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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.Referendum 71 voters will be asked to approve or reject the domestic partnership law.
REFERENDUM 71
Ballot Title
Statement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].Concise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.
Should this bill be:
Approved ___
Rejected ___Ballot Measure Summary
Same-sex couples, or any couple that includes one person age sixty-two or older, may register as a domestic partnership with the state. Registered domestic partnerships are not marriages, and marriage is prohibited except between one man and one woman. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of registered domestic partners and their families to include all rights, responsibilities, and obligations granted by or imposed by state law on married couples and their families.
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Did he ever get around to filing with the PDC?I’m still curious to see his reports to the Public Disclosure Commission: I want to know who funded all this.
Oops, never mindYou gave the link in your post. Doh!
he’s got another deadlinecoming up august 10th. let’s see if he makes this one.
Lurleen,Have you checked out the SoS’s update for last nights numbers? Looking good thus far. I know not out of the woods yet, but still, it’s looking good.
6,140 petition signatures
872 rejected
14.2 percent daily error rate
23 were duplicate signatures
71 had no match
758 non-voters
20 no signature on state database (which could later be added back in after county verification)
UGH!Nevermind. I didn’t go down far enough on the main page. LOL
SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
lololz!i think we’re punching the same time clock lately, lol!
I think you are right about that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (as you usually are right
Gary’s the gift that just keeps giving.Since he transfered 40% of the PAC funds (which he swore were 100% dedicated to R-71) to the foundation, I found the below quote from his email to be especially amusing:
“With the giving directed toward the R-71 PAC, as it should have been, the resources needed for the Faith and Freedom Foundation have been depleted.”
Actually, the foundation’s funds have been increased by this effort. Or maybe he means they’ve been depleted because all the money transfered from the PAC plus some has been paid out to Gary for his “work” on the petition.
I also thought this quote by Gary from the end of a recent Seattle Times piece should be the centerpiece of an approve R-71 campaign:
“This isn’t marriage, technically.”
It’s rather rare to see a serial liar admit the truth so openly.
yes!i also thought “This isn’t marriage, technically” was a stunning admission. there are also quotes from his colleague, senator val stevens, from a few years ago that basically said “we’re so pissed because we’re not allowed to discriminate against the gays anymore!” that i think could be very useful.
Is there any method for checkingwhether the names and signatures are from people who are aware that they actually signed? Given some of the signature-gathering lies and dirty tricks, I imagine a spot-check might turn up some interesting results.