Los Angeles
Winning Marriage - August 19, 2009 / 7:30 p.m.
- Noted Campaign Strategist Fred Karger talks about tactics that work.
Want to know how to bring marriage equality back to California? Fred Karger will describe effective actions each of us can take.
Fred has been fashioning winning campaigns—political and public relations—for over 35 years. In July 2008, independent of the official campaign committee, he launched his own effort to defeat Proposition 8, organizing the highly effective and controversial Californians Against Hate. Californians Against Hate publicizes the names of mega donors—both organizations and individuals—who financed the Yes on 8 campaign, attacking the rights of LGBT persons to marry.
But Karger is not satisfied with publicizing this roster of shame. He has taken aggressive action against some of the major players, particularly those who seek to remain anonymous. In November 2008, he filed a sworn complaint against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) with the California Fair Political Practices Commission for not reporting extensive non-monetary contributions to Yes on 8. The FPPC has been investigating those charges. Californians Against Hate has also led four successful boycotts of companies who gave $100,000 or more to Yes on 8, and were successful in settling two of them.
For 27 years a member of The Dolphin Group, a well-known political consulting and public affairs firm, he rose to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. While at the Dolphin Group, Karger managed numerous federal, state and local campaigns. He ran several successful opposition campaigns, including heavy involvement in two Presidential elections.
Upon his retirement in 2004, he turned his formidable talents to civic issues, taking up the struggle for LGBT rights in 2006. Karger founded Save the Boom, a grassroots campaign to save the oldest gay bar in the Western US, the landmark Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn in which it was housed.
Come and hear this fearless campaign expert’s practical advice on regaining equal marriage rights.
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