Tim Gill's millions pushes immoral gay marriage
Image via WikipediaColorado millionaire Tim Gill's low-profile campaign against same-sex marriage opponents in New York state in the midterm election -- a strategy that paid big dividends with the passage of same-sex marriage legislation last night.
The Wall Street Journal looks more at Gill's role in changing the political calculus in Albany:
Last year, Mr. Gill's group pumped in nearly $1 million into a political action committee called Fight Back NY, which financed attack ads against three vulnerable senators—Democrats Hiram Monserrate and Bill Stachowski and Republican Frank Padavan—who voted against the bill in 2009. They lost their seats to gay-marriage friendly candidates."We wanted to send a very strong and clear message about what happens when you double-cross us," said Mr. Gill's political director, Bill Smith, an Alabama-born political operative who began his career in the 1990s working under the tutelage of Karl Rove.Mr. Smith then hired a trio of old Albany hands who had long-standing and close relationships with the Senate Republicans. Michael Avella, a former chief general counsel for the Senate GOP, did the lobbying, feeding intelligence to a field operation led by the Human Rights Campaign.
