My earlier post, called “Rob Reiner, the Founder of the Feast,” prompted
a call for citations. How do I know that Rob Reiner is bankrolling the Prop 8 legal challenges? Basically, because he has said so, and
because Ted Olsen thanked him for it.
Look at the website for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. The president of that organization claims to be the
“sole sponsor of the Perry case,” in the video on the lower right hand corner. Also, you can see Rob Reiner in the video at 6:30. Ted Olsen thanks
him and his wife for their support around 7:30 on the video.
Rob Reiner is proud of his involvement and has never hidden it. See articles here and here.
You can also look at the 990 form for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
http://www.afer.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2010-03-31_AFER_IRS-990.pdf ON page 7 you will see that Rob Reiner and his wife are Board Members. They do not report the amount of their financial contributions, as is their
right.
Please note that AFER is a $3.4 million organization, devoted solely to fighting Prop 8 in the courts. Quite a bit bigger than the Ruth Institute!
Prop 8 itself was supported largely by small donors. It was a huge grass roots effort, probably the largest in history. We had 100,000
volunteers, and 70,000 individual contributors. When we filed our financial reporting paperwork with the Secretary of State, our forms were so large
with so many entries that we crashed the computer.
So if you ask who represents the will of the people, I think our side has by far the stronger claim to that title. Marriage between a man and
a woman keeps winning elections. The Marriage Redefining Team keeps losing elections, even with big bank rolls to back them up.
The Marriage Redefiners have gotten to the point of avoiding elections whenever possible.
A handful of rich people, of whom Rob Reiner is the most visible, is working to undermine a perfectly valid election, that tens of thousands of people
actively particated in. The Prop 8 election wasn’t even a close call. The Little People feel very strongly that they are being given
the finger by the Beautiful People, the rich and powerful elites of this country.
And yes, it is fair to call Hollywood people the “Beautiful people,” regardless of their personal appearance. You know exactly what I’m talking about.
The Hollywood gliterati, the media elites, the academics and journalists: they are like the “in-Crowd” in junior high school, who think they can be
mean and bully everyone else. People are fed up with the Life-Style Left, and the Left generally.
So I ask my Friewis: (Friends with Wrong ideas) Are these really your kindof people? Do you really want to associate yourselves with the Hollywood big
wigs? What ever happened to looking out for the Little Guy?