Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family Spent $100k on Prop 8, Then Laid Off One-Fifth of Its Workers
The Mormon church was widely credited with bankrolling the Proposition 8 campaign to ban gay marriage in California last November. But Focus on the Family actually spent considerably more, including a $100,000 check just days before the Colorado Springs-based evangelical group laid off 20 percent of its employees, reports TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent.
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Disgraced Rove Aide Named Top Lobbyist for Focus on the Family
Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush administration political operative Tim Goeglein too.
He’s been named the top Washington lobbyist for Focus on the Family, according to a little-noticed “comings and goings” political column in the Fort Wayne [...]
Did McCain Flip-Flop on GOP Platform — or Is Palin Winging It?
Marc Ambinder speculates on why Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would tell Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson that Sen. John McCain now supports planks of the Republican Party platform that he previously opposed, including constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and all abortions, and opposition to embryonic stem cell research.
During an interview today on Dobson’s [...]
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