(Community Matters) At a usually insightful and respected source, Open Secret’s summer intern misses the boat, though I can see this being spoon fed to her by those calling for boycotts – sorta an intern’s initiation to not blindly follow even “prominent sources.”
Some of the error is obviously intentional since everyone knows donations are down in nonpresidential election years, the rest at best simply naive. She notes the call for a boycott of LGBT dollars to the DNC but fails to note we had a record breaking, nonpresidential, year (general & LGBT $). Excluding these monies from the denominator is silly – worse if just to make a story. Lots of other LGBT political organizations which should be included (including Republican). We may not be single-minded (applause & rejoicing here) but we’re every bit as engaged and exercising even more political might than ever before – hey, win some lose some, at least it’s no longer one step forward, three back
12/05 update: based on a lack of clarity and consistency in measurement of dollars raised by the LGBT Leadership Council, I’m revising my statement from our best year to one of our best years.
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