Money to Burn for Yes On Proposition 8
Andrew Sullivan has been writing many posts about the Human Rights Campaign and their inneffectiveness in preventing the passage of Proposition 8 and altso their general lack of impact around marriage equality and civil rights — their raison’ d’etre.
Something that sort of blows my mind is that the No On 8 ads were so useless…. and the Yes On 8 people actually have money left to burn after winning:
After the election, the Committee has remaining surplus funds of over $1.6 million. Under California law, the Committee is authorized to expend these funds for legal defense “where the litigation arises directly out of… The enactment by the initiative process, of any… constitutional amendment.”
[From the Preliminary Opposition available on the California Supreme Court's web page in messy PDF]
Crap! So they raised the money, spent it well, and had more money left over. What’s more, because they have money left over and the litigation is about the amendment, they can use the cash.
