The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? -- Jesus
All this news about militant heterosexualists fraudulently "signing" R-71 petition declarations with Larry Stickney's signature stamp got me thinking: where had I seen pen-wielding people mulling over the backs of petitions? Aah yes, on Gary Randall's Faith and Freedom website. A few days after the July 25th delivery of R-71 petitions to the Secretary of State (SOS), Oregon Gary posted a slide show commemorating the event. After reading Judge Spector's order this morning, I'm seeing those pictures, and others, with new eyes.
To the right is a screen shot featuring Pentecostal ministers Roy & Valerie Hartwell from Rivers of Glory Church, which meets in a hotel room. Why is Roy Hartwell hovering his pen directly over the declaration box? And why did he even have a pen? There was nothing to write on on that table except petitions. Let's take a closer look at Roy and others, below the fold.
A deep concern that we have is that Judge Julie Spector is openly homosexual and activist. She is found on a list of openly homosexual elected officials. In her campaign to be elected to her seat in 2000, she was quoted in the September 13, 2000, edition of the Seattle Weekly, calling herself a "dyke".
It is impossible to believe an openly homosexual activist judge could rule fairly in this case. We are considering our next step.
For Gary, Judge Spector's sexual orientation by definition tosses her into the "activist" category. Because, you know, only militant heterosexist theocrats can be considered impartial... This tells us something about Gary, and how sexuality apparently (over)rules his rational brain, and so he assumes it does the same for everyone else.
Sad that Gary won't even wait to hear the ruling and examine Judge Spector's legal reasoning before finding her guilty of ulterior motives. It tells me that he doesn't really care about justice, only about winning. And he'll smear anyone to win, apparently. Because you see for Gary, revealing that someone calls themselves a dyke is a smear. Personally, I find it rakishly charming. :)
Now might be a good time to review Oregon Gary's history of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2008 Washington judicial primary elections. He wrote such learned evaluations about the candidates as this:
Holly Hill has the support of women, race and NARAL.
Les Ponomarchuk is the current court commissioner. We do not know a lot about him or his judicial philosophy but it appears he is taking a more conservative approach in seeking endorsements.
Rob Lawrence-Berry appears to be well qualified and has a mainstream church background. However, David Elofson appears to be a little more conservative.
One of Gary's picks, the heterosexually-married Michael Hecht, did actually win and is now a Pierce County Superior Court judge. Or was. He's on probation pending the outcome of his September trial. He's been accused of using racist slurs, stealing campaign signs of his opponents, hiring male prostitutes (paying in both cash and legal services) and threatening at least one of them with violence. Great pick, Gary, thanks! We should all trust Oregon Gary's wisdom about Washington judges.
Joe Mirabella over at the Examiner has a story up about how the Dynamic Duo of referenDUMB have violated the very TRO that Larry demanded to hide the identity of his anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71 petition signers. No stranger to restraining orders, you'd think Larry would know better.
Larry Stickney and Gary Randall, both extreme right wing activists working to repeal the domestic partnership law passed this year, have gone against their own request to seal the names of petition signers from the public. As a result of their litigation a Federal Court Order temporarily prevented the Secretary of State from releasing the referendum 71 petition publicly until a hearing scheduled for September 3. In court papers filed by lawyers representing Protect Marriage Washington, their lawyer argued that alleged threats, "have caused Larry Stickney a great deal of worry for his safety and the safety of his family."
"An Open Letter to Friends of Referendum 71" by Larry Stickney and Gary Randall was posted on three websites this morning, including the Protect Marriage Washington website managed by Larry Stickney. In the letter they disclosed the name* of Larry Stickney's daughter and confirmed that she signed the petition. It begs the question why Stickney and Randall would release her name if they actually believed harm or retribution would result from a public record of the petition signatures? Would a good father willingly put his daughter in danger if he believed the threat was real?
*[Lurleen: correction, they didn't disclose her by name, but identified her as the daughter of Larry and wife Polly.]
I wonder what (or who) Larry Stickney and "Pastor" Gary Randall wouldn't sacrifice to hurt domestic partners and their children? So far, Larry and Gary have thrown Larry's daughter to the wolves on three websites: Larry's Protect Marriage Washington, Gary's Faith and Freedom Network and the bloody-sounding Red County.
Besides making a mockery of their own TRO, the actions of Larry and Gary pull the rug out from under the melodramatic tripe that Stephen Pidgeon wrote in a letter impugning the integrity of Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed
I remind you that R-71 campaigners have faced death threats as a result of their desire to pursue the constitutionally provided-for referendum process in this state.
I guess trying to undermine the security of Washington families isn't enough for some people. Referendum 71 attorney and anti-Obama birther Stephen Pidgeon has just filed a federal grand jury petition in federal court on behalf of Patriot's Heart Media Network and several individuals. He claims that Obama is a British citizen. He names the defendants
BARRY SOETORO, a/k/a BARACK OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a/k/a BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II, a/k/a BARRY OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, in her authority within the Democrat National Committee, HOWARD DEAN, in his authority within the Democrat National Committee, and JOHN DOES and JANE DOES, 1-20, members of media and press organizations
Some people stretch their fantasies a little too far into the real world. Btw, there is no such thing as "Democrat National Committee". But someone bent on denying the citizenship of a biracial man who became president certainly can't be bothered with factual details.
This isn't the first birther lawsuit Pidgeon has filed. Back in 2008, he sued Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed in Broe v. Reed for counting ballots cast for Obama, which Pidgeon claimed were invalid because Pidgeon said he thought that Obama isn't a natural born citizen. The Washington State Supreme Court quickly dismissed that tripe case. Strangely, although Pidgeon says he fervently believes we are being ruled by a usurper, he chose not to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court.
Despite (or perhaps because of?) the dismissal, Pidgeon seems to still pursue an animus towards Secretary of State Reed, now charging that Reed is letting "personal politics of those employed in your office...trump the integrity of [the R-71 signature certification] process". He does this in league with R-71 pushers Larry Stickney and Gary Randall. Btw, Gary Randall's jumped into the Obama's gonna kill your granny! clown car. What a bunch of wackos.
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's My Daily Denial (his blog posts). Gary Randall is a key architect of Referendum 71, which asks voters to reject or approve Washington's domestic partnership law.
Today's issue featured an exceptional display of multi-layered denial on Gary's Part. He is in denial about what domestic partnerships are (by definition, "not marriage"). He is in denial about how a hefty majority of the legislature and the governor have reasoned that fairness is good for Washingtonians, and the vast majority of Washingtonians agree. And he is in denial that it was only via Protect Marriage Washington's lies and deceit and the contra-legal policies of the Secretary of State that his illegitimate referendum qualified for the ballot, if only just barely at that.
As I was reading it dawned on me that Gary has created this elaborate mental and fundraising mechanism not to fend off some gargantuan mortal enemy, but to persecute a mere 5,906 pairs of domestic partners, or 11,812 people. In a state of about 6,668,200 people, that's only 0.18% of the population.
Gary Randall is fixated on actively persecuting 0.18% of the population, the tiniest of minorities. Estimates are that this campaign will cost both sides in the millions of dollars. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being able to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing a partner with a pension they've already paid for should one die. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being notified if their partner is the victim of a crime. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing death benefits to a partner if they are a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty.
How sad that Gary Randall is spending his retirement beating up the puny kid next door. And spending other people's money to do it.
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Larry Stickney and Gary Randall are apparently concerned about the rejection rate of signatures on their anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71. At about 11%, R-71's cumulative to-date signature rejection rate is the lowest in recent memory, and is still well below the drop-dead rate of 12.4% that would keep the referendum off the ballot. Further, if the 53% of signatures already checked are representative of those remaining to be checked, it is statistically nearly impossible for the referendum not to qualify for the November ballot.
So I have have to ask myself, what do Larry and Gary know about the remaining unchecked signatures that worries them so? Whatever it is, it has moved them to take shocking action. After impugning the integrity of the Secretary of State and his employees with "Please pray that Secretary Sam Reed and the public servants he employs, will have the integrity to carry out their duties on the R-71 count in a fair and honest way, as they are duty bound to serve all the citizens of the state." they put out this "Call to Action"
PLEASE SEND THIS URGENT MESSAGE FAR AND WIDE! Tell everyone you know (especially those who signed R71) to let Sam Reed know that we want all of the signatures carefully checked. He owes it to the people of Washington State.
Both phone calls and e-mails to Sam Reed are needed NOW!: (ph) [redacted] or e-mail [redacted]
Larry Stickney, Campaign Manager
Protect Marriage Washington
If Larry and Gary feel they have a legitimate complaint about the signature checking process, the appropriate avenue for protest is the courts. They surely know this, as they've already brought two lawsuits during the referendum campaign. The first was when Larry challenged in court the ballot language on his own referendum. The second was when Larry wanted special rights to side-step Washington's open government laws. No, the anti-family forces are not shy about going to the courts, so why resort now to trying to impugn the reputation of the Secretary of State's office and influence their official actions via the mob?
UPDATE: Marching orders received! Check out the spate of n'er before seen requests for slow action on the Secretary of State's blog, below the fold.
UPDATE 2: The Secretary of State's Elections Division responds. See text below the fold.
Gary Randall posted a fundraising plea August 5th on his redundant Referendum 71 vanity blog. In it he claims
I have included the latest communication from the Secretary [of State]'s office.
Except that wasn't the latest communication. It was the Sec'y of State's blog post from August 3rd, which is the last time that the Referendum 71 validation rate looked marginally decent. If Gary really had posted the latest communication from the Sec'y of State's office, he would have had to reprint this embarrassing comment from the Sec'y of State's August 4th blog post:
Election officials have processed another 5,815 Referendum 71 signatures, rejecting 14.4 percent...The error rate was the highest of any seen during the first three days of scrutiny.
Since 12.43% is the invalidation rate above which the referendum will fail to qualify, I guess he hoped to hoodwink a few donors into giving a few last dollars before word got out of the ever-increasing uncertainty over the referendum's fate.
Oh, and regarding that redundant vanity blog - Gary is continuing his habit of 'paying himself' with Faith & Freedom PAC money for running it. According to the Public Disclosure Commission, on July 29th he faithfully made the third payment of $1,179 from the PAC to the organization that he pays himself a salary from. So far he's transferred $3,477 this way, representing 40% of all PAC expenditures so far ($3,477/$8,648). As his would-be donors watch the signature invalidation rate increase towards possible referendum failure, I wonder if they'll think Gary utilized their donations wisely. $3,477 would have bought a lot of signatures from a petition mercenary.
UPDATE: Washington Families Standing Together statement on the filing (emphasis mine. no link - via email)
Washington Families Standing Together's Statement on the Filing of Litigation by Protect Marriage Washington Against the Secretary of State
Washington Families Standing Together is not a party to the litigation. We understand there are competing points of view on the obligation of the Secretary of State to release names of petition signers. Some are concerned that such disclosure might somehow restrict the right of voters to participate in the initiative/referenda process, some support full disclosure and transparency of any government public records and urge that government be as broad as possible in disclosure of all records. Still others are troubled that everyone who registers as a domestic partner is required to have their name listed publicly on line with the Secretary of State, even as those signing petitions to repeal domestic partnerships don't think their names should be listed.
We want to make sure that this litigation doesn't distract voters from learning about the lives of gay and lesbian and senior families and the important protections that the domestic partnership law provides these families. The domestic partnership law protects thousands of domestic partners across the state, many with children, serving our communities in such roles as firefighters, police officers, teachers or nursing home workers. Referendum 71 would roll back the law, eliminate those protections, and hurt these families. Our coalition of more than 120 organizations and 90 clergy, religious leaders and faith-based organizations is reaching out to voters to make sure they know they have to vote APPROVE in order to keep the law from being repealed.
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Joshua A. Friedes
Campaign Manager
Washington Families Standing Together
W 206-324-2570
C 206-679-8546
F 206-324-1708
www.WAFST.org
Looks like Friedes will get his wish for the distraction to go away, at least for the next month; a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for September 3rd, according to Seattle Times. It'll go away, that is, so long as the press that Stickney constantly vilifies keeps perspective on who is the injured party if the DP law doesn't get approved in November. Hint: Stickney is trying to divert the conversation from domestic partnerships (which are widely supported), to his overused fainting couch.This just takes the cake. Larry Stickney apparently thinks that he has some right to be free of criticism from people he publicly vilifies and is trying to keep as 2nd class citizens.
Larry is the campaign manager for the anti-domestic partnership organization behind Referendum 71. He is also apparently Exhibit A in the lawsuit recently filed to prevent the release of the public documents formerly known as Referendum 71 petitions.
Ignoring the real story - that his campaign is causing material and emotional hardship to domestic partners, and the likelihood that the anti-gay rhetoric he and his colleagues use inflames anti-gay hatred and violence - Larry is trying to misdirect sympathies and subvert open government by complaining that he's received some angry emails and phone calls because of his referendum.
I personally would never bother to waste a call on a proven liar and false Christian like Larry, and I don't know if there is any real evidence to back up his claims. But presuming the evidence exists, can he really be surprised that he is a focus of criticism when he has made himself a public symbol of anti-gay hate in Washington state?
Let us remember who is the aggressor and who is the victim in the referendum battle. The aggressors are people like Larry, who seek to crush the souls and civil liberties of their victims, gay families. Has a heterosexual ever been lynched or denied pension or survivor benefits for the simple fact of being heterosexual? I've heard of not a one. It is heinous for Larry to play the victim card when he is part of the industry that exists to see gays dead, debilitated and without civil rights.
Links to the complaint and some supporting documents are available at the Everett Herald's Petri Dish blog.
ADDENDUM: I should just remind people that there is a real potential for political and/or financial payoff if Gary Randall and Larry Stickney can keep the names and addresses of the petition signers to themselves. Apparently referendum backers are free to use that information however they wish, such as selling the lists to political campaigns or share with organizations to fundraise off of. But if it's out there for everyone to see, Gary & Larry'll never be able to sell or horse trade on it.
Thank you for praying for Washington state! Enough signatures have been gathered to try and repeal SB5688 (Everything but Marriage).
God proved He doesn't need certain shepherds from certain churches to get His will done!
mmmROW! What a piece of work! Ken's definition of the Christian way is apparently to take a public swipe at your brother Christian when he disagrees with you about the wisdom of certain political involvements. (But he doesn't really disagree with you Ken, because you yourself showed doubt about the referendum early on.)
The root of this litter box dust-up is the very public refusal by Pastor Joe Fuiten and other conservative Christians to involve themselves with the referendum. Ken is so blinded by ambition and competition that he can't see clear to agree to disagree with people who should be colleagues, and who he really didn't disagree with early on anyway. Sad.
And are we surprised that Ken doesn't seem to notice that he was among the shepherds God did without?
Round 1 of The Radical-Right Catfight happened last week when Pastor Gary Randall put on his best passive-aggressive and said in response to Fuiten's comments on the sad state of the radical-right
I don't think people understand why he's trying to undermine the whole effort. Some people have said it's because he's not leading the charge. I wouldn't say that, but that has been said.
UPDATE: Check out the lies being spewed by signature gatherers in Seattle today, after the jump.
UPDATE 2: Chris Mason has posted the entire 9 minute video (thx Chris!). I've updated the post below. It is clear that the referendum mercenary was telling people that this is a yes/no vote on legalizing gay marriage. That is a baldfaced lie. R-71 is only about repealing an incremental domestic partnership law.H/T Joshalot
Wow. Just wow. This is what false Christianity looks like. Gary Randall and Larry Stickney, sponsors of the anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71, have a lot to answer for. This video was recorded by Chris Mason from Driving Equality a few days ago at the Port Angeles, WA Wal-Mart. While watching, keep in mind that Referendum 71 has NOTHING to do with marriage licenses.
[The paid signature gatherer] approached a woman and asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. When she said yes, he handed her the clipboard to sign the referendum. She though she was signing in favor of equal marriage. He tricked her, right in front of me, on camera. I called him out on it.
He said to her:
Did you have a chance to sign our petition yet? We're giving you an opportunity to decide whether or not you're in favor of giving homosexual couples legal marriage licenses. Not just the same rights as married people, but a marriage license too. Do you have an opinion on that, yes no or don't care?
The woman said yes, that she will sign, and he handed her the clipboard. It was obvious to me that she was signing what she thought was a petition in favor or giving same-sex couples marriage licenses. So I asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. She said that she did.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" emblazoned across the top with the following lies printed directly beneath
• The legislature just passed a law that effectively makes same sex marriages legal. By signing R-71 we can reverse that decision and protect marriage as between one man and one woman."
• If same-sex marriage becomes law, public schools K-12 will be forced to teach that same-sex marriage and homosexuality are normal... even over the objections of parents. Sign R-71 to protect children.
UPDATE: Be on the lookout for signature gatherers Friday & Saturday in the greater Seattle area. This just in from Family Policy Institute of Washington:
If you are interested in gathering signatures this afternoon, tonight or tomorrow morning in the Seattle area, please e-mail...
My reading of the 1st Amendment is that it is my right to tell interested petition signers why I think they shouldn't sign.
UPDATE 2: Gary Randall just sent this email
We are receiving a number of emails asking where individuals can sign a petition... You may do so at the Capitol steps tomorrow at 2 PM
I can't help myself: HAHAHAHA!Team Homophobia has a 2 PM appointment Saturday, July 25th with the Washington Secretary of State to turn in their anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71 signatures. But guess what? They don't have enough. Gary Randall states:
Friday, July 24, 2009
R-71: Too Close to Call We feel that by tomorrow morning we will have the 120,577 signatures required, however we also know that some will be invalidated for various reasons. We do not have an adequate cushion of signatures.
We will be turning in the signatures tomorrow at 2 PM.
Gary is so desperate that he's throwing this Hail Mary pass:
We are then asking you or someone you know, to drive the additional signatures to Olympia tomorrow...
I know the situation must truly be dire, because Gary forgot to ask for donations!
After flouting Washington state law for 6 days, Oregonian and tax evader Gary Randall finally filed his campaign expense report for June yesterday. From it we learn the same lesson we learned from the June report filed by his Referendum 71 comrade Larry Stickney: Gary and Larry's priorities are apparently to compensate themselves first and foremost.
To date, 49.8% of all R-71 expenditures made by Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC has gone back into Gary Randall's coffers (Faith & Freedom Network). Likewise, 44% of all R-71 expenditures made by Stickney's Protect Marriage Washington were to pay Stickney a rich salary.
Priorities, priorities...
Meanwhile, while these guys kick back and crack a cold one, I hear their worker bees have exhausted the church hives and, still coming up short, have had to come out into the light of day to seek signature gold. So now WalMart is apparently buzzing with bigotry. Are fair-minded Washingtonians letting their own calm and reasoned voices be heard at WalMart? "Excuse me Mr. Voter-Looking-Over-the-Petition, but if you sign that you'll be hurting my family directly. Please don't." The 1st Amendment is a beautiful thing, especially when employed calmly and conversationally.
Of the 31,103 verses in the Bible, what are the odds that Larry Stickney would happen to employ in his political campaign the very one that Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) is using to browbeat Christians into doing his own political bidding? Larry Stickney is the campaign manager of the misnamed Protect Marriage Washington, an organization promoting the anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71. Here's Larry in a July 14, 2009 "press release"
My friends, we are in a grave moral crises as a state and nation. A return to the faith and integrity of our forefathers is the only hope we have. We must recover our vision and put 2 Chronicles 7:14 into practice: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."
R-71 provides us with an opportunity to draw a line in the sand with those who mock our values and institutions and seek to tear them down. We have the chance to "just say no" to our societal descent into depravity.
Here's Tony Perkins describing the scriptural inspiration for his latest political ploy to manipulate Christians for his political ends
The Call 2 Fall Declaration comes straight from the pages of Scripture:
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14).
The journey back to God, to His forgiveness and favor, begins on our knees in humility and repentant prayer.
Stickney is clearly letting Tony Perkins do the thinking for him. And perhaps his own pastor too. It can't be coincidence that Larry invoked this Bible verse shortly after his Referendum 71 comrade (and personal pastor?) Pastor Rick Long of Atonement Free Lutheran Church in Arlington, WA built his July 5th sermon around an extensive list of FRC's talking points and linked them to Referendum 71. The sermon transcript is below the fold. Recitation of FRC talking points begins at about minute 12.
It is clear that Pastor Long and Larry Stickney are using Perkins's model of submission to spark and channel political activism. Look how Perkins doesn't stop after merely catalyzing submission, but makes sure that the newly submissive are readied for active duty:
Consequently, we are sensing the need to return to simple but powerful truths like:
* God is sovereign. He is holy and He is love.
* We are sinners. We are saved from His severity of His wrath toward sin only by the fierceness of His love in Christ.
* When we drift away in disobedience, we experience His discipline. His judgments are just.
* The pathway back must begin with:
o A humility and brokenness before the Lord.
o A desperation to find the face of God.
o A heart cry for the mercy of God.
o A desire to turn from our sinful ways.
o A resolve to return to the ways of God.
This is what the ancient words of Scripture are calling us to do when we speak of a "Call 2 Fall."
I emphasized the blue text, because Perkins provides explicit guidance on how to "return to the ways of God" through directives mailed to churches and posted on the internet. The directives fan moral outrage against President Obama, people with "various forms of sexual perversion: homosexuality, cross-dressing, and gender manipulation/mutilation" and pro-choice advocates. And they call for support or opposition to specific pieces of legislation, like the federal hate crimes bill. Likewise, Larry Stickney immediately followed his invocation of 2 Chronicles 7:14 in his press release with an exhortation to act on Referendum 71.
The connection between Larry Stickney and Tony Perkins is clear. The only thing I can't figure out is whether Larry is consciously using Perkins's model, or has simply become another Perkins zombie.
UPDATE July 16th @ 8:45 am PST: Pastor Randall's lawbreaking continues into Day 6, according to PDC website.
UPDATE2 July 16th @ 1:00 pm PST: F&F PAC finally submitted their report about an hour ago (and 6 days late!) claiming they thought they were to use the candidate reporting schedule, according to a PDC employee. A poor excuse for Randall, who has run his PAC in Washington for years and surly knows the ropes.
In June Gary paid himself another $1,179 for his redundant website. To date, Gary Randall's payments to himself amount to a whopping 49.8% of all R-71 expenditures made by F&F PAC. Yet as he exhorts people to go collect those signatures, he seems to still be sitting on over $3,000 in unspent donations. Today's choice words from Gary
Expenses are continuing during the collection of petitions. Thank you for your financial support.
It's worse than I originally thought. A brief recap: Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). Gary Randall claims that his Faith & Freedom PAC "is presently, exclusively committed to Referendum 71. All donations to the PAC are used for the Referendum 71 project."
This past Monday, a PDC employee left a message with F&F PAC, reminding them that their expenditure report was overdue. By law, the deadline was July 10th. Since then, F&F PAC has filed two more contribution reports, but still no expenditure report.
Here is why the expenditure report is so important. Besides telling us how donor contributions were spent, attached to that report is the In-Kind donation report. In-kind donations may include other entities providing you with paid signature gatherers, for example. Until F&F PAC files its missing expense report with the in-kind contribution attachment, Washington voters won't know whether they've been hoodwinked by Randall & his local collaborator Larry Stickney in their claims that this is a local grassroots campaign.
Monday, Gary Randall was all a-flutter because two of his Referendum 71 signature gatherers had their pictures taken as they sat at a petition table.
Monday, July 13, 2009 Agressive Opposition at Wal-Mart ...Then this older woman came by, very aggressively against us, speaking in an angry tone, using language I do not use. Eric said that he would go in and talk to the manager, which he did. A man with her took our pictures. Then some time later the police came telling us we were trespassing and that we had to leave.
I presume that Gary intended his readers to conclude this was bad, or he wouldn't have reported it. But then Tuesday morning he recommended that his followers do the very thing he clucked over the day before:
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Video Camera Wards Off Harassment ...one of our signature gatherers gave us a great idea yesterday. She emailed me saying that she has found that if she keeps her video camera with her and begins taking video of those who are verbally assaulting her, they leave very quickly. If you have any video of this kind of behavior, please send it to us at info@faithandfreedom.us.
So fair-minded people taking pictures is bad, but if an anti-family Garyity can get an angry ho-mo-sekshulist on tape all is forgiven?
There goes Gary Cottontail,
Flippin' down the floppin' trail,
Flippity floppity
Double-standards are his way...
I think it only fair to remind Gary to be careful in encouraging his followers to get too shutterbuggy. Some of them just don't know when to stop.
Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). A PDC employee with whom I just spoke confirms that PDC has not received Faith & Freedom PAC's expenditure report for June. It was due 3 days ago, on July 10th. Even Larry Stickney managed to get his embarrassing report in on time.
Is Gary Randall trying to hide something, like this or this perhaps? Does he hate Washington's sunshine laws? Or is he just a bad manager? Or all the above? You would think that after the embarrassment of falling behind in signature gathering, Gary would try to make a good impression by dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.
Gay divorcee Matt Shea (R-Mead) can't find a way to justify his discriminatory anti-child, anti-family Referendum 71, so he's trying to gain voter sympathy by preemptively claiming victimhood in a letter to the editor. As part of a community whose members actually do get bullied to death, raped, beaten and murdered daily, I can only shake my head in disbelief at wolf Shea's snarling from beneath sheep's clothing. It's a terribly craven and pathetic attempt to distract voters from the fact that Gary Randall and Larry Stickney have yet to tell petition signers whether they'll sell, trade or use in-house all the juicy personal information they've already copied from the R-71 petitions.
WhoSigned.org is promising to publish, on the Internet, personal information of those signing Referendum 71 to "prevent voter fraud" and "foster discussion." Yet, that's not what happened recently in California when a similar website published personal information. Marriage Amendment supporters there had homes and churches vandalized, lost jobs and faced threats of violence and death.
Alliance Defense Fund is involved in a major lawsuit to stop such a flagrant misuse of public information. ADF has set up a hotline (1-xxx-xxx-xxxx) and website www.telladf.org/r71 for Washingtonians who believe they've suffered retaliation because their names appeared on WhoSigned.org.
Please continue to support the R-71 effort if at all possible. Our expenses are significant...PLEASE contribute to this effort with a donation as soon as possible.
ka-CHING!!! According to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission, Larry Stickney's misnamed Protect Marriage Washington, the organization behind Washington's anti-family Referendum 71, has a $206 deficit. But no worries, because Larry made sure to pay himself $6,500 in June salaries. Larry Stickney's grossly opulent salary accounts for almost 36% of the donations received by Protect Marriage Washington. I thought he and Gary Randall were on the outs, but it looks like Larry is Gary's protege after all. Milk 'em for all they're worth, Larry!
To see what Larry did to earn all that loot (missing deadlines, insulting the press, wasting time filing legal challenges only to withdraw them prematurely, etc.), click here or here. No wonder few referendum endorses contributed scarce cash to PMW - perhaps they knew it'd end up in the greedy pockets of the inept Larry Stickney.
The Washington State Catholic Conference (WSCC), which "represents the Catholic Bishops of the State of Washington on issues of public policy", has posted a link to this notice on the main page of their website (hyperlinks are mine).
Passed by the 2009 Legislature, SSB 5688 granted all of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples in Washington State. Referendum 71 seeks to overturn SSB 5688, known as the "all but marriage" law...
WSCC opposed SSB 5688 because proponents publically (sic) stated that this legislation was intended to extend existing marriage rights to same-sex couples as a precursor to legalizing gay marriage in Washington State. While opposing all unjust discrimination against any individual, WSCC upholds marriage as a union between a man and a woman, which is the foundation of our civil society.
Opposing "unjust discrimination" implies that some discrimination is justified, that it can be just to discriminate. According to the bishops of Washington, it is just to destabilize and undermine LGBT families. The bishops believe it just to disadvantage children by preventing their LGBT parents from protecting them to the fullest extent of the law via domestic partnerships or marriage.
How do these people have the nerve to show their faces in public after spouting such anti-family nastiness?
CORRECTION: An astute Blend reader has notified me that the reporting deadline for expenses incurred in June by referendum PACs is July 10th. I've re-read the PDC documents, and he is correct. I have, therefore, made a regrettable error in calling out Stickney and Randall for not yet reporting their printing and related expenses. They have not earned the accusation of hiding their campaign expenditures. I am sorry for this error and I do apologize.
Now the question is, do I yank the diary, or leave it up with corrections? After some deliberation, I have decided to leave it up but strike out the erroneous text and correct the title. This is my way of accepting responsibility for my mistake. However, I will remove the diary entirely if either Gary Randall or Larry Stickney request me to via e-mail.
Larry Stickney...said he printed 60,000 of the R-71 jumbo petitions June 5 and circulated all but 2,000 by Friday.
Gary Randall subsequently pitched an additional plan to "[P]ut out a large mailing...to over 50,000 homes that are known to be social conservatives. We want mail a petition to every home on that list.". That plan would have required printing 50,000 additional petitions. The fate of the plan remains unremarked upon by Randall.
So we know that Stickney's and/or Randall's organization(s) paid for the printing of 60,000 petitions, and perhaps up to another 50,000. To date, however, Stickney's organization Protect Marriage Washington has onlyreported $3.61 in expenses. Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC, which is "dedicated" to the referendum effort, has onlyreported $1,553.51 in expenses, $1,119 of which Gary Randall apparently paid to himself to set up a redundant website. Neither organization reports design or printing expenses. It's hard to believe that 60,000 to 110,000 petitions got printed for free.
To the right is a screen shot featuring Pentecostal ministers 
Besides making a mockery of their own TRO, the actions of Larry and Gary pull the rug out from under the melodramatic tripe that Stephen Pidgeon 
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's 
After sitting out the Referendum 71 signature drive due to ill health, Ken Hutcherson is back with claws bared...for his brother Christians.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" 
The Call 2 Fall Declaration comes straight from the pages of Scripture:
WhoSigned.org is promising to publish, on the Internet, personal information of those signing Referendum 71 to "prevent voter fraud" and "foster discussion." Yet, that's not what happened recently in California when a similar website published personal information. Marriage Amendment supporters there had homes and churches vandalized, lost jobs and faced threats of violence and death.
