This reminds us of what we posted on a couple short weeks ago.

From the National Review:

One of the first donors at the table was Tim Gill, the openly gay founder of software giant Quark, Inc. His interest in politics began in 1992, when 53.4 percent of Colorado’s voters approved Amendment 2, a ballot measure excluding gays and lesbians from being protected by state anti-discrimination laws. “Nothing can compare to the psychological trauma of realizing that more than half the people in your state believe that you don’t deserve equal rights,” he said in a 2000 interview with the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Gill was upset — and he had the financial means to do something about it (Forbes recently estimated his net worth at more than $425 million). In the mid-1990s, he endowed two foundations to increase awareness of gay-rights issues. Organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, they were (and are) prohibited by law from participating in partisan political activities.

Although he was heavily involved in philanthropic work, Gill’s political contributions were relatively modest. Then something happened in the Colorado state house that would add a partisan component to Gill’s activism — as well as a zero to his level of financial commitment. It also set into motion a chain of events that would change the course of Colorado political history.

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