Maine Marriage Campaign Probe Gets OK
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Associated Press: Maine's campaign oversight board overruled a staff recommendation Thursday and authorized an investigation into fundraising by groups supporting the campaign to repeal the state's gay marriage law in a Nov. 3 referendum. The Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices voted 3-2 after some members said there was sufficient evidence to warrant a closer look at finance reporting by the National Organization for Marriage, a major contributor to Stand for Marriage Maine. The latter group is leading the people's veto campaign to repeal Maine's legislatively enacted law recognizing same-sex marriages.
Maine's law, which was signed in May by Gov. John Baldacci, and the challenge forced by a petition drive have drawn national attention. In the case before the ethics commission Thursday, Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger complained that the Princeton, N.J.-based National Organization for Marriage is circumventing Maine law by not reporting the names of donors whose money is spent by the Maine campaign. Karger's whose group was formed to identify major donors in last year's Proposition 8 campaign in California, in which voters overturned that state's same-sex marriage law. Karger said NOM's finances "have always been clouded in mystery."
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