the official campaign website, and its donation button takes you to the Faith & Freedom PAC donation page, not to the donation page of the official referendum PAC.
What we have here with this latest transfer of funds, it seems, is more of same: Gary fundraising for the sake of supporting himself and/or his organizations. He has a history of allocating about 75% of contributions to salaries and fundraising costs, leaving a pathetic 25% for actual program services.
No wonder “There is some resistance in certain public places and some pastors are hesitant to publicly endorse the referendum.” Who would want to be associated with a creep like him?
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Cross-posted at Washblog.
13 Comments
Confidence ScamIsn’t this an example of a bait and switch scam? Advertise one thing and take you to a different product? Doesn’t WA have consumer laws that cover this kind of theft?
Keep up the good work Lurleen.I do hope you are sending copies of all these blogs to local papers.
Remind me when the signature deadline is.Sorry I lost track.
Good luck Washington!
July 25thYou mean you don’t have every detail down for 2 states distant?! ;D
not only do they have redundant websites,but they are largely lifeless. the last update on gary’s was almost a week ago on june 12th. larry’s latest tweet says
however, the “Latest News” they report at his website: “Governor OKs domestic partner rights law”. that was waaaay back on may 18, lol!
Isn’t the referendum71 blog on blogger?Aren’t *.blogspot.com addresses all Blogger free blogs? Doesn’t that mean that Gary just paid himself $1119 for the 5 minutes of work required to set up a free blog?
Lurleen, once again, I thank you.You have put a lot of time and effort in exposing Referendum 71 and the people supporting it. Please do not burn out.
I saw a discussion on PBS a few weeks ago about the decrease of quality investigative journalism in newspapers and some other mainstream media, and with some state officials possibly in collusion with Randall and Stickney making objective state investigations less likely, the burden of making the facts known and public figures accountable for their actions falls on citizen activists like you.
You are doing one helluva good job!
NOTE: Regarding a possible fundraiser to buy you new bullshit filters, should we include an industrial-strength barf bucket as well?
Been hanging with Maggie Gallagher, has he?Just how many bites CAN one get from an apple, anyways?
A bigot’s gotta pay the rent….
Needs more donationsWould it be possible the $219 for “Website tech support” covered expenses to set up the website and he’s waiting for more PAC donations to afford updates?
The Ref 71 campaign is the gift that keeps on giving!I haven’t seen a campaign run so ineptly since Rudy Giuliani decided to run for President! This campaign has been served with heaping servings of FAIL since it began, and I can’t wait to see it go down in flames next month.
Not to be complacent, but I am loving the schadenfreude of it all!
I am sure that there is Faith Based Initiative funding for thisAfter all, it would help the President obey the Constitution by enforcing DOMA, right?
Perhaps if blogger wasn’t freeI doubt it took someone more than 1 hour to set up and customize the free website. Moreover, the recipient of these funds is listed only as Faith & Freedom Network, not an vendor or any sort of consultant, but Gary’s own personal slush fund.
Let’s see $6,600 collected $1,119 spent on this phony expense = 16% of donations going directly into Gary’s pocket.