The Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board voted unanimously on Thursday to investigate whether the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) violated state law by not disclosing its donors during its push to remove several Iowa Supreme Court justices from the bench.
According to former Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger, who filed the complaint against NOM back in June, the group spent $635,000 in 2010 and around $100,000 in 2012 to try to oust four justices who were part of a unanimous 2009 decision allowing same-sex marriage in Iowa.
…Megan Tooker, the ethics board’s lawyer and executive director, noted that the National Organization for Marriage was “absolutely wrong” in several of its interpretations of state law.
Tooker said if the marriage organization solicited and received donations for the purpose of defeating the Iowa justices, by state law, the names of those donors should have been disclosed.
