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Tim Gill's millions pushes immoral gay marriage

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Image via Wikipedia Colorado 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 hir...