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Follow The Money

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Source Summary

In my last blog post, Where Your HRC Donations Are Going, I reported that HRC had donated money to sponsor the Log Cabin Republicans but that they had donated zero dollars to sponsor the Stonewall Democrats. Let’s take a closer look at who HRC is NOT supporting and what that effect has and will be. In this email, Steve Driscoll, Co-Chair of the Stonewall Democrats, discusses the nonsupport of the Human Rights Campaign in the efforts of the NSD to elect Obama for President. From: StDriscoll@… To: _____________________ Cc: jhoadley@stonewalldemocrats.org Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM Subject: HRC Sucks. In light of HRC taking the weasel way out – again – I think we should take the lead. I might also add, that after beginning discussions with HRC in OCTOBER about collaborating on events for the Democratic National Convention (to avoid the the anger and resentment they engendered by

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Follow The Money” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging interpretive analysis. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “Follow The Money” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to interpretive analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “Follow The Money.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of law and civil rights may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

Content analysis

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2008. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 24, 2026

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Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026

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1 2008

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Can I Have a Refund Please?

Can I Have a Refund Please? · transadvocate.com · September 4, 2008

[...] giving money to the NSD. That trust was shattered on September 2nd, 2008. Ethan St. Pierre reported here of an e-mail from Steve Driscoll, the Co-Chair of the Stonewall Democrats, saying: I might also add, [...]

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations