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Gary Randall: Fundraising Failure

By Lurleen
Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 09:16:42 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Initiatives and Referenda

Is this what they call a Hail Mary pass? Just over 5 weeks before the deadline to submit signatures for the smarmy Referendum 71 to repeal the incremental domestic partnership law, and Gary Randall begs for twice the bucks than he's been able to gather to date. So far, his Faith & Freedom PAC has reported raising just over $5,000. Yet now he's asking for $10,000 more. If they wouldn't give it to you when there was time to use it, Gary, why would they give it to you now? Perhaps people have finally cottoned on to Gary's fundraising shell game.

Gary and his welfare patron in the state house, Senator Dan Swecker, say that they want this money to print and mail petitions to the 50,000 people Swecker just knows will sign and return before the deadline. Yuh. Sounds like desperate measures to me. But judge for yourself:

We need a minimum of $10,000 to begin this project. Obviously it is time-sensitive. Some of you may be in a position to help with a substantial donation toward this effort or may know someone who could underwrite or substantially underwrite the effort. Please contact Senator Dan Swecker at [removed]@faithandfreedom.us.

Begin the project. If Gary and his Washington operative (Gary is a carpetbagging Oregonian) Larry Stickney were competently organized and had the backing of any meaningful number of people, there would be no weak talk of wanting to start something now. Rather, they'd have been crowing to the papers weeks ago that they'd already done it. My favorite is the "Some of you" part of the quote. Some of you may know of someone who might know someone else dumb enough to give me more money to waste, pleeease! How pathetic.

Let's put Gary's $5K in perspective. Back in 2006, Tim Eyman, Gary Randall and Joe Fuiten combined (purportedly) formidable forces to promote I-65, the initiative to repeal the LGBT non-discrimination law. They raised a respectable $91,459 for that campaign, yet that initiative FAILED.

Join Washington Families Standing Together in their fight against Referendum 71 by clicking on the graphics below.

Cross-posted at Pam's House Blend.

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