[News] [AK, USA] Protect Your Rights group raises $69,000 as vote nears
Stephanie Stevens
Alaska Beat
Protect Your Rights group raises $69,000 as vote nears
Alex DeMarban | Mar 28, 2012
A group fighting an effort to extend equal-rights protections to gay
and transgender people received a financial boost on the eve of the
election, including a huge injection from the Anchorage Baptist Temple
and more than 50 individual contributions -- most of them $100 or less
from Anchorage residents.
Protect Your Rights -- Vote No on 5 <http://protectanchorage.org/> , a
group run by Jim Minnery of Alaska Family Council
<http://www.alaskafamilycouncil.org/> , had reported raising less than
$5,000 until this latest report, filed Tuesday night. But since March
9, the group now reports raising $69,130, boosting total contributions
to $73,605, according to the Alaska Public Offices Commission
<http://doa.alaska.gov/apoc/> . The group, which lately began running
a series of controversial TV ads, says it has spent $60,672.
Protect Your Rights' fundraising efforts are still overshadowed by Yes
on 5 -- One Anchorage <http://www.oneanchorage.com/> , which has taken
in hundreds of donations, largely from Anchorage residents. The One
Anchorage initiative, which would amend Anchorage municipal code to
provide anti-discrimination protections to gay and transgender people,
is set for a vote Tuesday.
Protect Your Rights received $45,000 from a group created by the
Anchorage Baptist Temple called Protect Your Freedom Ballot Group. The
ballot group is still sitting on $35,000 from the temple. Protect Your
Rights' other big donation this reporting period, a $15,000 boost,
came from Josh Pepprd, with Davis Constructors and Engineers
<http://www.davisconstructors.com/> in Anchorage.
Yes on 5 -- One Anchorage <http://www.oneanchorage.com/> , reported
early Wednesday that they had received another $6,000, raising their
total to $334,797. The Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C.,
kicked in $5,000 of that. The group reported in a disclosure filed
Tuesday that it had raised $96,000 from more than 200 donations in the
last reporting period. Most were from Anchorage residents giving $300
or less. The largest check in the reporting period came from Colorado
entrepreneur and nationally known gay-rights activist Tim Gill
<file:///about/blank> , who contributed $25,000. The American Civil
Liberties Union gave $10,000.
One Anchorage, which has launched a new series of radio and television
ads, says it has spent $267,750.
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