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of $100,000 they earned due to investing , approximately eight out of 10 (82%)
gays and 73 percent of heterosexuals say they would reinvest the money into
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In an article in the January 26, 2005 Washington Post , it was reported
that Maggie Gallagher had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and
Human Services to help promote the President's $300 million marriage promotion
initiative.
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Washington Post article Gallagher received more than $40,000 in federal
funding . Gallagher appeared as a witness for the
majority at Senate hearings on the subject of the Federal Marriage Amendment
(later renamed the Marriage Protection Amendment) on September 4, 2003 and
March 3, 2004. Yet to the best of our knowledge,
Members of Congress, the public, and the media were not informed of
Gallagher's financial interests in the subjects or the federal funds that she
received .

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"The public deserves to know if there are other 'pay-to-sway' columnists
and opinion leaders on the Bush Administration payroll ," said HRC Political
Director Winnie Stachelberg." During this
time, Gallagher wrote on family and marriage promotion issues extensively in
her syndicated columns (Gallagher's articles have appeared in the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and the National Review,
among other publications), without disclosing her contracts or funding to the
publications or her readership . The failure to disclose a financial conflict-
of-interest seems to us to be a clear violation of the public's trust in
journalistic integrity. In an era of pinched
funding, when critical health care and social service programs are
experiencing severe budget cuts, we find the use of government funds for
political advocacy to be deeply troubling.
If you have any questions or need more information , please contact the Legal
Director of the Human Rights Campaign, Kevin Layton. Witeck-Combs Communications /Harris Interactive Survey Suggests Gays More
Likely to Reinvest Assets and Remain More Wary of Financial Institutions

ROCHESTER, N. 46 45 47
I feel confident enough to make
sensible investment decisions. 27 36 26
I am dissatisfied with the assistance
that has been provided to me by
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Perhaps underscoring how gays believe trust plays a role in choosing a
financial vendor, if there is little difference on price, quality and function
of a product or a service, gays (48%) would prefer to bundle their financial
services and products from one financial institution or broker/representative
while one in four (25%) gay adults say they prefer different financial
institutions for each financial product (such as insurance, investing, general
banking, etc. 44 49 44
I worry about my individual privacy
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Gallagher testified in the Senate in
support of the discriminatory constitutional amendment and wrote numerous
syndicated columns on these issues. Gallagher's funding included a $21,500 contract with the Department
of Health and Human Services to help promote the President's $300 million
marriage promotion initiatives and an additional $20,000 in funding in 2002
and 2003 for writing the report "Can Government Strengthen Marriage?"
During the same period, Gallagher also wrote extensively on marriage
issues in syndicated columns that appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, National Review and Washington Post, as well as other publications. The Martindale-Hubbell database of more than 1 million
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And GLB respondents (34%) say they are dissatisfied with the assistance
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TABLE 1
LIKELY INVESTMENT DECISIONS WITH $100,000
"If you were to make $100,000 due to investing, how likely would you be to use
some part of that money for each of the following?
(Percentages of those who say very or somewhat likely )

Base: All Adults

Total GLB Heterosexual
% % %
Traveling for pleasure 75 80 75
Reinvest the money into tax-free
accounts (such as retirement
accounts/bonds) 73 82 73
Improving your home, or buying a
vacation or retirement home 69 67 70
Reinvest the money in checking,
savings, or money market accounts 68 80 68
Putting money aside for your children
or grandchildren 64 24 68
Making substantial contributions to
charities, institutions, or causes
you agree with 61 57 62
Reinvest in the stock market 53 59 53
Treating yourself to a luxury item
such as expensive jewelry, clothes,
or a car 45 55 44
Early retirement 39 48 39
Starting your own business 26 31 26


TABLE 2
AGREE WITH STATEMENTS ABOUT FINANCIAL HEALTH
"Please tell us how strongly you agree or disagree with the following
statements."
(% Very/Somewhat agree)
Base: All Adults


Total GLB Heterosexual
% % %
I am in control of my finances. 19 19 19
Investing is something I feel obligated
to do, but I don't enjoy doing it. EOE M/F/D/V.

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HRC: Investigate 'Pay-To-Sway' Columnist for Possible Legal Violations

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"I wonder how many of Gallagher's readers would believe anybody could have
forgotten about a check for $400, let alone $40,000," added Stachelberg."

Text of the letter follows.
We appreciate your attention to this matter and anticipate your response .S. There are several other possible
sources of error in all polls or surveys that are probably more serious than
theoretical calculations of sampling error.

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experiencing severe budget cuts, we find the use of government funds for
political advocacy to be deeply troubling. With over nine years experience
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relationships throughout the community and serves as a bridge between
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In a column Gallagher published Jan.
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Dear Mr. We do not believe that Members of Congress and the public can
adequately and fully assess information when past or current financial
interests (particularly government contracts) are not disclosed beforehand .martindale.lexisnexis., According to a recent nationwide
online survey, gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) adults may differ from
heterosexuals when considering their personal financial needs -- especially
decisions on investing, spending and working with financial institutions.
These are a few highlights of a nationwide survey of 2,322 U.

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Levinson:

The Human Rights Campaign, on behalf of its more than 600,000 members
nationwide, writes to express dismay over recent information indicating that
Maggie Gallagher was a recipient of federal government grants to promote Bush
Administration family initiatives, but did not disclose these facts to the
public or to Congress when she testified in the Senate on the Federal Marriage
Amendment (later renamed the Marriage Protection Amendment ) or when she wrote
numerous syndicated columns on these and other family issues.
Lastly, in the face of recent controversy about government contracts
received by Armstrong Williams, we would like to sound a note of concern about
the use of taxpayer dollars to fund advocacy efforts.S.S.
The new survey also asked both GLB and non-gay respondents whether they
agree or disagree with a number of statements about their financial health and
the financial institutions that serve them .
This online sample is not a probability sample. In addition, given the low incidence of
response from transgendered individuals, it is extremely difficult to draw
conclusions from the data captured .
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According to a Jan.
"Gallagher seems deeply out-of-touch with most of the parents for whom she
purports to advocate.

Sincerely,

Winnie Stachelberg
Political Director


The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender political organization with members throughout the country .nacdl. Seven out of ten (71%) GLB adults and 59 percent of non-gay
respondents say, "It is important to me to know that a financial institution
does not discriminate. 39 40 39
I enjoy learning about investing and
talking with friends and family about
it.
These statements conform to the principles of disclosure of the National
Council on Public Polls.

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Both times, Gallagher's testimony extensively involved and
explored issues of the family and marriage.----LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R), the leading client
development company for the legal profession, has entered into a
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institutions remain a far higher priority to GLB adults than to non-gay
respondents .)
"Managing, protecting and growing financial assets are important to
everyone. 59 56 60
It's important to me to know that a
financial institution does not
discriminate.)?"

All Adults


Total GLB Heterosexual
% % %
Bundled products managed
by one representative or
company 39 48 39
Multiple vendors for
financial services 30 25 30
Neither of these 10 7 11
Does not matter 20 20 20

Methodology
Harris Interactive(R) conducted the study online within the United States
between May 4 and 10, 2005, among a nationwide cross section of 2,322 adults
(aged 18 and over), of whom 158 self-identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
(GLB).witeckcombs.
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technology to advance market leadership through its U.

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Daniel Levinson
Acting Inspector General
Department of Health and Human Services
330 Independence Avenue, S. In addition, Gallagher apparently had received an additional
$20,000 through a United States Justice Department grant in 2002 and 2003 for
writing a report, titled "Can Government Strengthen Marriage?.martindale.
Not surprisingly , given the higher incidence of children in non-gay
households, heterosexual adults (68%) are more likely than gays (24%) to say
that they would put money aside for children or grandchildren. 24% of heterosexuals).

About Harris Interactive(R)
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"Law firms must make some difficult choices when deciding how to
market their practices on the Web."

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TABLE 3
BUNDLED OR UNBUNDLED SERVICES
"If there is little difference on price, quality and function of a product or
a service, would you prefer to bundle your financial services and products
from one financial institution or broker /representative, or use different
financial institutions for each financial product (such as insurance ,
investing, general banking, etc.novatris.

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In addition, the NACDL will also be granted a free license to
place Martindale-Hubbell's lawyers.

About LexisNexis

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strategic public relations and marketing communications firm with special
expertise in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender market. 33 36 33
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to respect customers like me. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for
respondents' propensity to be online . Sampling error for the GLB sample
results is plus or minus 8 percentage points.harrisinteractive .com), and through an independent global network of
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We would like to know whether
federal law or congressional rules were violated when Gallagher testified
before Congress, testimony that to our knowledge was not preceded by
disclosures of these financial contracts and interests. 25 following an interview with Washington
Post reporter Howard Kurtz, Gallagher wrote , "I should have disclosed a
government contract when I later wrote about the Bush marriage initiative . NACDL members are no different and
we look forward to working with them to develop strategies that will
help them attract new clients," said Paul Gazzolo, chief operating
officer of New Providence , N. 36% of non-gays). Figures for age, sex, race, education, region and income were weighted
where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the
population. They include refusals to be
interviewed (non-response), question wording and question order and weighting.

(1) Please note that base size for the GLB sample is very low, so caution
should be used when considering comparisons to heterosexuals or adults
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Gallagher appeared as a witness for the majority at the Senate hearings on
the Federal Marriage Amendment (later renamed the Marriage Protection
Amendment) on Sept.
More troublingly, we would like to know whether federal law or
congressional rules were violated when Gallagher testified before Congress,
testimony that to our knowledge was not preceded by disclosures of these
financial contracts and interests.com) is a leader in comprehensive
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'The Public Deserves to Know if There are Other 'Pay-To-Sway' Columnists
and Opinion Leaders on the Bush Administration Payroll,'
Said HRC Political Director Winnie Stachelberg

WASHINGTON, In a letter to the Acting Inspector
General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Human Rights
Campaign requested an investigation to determine whether columnist Maggie
Gallagher, having received more than $40,000 in federal grants to promote
President Bush's marriage initiatives, violated federal law by not disclosing
the funding to the public or Congress.W.
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Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer HomePages, dynamic Web sites that provide
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In addition , if reaping windfall earnings such as $100,000, over half of
GLB respondents (55%) say they would be somewhat or very likely to treat
themselves to "a luxury item" such as jewelry, clothes or a car , compared to
44 percent of heterosexual adults. adults, of
whom seven percent (158) identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual. It is growing clearer however that gays and lesbians share these
concerns but have different attitudes toward investing and toward forming
trusted relationships with financial institutions," said Jake Stafford, senior
communications strategist at Witeck-Combs Communications. "These data provide
many insights financial institutions may use to successfully reach out to
their current and prospective gay customers in a direct manner that meets
their needs as individuals and families.
In theory, with a probability sample of this size, one can say with 95
percent certainty that the results for the overall sample have a sampling
error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. queried gay, lesbian,
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