Gay Donors Get Creative In Super PAC America

Thursday, March 01, 2012 THE BIG STORY, BY MATT TAYLOR Gay Donors Get Creative In Super PAC America In this Citizens United era of unregulated campaign cash, gay activists and donors are finding innovative ways to reward Barack Obama, who despite his equivocation on marriage equality is often lauded as the greatest friend to the LGBT community of any president in American history. "This kind of Republican campaign has mobilized the community like I haven't seen since 1992," said David Mixner, a veteran progressive strategist Newsweek once called the most powerful gay man in America. "There's a lot at stake. I have no doubt people will be involved in some way in Super PACs. You can count on the major donors of this community dong whatever they have to do to assist in the re-election of this president." There's also the prospect of what one leading strategist called the "Holy Grail" -- electing Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin the first openly gay U.S. Senator. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: E.J. DIONNE Romney The Extremist Maybe Rick Santorum is helping Mitt Romney after all: Santorum's wacky statements about college and snobbery, along with his upset stomach over a 52-year-old John F. Kennedy speech, are distracting attention from Romney's extremist economic ideas. Romney's plan is simultaneously extreme and very, very boring. It draws on the one and only idea that today's conservatives offer for solving any and every problem that comes along: just throw yet more money at rich people. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FEATURED COLUMN: JIM HIGHTOWER The Keystone XL Flim-Flam So, let's tally the score in this Keystone pipeline deal: The American people's environment would be put at risk, foreign nations would get the fuel, pipeline and oil investors would get the tax-subsidized profits, and we'd all stay hooked on deadly polluting oil. Meanwhile, the financial speculators and supply manipulators who are artificially causing our gasoline prices to rise escape scrutiny, while self-serving politicians (tanked up on Big Oil's and Wall Street's campaign cash) divert attention to the bugaboo of Obama's pipeline decision. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> SOCIAL SECURITY AND YOU SSI Is Not Social Security Social Security and Supplemental Security Income are two very different programs. Their only similarities are their names and the fact that they're both managed by the Social Security Administration. Many people who are getting Social Security disability benefits think (and constantly tell me) that they're getting SSI. Here's an example of how that can lead to all kinds of confusion. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> WAR AND PEACE North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment as well as nuclear and long-range missile tests in a breakthrough in negotiations with the United States. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Pyongyang's suspension of nuclear activities a "modest first step" but also "a reminder that the world is transforming around us." READ MORE Send To A Friend >> FOR BRITISH EYES ONLY James Murdoch Resigns From News Corp. Post James Murdoch, son of 80-year-old media titan Rupert Murdoch, is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper arm, the company said Wednesday. His role at News International has come under scrutiny by law enforcement amid Britain's expanding phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch-owned titles. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> CARTOON OF THE DAY Send To A Friend >>

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