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Holy Ca-moly. Talk about a stunning line of developments. Today, Rick Jacobs, head of Courage Campaign filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission accusing Prop 8 defense attorney Andrew Pugno of misusing public funds to help pass the the Knight initiative, a ’90s state legislative effort that called for the ban of gay marriages in California.

Read the following from Courage’s Trial Tracker Web site:

The Courage Campaign’s Rick Jacobs today filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission today against Andy Pugno, one of the key figures behind the effort to ban same-sex marriage in California.

The complaint, which is included below as a Scribd embed, alleges that Pugno misused public funds while on the staff of State Senator Pete Knight in the late 1990s to help the campaign to pass the so-called “Knight Initiative” – a California version of the Defense of Marriage Act banning same-sex marriage. This went to voters in November 2000 as Proposition 22 and was approved with 61% of the vote. This was struck down by the California Supreme Court in May 2008, and in turn Pugno and his allies in the leadership of the LDS and Catholic Churches put Prop 8 on the ballot to change the state constitution to ban marriage. The evidence suggests that not only was Pugno involved with those institutions involved in the planning and management of Prop 8 as we learned at the trial, but that their collaboration goes back into the late 1990s and may have violated state law.

Here’s a copy of the complaint filed by Rick Jacobs:

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