Don’t Ask, Don’t Give? John Aravosis and Joe Sudbay at AmericaBlog are calling upon donors to the Democratic National Convention to halt their monetary gifts until the party and the Obama administration deliver upon numerous promises from Obama’s presidential campaign. The bloggers write:
“We are asking voters to pledge to withhold contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America, and the Obama campaign until the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is passed, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) is repealed, and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is repealed -– all of which President Obama repeatedly promised to do if elected.”
The bloggers are emphatic to state that this is not a call for a boycott of the DNC or a blacklisting of funding to the Democratic Party. Instead, it is a “pause,” a gap in gifts that will hopefully motivate the party to work more aggressively upon fulfilling the promises of last Summer.
Announced just this morning, the boycott has already been cosponsored by the Daily Kos, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, Paul Sousa, and other political gay superstars. Will this funding activism force the President and the party to act as the “fierce advocates” they promised to be?

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