For Loudoun Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio, blurred lines on fundraising

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For Loudoun Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio, blurred lines on fundraising

By Caitlin Gibson, Published: September 25
The Washington Post

She worked from a spreadsheet that listed more than a thousand names and the political campaigns to which they had contributed. For weeks earlier this year, she said, she sat in a county office, while on county time, and spent hours calling them, one by one.

If she was successful, Donna Mateer, a part-time aide, was to list the appointment in a Google calendar titled “Eugene 2012 Campaign Schedule,” she said.
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Her accusations add to the controversy surrounding Delgaudio, who has publicly denounced* gay people as “perverts” and “freaks” and routinely injected himself into heated political battles across the country through his conservative nonprofit group, Public Advocate of the United States.
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In Loudoun, the veteran supervisor has long been viewed as something of an eccentric, but recently he has gained more widespread attention. This year, Public Advocate was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. On Tuesday, the civil rights group announced that it would file a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Public Advocate unlawfully used an altered version of a same-sex couple’s engagement photo** on anti-gay-marriage campaign literature*** in Colorado.

* Anti-Tax In Loudoun, Anti-Gay Everywhere

** http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/southern-poverty-law-center-demands-delgaudios-nonprofit-stop-using-gay-couples-photo/2012/07/11/gJQAY2kIdW_blog.html

*** http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/civil-rights-group-to-represent-same-sex-couple-in-complaint-against-delgaudio/2012/07/10/gJQAfBzFdW_story.html

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