Can you believe it? State Senator Lou Correa, who is supposed to be a Democrat, has taken thousands of dollars from the truly freaky OC GOP money machine that is Howard Ahmanson, according to a post by Gustavo Arellano in the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog.
Arellano revealed that:
Ahmanson has so far been the top individual donor to the Protect Marriage Act, the November ballot initiative that wants to create a California constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman. Through his private philanthropic enterprise, Fieldstead and Co., Ahmanson has donated an amazing $400,000 to the initiative–even more than Focus on the Family and topped only by the National Organization for Marriage, a nationwide group whose campaign headquarters to defeat those marryin’ gays is in Santa Ana.
And just look at the list of Reeps that Ahmanson has forked over chunks of his fortune to:
John Moorlach, Pat Bates, Janet Nguyen and Diane Harkey; Assemblymember Chuck Devore and Mimi Walters; Dana Point Mayor Diane Harkey, and DA Tony Rackauckas, while 2006 saw him donate to the campaigns of Irvine councilmember Christina Shea, Costa Mesa Minutemen councilmembers Allan Mansoor and Wendy Leece, South Orange County Community College District trustee (and former OC GOP chair) Tom Fuentes, and more to Walters and Devore.
Yes, Supervisor Janet Nguyen took Ahmanson’s money too. Sigh. Well, I don’t think she is an anti-gay nutcase like most of the others listed above. At least I hope not.
But Correa has NO excuse! He is a Democrat. Why hasn’t his party censured him for taking Ahmanson’s money? Once again DPOC Chairman Frank Barbaro has no huevos. No wonder the DPOC is such a joke.
Correa needs to get off his butt and denounce the anti-gay whack jobs that Ahmanson is allied with. C’mon Lou. If you aren’t going to stand up for your GLBT constituents then please just go ahead and file as a Republican already.
Editor’s Note: I forgot to mention that Santa Ana Clowncilman David Benavides also took some of Ahmanson’s money. Shame on you David! Give it back and say sorry!
Matt –
Janet is not homophobic (neither are you for that matter), but your mutual party is.
Seriously, look at my politics for instance. On many issues I take a very conservative or moderate tack. I also have a tendency to hunt liberals like game when their big-hack attacks begin to multiple in too large of numbers for the local blogosphere to sustain. It’s a humanitarian effort. We don’t want to let them starve do we? 😛
Do you really think I’d be a Democrat if I didn’t feel shunned by your party’s indebtedness to ‘faith mongers’ (i.e. hatemongers)? Your candidates campaign on so-called ‘family values,’ one being that every family should consist of only one mom and one dad – a closed minded view to say the least. Hillary got it right when she said, ‘it takes a village…’
I also have my doubts about any political party that allows itself to be so easily influenced by the attempts of Evangelicals to build a theocracy as if it were Pinocchio to Pat Robertson’s Gepetto. It’s hypocritical of your so-called ‘small government party’ to claim we are a ‘Christian nation’ and then define morality based on a very narrow and politically motivated interpretation of Biblical scripture.
SMS
Matt/Jubal,
Sarah answered the question about as well as anyone might be expected to.
And Sarah put it best…the whole issue of gay marriage will be moot in a few months when we see that the world did not come to an end after so many gay couples tied the knot.
BTW – MANY gay voters WERE Republicans once. Your party chased them off. This is one of the reasons the Dems have essentially taken over California. Wait until the Mexican American teens start voting. You may end up having to drop the Red County and go back to being OC Blog…