Maine Gay Rights Defenders Win Money Race

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The umbrella group leading the campaign to defend Maine's pending gay rights law raised more than five times as much money between early July and the end of September as two major organizations seeking the law's repeal, campaign finance filings with state officials on Tuesday showed.

Maine Won't Discriminate, the pro-gay rights group, reported total cash contributions for the period of about $391,000. On the repeal side, the Maine Grassroots Coalition pegged its latest receipts at a little more than $55,000, while the Coalition for Marriage reported contributions for the period at nearly $20,000.

Taking expenditures into account, Maine Won't Discriminate claimed a balance of more than $266,000. The combined balances of the two groups promoting a people's veto of the pending law was less than $20,000, according to the new filings with the Maine Commission on Ethics and Governmental Practices.