Posted by NewsEditor at 9:03 PM (PT)
In: activism, initiative
Tuesday
December
30,
2008
:: Backers of Arizona's Proposition 102 -- the successful November ballot measure to constitutionally ban marriage equality -- collected over $7.7 million from donors, but most of them are identified only by name and address on state disclosure forms, despite a state law that seems to require a campaign to also list the donor's occupation. "Yes for Marriage" -- the sponsors of the measure -- show occupations for only about one out of five contributors, according to Capitol Media Services which analyzed data from public records. Arizona Together, the committee that collected nearly $750,000 for the campaign against Proposition 102, lists occupations for virtually all of its contributors. Elections director Joe Kanefield said he asked the "Yes" campaign to supply the missing information, but said he was satisfied that the campaign had made its "best efforts" to get the missing data even though they didn't add the the missing information to any of the listed names.