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[quote=jsteele]DC politics can be tough. Muriel Bowser's young mayoral campaign is facing its first controversy:

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/04/24/anti-gay-consultant-working-for-bowser-mayoral-campaign/

"A political consultant who was paid by an anti-gay group to lead the effort to place D.C.’s same-sex marriage law on the ballot in a voter referendum in 2010 is serving on a fundraising committee for D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser’s campaign for mayor."

This controversy involves Bob King, a Ward 5 ANC. According to the article:

"Records from the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance show that the National Organization for Marriage paid King $60,900 to, among other things, distribute fliers during the 2010 City Council election to urge voters to vote against Council members up for re-election who voted for the marriage equality law."

Bob King is also known for organizing bus-loads of seniors to go to voting centers. The seniors get a free meal, are given campaign literature for King's preferred candidates, and are then taken to vote. King has refused to disclose the donors who pay for the buses and his preferred candidates don't report anything to do with this on their campaign finance reports. So, basically, this is an unreported and undisclosed campaign expenditure. Seems like a strange guy for Bowser -- who wrote Council's ethics bill and mysteriously didn't include anything about campaign finance reform, to associate with.
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