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Donations Rolling in For Prop. 8 – $2.25 Million So Far!
I’ve been keeping my eye on the news for the latest information on Prop. 8 here in California.
I was really happy when Brad Pitt made his $100K donation, but was discouraged that his donation didn’t ignite others to donate to the campaign so generously. I wasn’t alone in my discouragement, and was happy to see a story from Topix GLBT News about an Ohio entrepreneur who vowed to match $500K worth of No on 8 contributions. The story reported “Gay Ohio entrepreneur and political activist Jonathan Lewis issued a challenge of sorts to Los Angeles’s entertainment industry Tuesday — raise $500,000 for No on Prop. 8, and he and his family will match the contributions dollar for dollar. Sources close to the Lewis family say Jonathan became particularly interested in California’s Proposition 8 after Brad Pitt’s $100,000 contribution. Reports that followed suggested a number of key entertainment figures had yet to give.”
This challenge incited some to action, prompting Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight to donate $50K (some reports say $100K).
Other celebrities who have given to the cause include Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, each donating $100,000; Pete Wentz and his band Fall Out Boy donated $50,000; and TV talk-show host-comedian Chelsea Handler gave $5,000. Will & Grace star Eric McCormack and Desperate Housewives’ Dana Delany each wrote checks for $5,000. Melissa Etheridge and Mary J. Blige plan to headline a fund-raiser to benefit No on 8 on October 21.
Today’s news is real exciting, and it seems as though those with deeper pockets than the rest of us are starting to dig deep for the cause.
Early this morning, Hollywood producer Steve Bing reportedly gave the “heftiest” donation totaling $500, 000. An hour later the Human Rights Campaign announced it was contributing $750,000, bringing the HRC’s total contribution to Equality for All to $3 million. The California Teachers Association donated a whopping $1 Million as well, bringing along the support of teachers across the state to the side of equality. According to PinkNews UK, CTA’s spokeswoman Sandra Jackson said that the union’s internal vote to oppose Proposition 8 was a large majority, and that “teachers teach the importance of equal rights for all.”
In the last 24 hours No on 8 has managed to raise more than $2.25 million, and the campaign says that they expect more to come in as opponents of Prop 8 work tirelessly to match the donations raised by the backers of Prop 8.
If you haven’t donated, there is no more time to lose! Give what you can by visiting NoOnProp8.com.
Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.
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October 17, 2008 at 4:40 am
I just hope they use some of the funds to pump more No on 8 Yard signs into the community… the Yes side has bought so many that each house I’ve seen usually has more than one. The local No on 8 campaign office here is asking for a $50 for one sign. I hope they can start giving these signs for free now so that we can put up four signs if we wanted to like the Yes side is doing.
Student Gregg
October 17, 2008 at 3:14 am
Religious persecution
Editor – Why should the entire population of the state of California be forced to live under a religious belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? We are told over and over again that Proposition 8 is a secular matter, yet the Mormons, the Catholics and the conservative Protestants wrote this measure, and are funding it.
This Prop. 8 is nothing less than religious persecution against those who have different beliefs. And if straight unmarried people think they are safe from these “conservatives”- think again. In Arkansas, there is a push by these religious groups to ban unmarried people from fostering children.
Once gays and lesbians have been persecuted with a change to the state Constitution, there is no telling who these people will set their sights on next. Vote No on Prop. 8 – it is religious persecution, pure and simple.
abdz
October 17, 2008 at 3:12 am
Tizzle,
Sorry, I can see how I didnt phrase my first posting correctly. I meant I donated “to” our side (the no on prop 8 side). thanks for pointing that out. I dont want people to think I donated to the ban.
rdg1234
October 17, 2008 at 3:10 am
OK, ya know what, rather than “pussyfooting” around the issue, I think it’s time that it become more and more common for people to *SAY* in point of fact, straight out, and bluntly, that we all know the pseudo-religious *DON’T CARE* about the poor and those in trouble.
I’ll go one step further. They pretend to care, thus breaking one or more commandments.
We all know this.
The *facts* show us this.
I sometimes think that *real* religion has become an antithesis of what is *called* religion and is actually, in biblical terms, a form of satanism that has run rampant on this planet. Because the pseudo-religious are lying before you and before god at any point that they ever dare to claim they care about the poor, the destitute, those in trouble, etc. They’ve just gotten used to lying, and they’ve gotten very good at lying.
All of them.
Tizzle
October 17, 2008 at 3:07 am
abdz,
did you donate to the measure or against it? Forgive me, I was left a little confused.
abdz
October 17, 2008 at 3:04 am
I donated more than I usually do too. I started out donating $50 last month to the California measure(in addition to $50 to the Arizona ballot measure), then $100 last week…and then $100 last night.
What gets me is that the mormon church can donated money that they get tax free when the money I donated is taxed.
Ken
October 16, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I really pushed and donated a lot more than I felt I could, but realized I needed to. I’m proud that this is gaining the momentum it deserves.
If any of us is not equal under the law, none of us are.
SaveUsFromGOP
October 16, 2008 at 2:10 pm
What really bites my butt about this is that the Mormon church and other hatemongers are spending MILLIONS on this instead of such things as, say, helping the poor and destitute?!?
And, in turn, the people fighting against this and all their contributors have to ante up millions to fight the discrimination and hatred.
Who will benefit? The media… few others. And I don’t have anything against the media, it’s just that this is SUCH A WASTE…and in the name of god, no less…
George Funk
October 16, 2008 at 2:07 pm
hank you, Deningrad! My husband and I have donated, too. We’re going to work at a phone bank this weekend. I wear a “No on 8″ t-shirt at the gym and I hand out buttons to my friends. I put up a “No on 8″ sign in my yard. The next day, my mormon neighbor recruited four neighbors around me to put “Yes on 8″ signs in their yards.(Not very neighborly, but I should add that I know some mormons that tell me they plan to vote no on 8.) It’s going to be close. Right now, it looks like we’re a little behind. Please, help if you can.
Deningrad
October 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’m so happy to read this. My boyfriend and I donates $40 dollars against Prop 8, and we’re so glad that the effect can be doubled. Please people donate to the No on 8 campaign. We really need to make people to know the truth about this evil proposition and the special interests of out of state groups.
Brittany Marie
October 16, 2008 at 12:42 pm
It makes me happy to read that these big names are pitching in! I am warmed by the teamwork and it makes me feel a bit better about the ignorance I keep encountering.