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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 02:20 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:46
We’ve been tracking Tim Gill and Co’s political “out giving” for some time now. You can read up on some of our previous coverage ->“Out giving” comes to VA, Millionaire Democrat Donors, and last but not least our original post on the matter from April 2007. From CitizenLink:
You don’t want to get on Tim Gill’s bad side. Marilyn Musgrave could tell a few war stories.
Musgrave, a three-term congresswoman from Colorado, was a lead sponsor of the original Federal Marriage Amendment. Gill, a Denver-based software tycoon (founder of Quark), is perhaps the most powerful force for homosexual activism in American politics. So Musgrave is most definitely on Gill’s bad side — and even in the often vicious world of politics, his efforts to get her booted from office have been way over the top.
When Musgrave ran for re-election in 2004, Gill funded television attack ads showing a woman portraying Musgrave — dressed in a pink suit — picking money from the pockets of soldiers on a battlefield. Another showed the same actress stealing a watch off of a corpse.
And in 2006, Gill and his allies spent nearly $1.4 million setting up a bogus pro-life group, Coloradans for Life, to attack Musgrave (who has a 100 percent pro-life voting record). The goal: Suppress the turnout of pro-life voters for Musgrave. It nearly worked; Musgrave survived, winning by less than 3 points. But she did survive. Most of Gill’s targets can’t say the same.
Dozens of conservative politicians have found themselves in Gill’s crosshairs — and out of office as a result. Between his efforts and those he’s recruited, he’s helped produce Democratic majorities in state legislatures in places like Oregon, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire. Political veterans are marveling at his impact.
“I have never seen in Colorado politics in the 30-some odd years where I’ve been active … any individual involved to the degree that Tim Gill is,” Republican political consultant Katy Atkinson told the Rocky Mountain News. “Should he choose to, he can shape any part of Colorado public policy he wants to.”
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