Blackwater's Eric Prince, Mother Contribute to CA's Proposition 8

See how over-paying privatized military groups and protecting them from prosecution works?

Mo money for Republican causes!

Excerpt LA Times report "Proposition 8 proponents and foes raise $60 million"  (Link no longer works from this blog.  The Times is hiding articles over 7 days old if not paid a fee.  To revisit the article I copied the title as shown above into Google News which publications often give a free pass to, and clicking on the link got me back into the article.  I will look for a usenet copy of it, as it's possible that the Times will drop Google's pass too soon.)

Another major proponent is Elsa Prince, a contributor to Republican causes and candidates including McCain. Prince, of Holland, Mich., gave $450,000 to support Proposition 8. She's the mother of Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater Worldwide, the private firm that provides security in Iraq.

Mother and son sit on the board of a family foundation that donated $8 million in 2006-07 to Christian groups involved in the Yes-on-8 effort, including $300,000 to Focus on the Family, on whose board she sits. Focus on the Family gave $450,000 to Proposition 8 and $1.35 million to the 22 same-sex marriage ban campaigns in 2004 and 2006."

Mrs. Prince had money of her own as did Eric as an inheritance, but her son has even more to spread around since he got the incredibly lucrative contracts from the US taxpayers. He's using it to fund organizations and foundations that will make sure it gets into the pockets of the right (and I do mean right) candidates and Republican leaning groups.

Many of the younger big donors don't like people to know how much they donate to what causes, though, of course the Republicans are always informed somehow of who plops down big bucks for their campaigns.

Eric Prince sits on the board of "Focus on the Family".  That's a clear indication he donates large bundles of money to the organization.  (In fact, his family gave the mega donations needed to start the religious group and others that started the Republican revolution and takeover of the US by using extreme religion to coerce people into voting Republican -- or else, the implication was that God was watching and Hell is for Democrats.  You might have a chance if you voted reliably third party to help whittle down the Democrats' numbers, but what does the big G do about libertarians?  Are they allowed into heaven after working for free drug use and, even worse, against Republicans though many profess deep faith.  That is some heavy theology they should try to work out, ya' know.  Maybe Sarah Palin's anti-witch pastor can explain it to us.) 

You can't go to opensecrets and find all of Eric Prince's donations that have found ways into Republican candidate's hands. I can only find a couple of maximums to Thelma Drake, probably his representative in VA in 2006.  She seems to have won that one, but may be leaving next year according to RollCall Politics "Drake Loss May Be Nye"   People like Prince hide their big donations in foundations like Focus on the Family.  (What we should uncover is the method in which the these GOP supporting folks and groups get the message to the GOP so their hidden donations can work to help them get extremely lucrative contracts from the government.)

Churches are donating directly to Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, too,  though that is a violation of US tax code.  It's not sermons that the IRS needs to be concerned with, its huge donations taken out of tithes.  In fact, people should be concerned with that too.   There are very specific purposes laid out in the Bible for the tithe, and political donations were not included, I guarantee that.  This is one reason that most pastors and priests don't really want you to actually read the Bible especially Deuteronomy.  They prefer to 'splain it to you.  That's because much of the tithe is supposed to bypass them in one way or another and they don't want you to know about it.  The tithe isn't for the church or the pastors or priests and especially not for political campaigns.  It belongs to the Lord.  And BTW, if you drop it into the donation box and ignore how it ends up then you might be accounting to the IRS and to God over it.

The Times article shows all kinds of big out of state donations are being made.   We really need to stop that.

Outside money shouldn't be allowed to control California!

But first we need to stop the hate in this proposition.  We need to make sure that kids don't have to grow up in second class families as with schools forced to teach that their families are a group of lesser humans just because of the orientation of their parents.

We could also show the big donors for hate legislation and other scams on California like Pickens' gambit to get our tax dollars won't fool us.  Talk to everyone you know about this.   Make sure people you know who don't like the hate built into Proposition 8 get to the polls next Tuesday.

Sure, enacting the hurtful legislation will probably lead to a Roe v Wade for the nation as I explained in an earlier post, but in the years between little kids grow up being treated like members of a second class family.  

Marriages will be ripped apart.  

It's just so wrong as are the lie filled ads being shown by the pro Proposition 8 people.