On June 24th, the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay group that some say has ties to the Mormon church, raised an ambitious fund-raising challenge to their supporters. For every new Facebook like, Twitter follower, and new text supporter they receive, an anonymous donor would donate one dollar up to $100,000. The deadline for new supporters was today, September 1st.
I never thought that they would hit $100,000, but even I didn't think their efforts would be this pathetic.
Jeremy over at Good as You has been keeping track of NOM's stats over the last couple of months, and the results are just sad. 931 Facebook likes and 298 Twitter followers. That's $1,229.00, people. Unless NOM received 98,771 text messages in the span of two months and six days, it's highly unlikely that they received the $100,000 donation from their "anonymous donor". That is, if there was an anonymous donor in the first place. How much would you like to wager that this was a clever ploy to try to garner more support for their organization?
I would like to see their spin on this.
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