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Date: October 30, 2010 01:48PM
I see that Pugno took money from the National Organization for Marriage to fund some of his current advertisements. The NOM people still have close ties to mormons.
If you can find any more information about mormon involvement, including volunteer efforts, payment for printing those full-color flyers, mormon email trees being used to get the work out, etc., please do post it here and I'll see that it gets greater coverage.
Quotes below are excerpted from a news article:
"Republican candidate Andy Pugno – who is running for an Assembly seat in District 5 (eastern Sacramento County, Arden Arcade and Folsom) – appears to be so hungry for a win that he’s scrubbed from his official candidate biography any reference to his life’s work fighting against same sex marriage and abortion rights for women, even in the case of rape or incest. Instead he trips over himself trying to use as many GOP catch phrases as possible:
"'Small business owner Andy Pugno has a passion for his community, real world experience, and wants to see California thrive again. Since opening his own law practice, Andy has built a successful business in the greater Sacramento area as an effective taxpayer advocate — helping hundreds of local families to reduce their federal, state and local taxes.'"
"[However, as the Sacramento News and Review reported] “According to state campaign-finance records, the Law Offices of Andrew P. Pugno received $200,473.79 from ProtectMarriage.com, the major proponent of Prop. 8, for consulting, petition processing, office support, professional legal and accounting services and travel in 2008.”...
"Pugno is letting his old Prop 8 companion – the National Organization for Marriage – promote his antigay marriage values with a $100,000-plus ad buy in Sacramento....[video of ad at the link below]"
http://www.lgbtpov.com/2010/10/yes-on-8-attorney-andy-pugno-trying-to-mislead-voters-in-ca-assembly-race/