Donations pour in for gay issue
Rocky Mountain News
Published September 9, 2006 at midnight
Gay philanthropist Tim Gill's political action committee continues to pour money into the state domestic partnership initiative.
It donated $150,000 last month plus another $44,000 worth of employee time, the latest campaign finance reports show.
Since January, the Gill Action Fund has given more than $370,000 in cash and staff time to the issue committee for Coloradans for Fairness and Equality, the group sponsoring Referendum I and opposing Amendment 43, records show.
Referendum I would allow gay couples to register as domestic partners and obtain many legal rights and responsibilities given to married couples. Amendment 43 would define marriage in the state constitution as a union only between a man and a woman. Both measures go before voters Nov. 7.
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