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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Some compared the feeling to when Gavin Newsom opened San Francisco City
Hall for same-sex couples to marry. Others thought of the jubilation
surrounding the California Supreme Court decision in 2008. Still more
invoked the euphoria the night New York passed marriage equality legislation
. Even as people groped for examples to describe their emotions around the
news that President Obama had come out in favor of full marriage equality on
Wednesday, a surge in donations following his historic announcement spoke
loud and clear.
“There’s no question that the community is ecstatic,” said Dana Perlman,
one of eight co-chairs of the LGBT Leadership Council, the constituent group
for the Obama campaign and the DNC. “People are expressing their pleasure
and glee through contributions. The energy is so great, and I think people
want to show their appreciation in some way.”
According to BuzzFeed, an unnamed Democratic source said the campaign raised
$1 million in the 90 minutes following news that the president had come out
in favor of marriage equality. The campaign would not confirm the amount
and has declined to discuss any campaign finance-related matters in the wake
of the announcement.
Top campaign bundlers such as Perlman described a spike in fund-raising and
new donors in the day since Obama made the announcement. They said people at
all giving levels responded to a moment that crystallized the sharp
distinctions between Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger. The
presumptive Republican nominee, who had already pledged his support for a
federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, reacted to the
development by affirming his opposition to marriage equality and any kind of
comparable civil union.
“All of a sudden it makes things really clear,” said Perlman. “It doesn’
t get any clearer than someone who’s for me and someone’s who’s for a
constitutional amendment on the other hand. This is something where people
now feel, contrasted with what Mitt Romney said yesterday. There should be
no guessing in any LGBT person’s or ally’s mind who they should support.”
Though progress on repeals of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and DOMA had
already coalesced heavy-hitting LGBT support for Obama, the president’s
final evolution on marriage equality may have enticed some remaining
holdouts. “I’ve seen a lot folks who have withheld contributions until now
, and are now maxing out to his campaign,” said Kirk Fordham, executive
director of Gill Action. “He’s certainly energized not just the LGBT base,
but the progressive base as well.”
In the past week, reports swirled that top LGBT donors, who comprise a
significant chunk of Obama's fund-raising arsenal, had withheld donations
over frustration with the president’s position on marriage and his refusal
to sign an executive order barring discrimination in federal contracting.
Wally Brewster, a Leadership Council co-chair in Chicago, said most donors
he knew were pleased with the president’s overall record, and among those
who had doubts about marriage equality, the announcement on Wednesday
assuaged their concerns.
“It was a defining issue for a small group of people,” he said. “Some
people wanted to hear the leader of our country step out and say the word.
We know he’s been there, but I think there were a few people who were
waiting, and I think now, it’s no question.”
Perlman said that one woman who was withholding money over the marriage
issue contacted him Wednesday morning and they “agreed to disagree.” A few
hours later, after the president’s interview with ABC News, she called and
made one of her largest-ever political donations, and posted about it
online.
Growing frustration with a muddled position on marriage cut across the
president’s base, both gay and straight, one political operative said. Many
straight progressive donors, the strategist said, “think it was a smart
move for the president to come out now, that it was overdue. He was
beginning to look tortured and uncomfortable on this particular issue, so I
think in some ways it was liberating to see.”
Gay and straight Democrats alike will have plenty of opportunity for payback
in the near future. Tonight, the president is scheduled to attend a
reported $15 million fundraiser in Los Angeles at the Studio City home of
George Clooney, one to be attended by marriage equality figures such as
Barbra Streisand, director Rob Reiner, and Dreamworks executive Jeffrey
Katzenberg. Next week, Ricky Martin will host an event at the Rubin Museum
of Art in New York.
In Florida, donors with the group Democracy Alliance are meeting in Coral
Gables, an event attended by Jonathan Lewis, one of the most prolific gay
political donors in the country. Brewster said that he and his partner Bob
Satawake will co-host a dinner for the president with a straight African-
American couple in Chicago on June 1.
Perlman is organizing the largest LGBT-specific event, the DNC LGBT
Leadership gala in Los Angeles on June 6 featuring the singer Pink. He said
interest in the event was already strong, but the buzz skyrocketed after the
president’s announcement. Compared to last year, when Obama was heckled
over his stance at the same event in New York City, this year is expected to
be outright jubilant.
“There’s no question that what has happened in the past few days has
heightened the anticipation and the enthusiasm,” he said. “They want to go
and celebrate with the president on June 6.”
Some in the LGBT community who have already maxed out their donations to the
Obama campaign are looking to give using other channels, such as the Obama
SuperPAC, Priorities USA, or outside grassroots campaigns in key swing
states. The president has notably lagged behind Romney in SuperPAC fund-
raising.
Other donors have taken a do-it-yourself approach, taking to Facebook and
other social networking sites to set up fund-raising pages in the past day.
The small donations and grassroots efforts seem to reflect the spirit of the
first Obama campaign in 2008.
“From a social media perspective, you could see there is a groundswell with
the LGBT community but also outside the community who are allies, like
young people,” said Brewster. “It’s a very important issue for them. It’
s an equal rights issue for them.”
Reporting by Julie Bolcer and Andrew Harmon. | m******1
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