Quick Note: The National Organization for Marriage Has a Little Math Problem

The National Organization for Marriage is a group dedicated to denying same-sex couples the right to marry.  The NOM just saw its attempt to put itself in the middle of the Oregon same-sex marriage case foiled by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District:   details here

It now finds itself in hot water in Maine.

From The Associated Press:
"A national anti-gay marriage group that helped defeat Maine's same-sex marriage law in 2009 may be fined more than $50,000 and ordered to reveal its donors, after investigators with the Maine Ethics Commission said Monday that its failure to register as a ballot question committee and file campaign finance reports was a significant violation of the law...The group gave nearly $2 million to the political action committee Stand for Marriage Maine, 64 percent of the PAC's total expenditures, the report said.  State law requires groups to register as ballot question committees if they raise or spend more than $5000 to influence a state ballot question."

The Commission will hold a hearing on May 28 and the National Organization for Marriage says they will argue that they complied with all applicable laws; but I don't see how they can be excused for overspending by over $1.95 million.  That's quite an error in simple arithmetic for the Ethics Commission to accept.