A newish vanguard of more reasonable (or realistic) Republican donors is trying to catch up with history by funding lobbying efforts to get GOP lawmakers to support same-sex marriage. That’s right, American voters — some Republicans are actually self-aware enough to realize that their party is straddling a chasm of political obsolescence that it will certainly fall into unless they do something to convince people that the entire GOP isn’t really as febrile as some of its more narrow-minded members.
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer formed American Unity PAC last year to support (with serious cash-money) Republican politicians who support same-sex marriage. Singer, along with the other founders of the PAC, has now launched a new lobbying organization called American Unity Fund, which has spread about $500,000 worth of lobbying over the last month across states like Rhode Island, West Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, and Utah. In the near-term, the most significant expenditure might be the $250,000 the Fund has spent in Minnesota, where the legislature, according to the Washington Post, could vote on same-sex marriage as early as next week.
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