For the better part of three decades, Fred Karger practiced the dark arts of public affairs consultancy, often on the side of corporations and conservative movements. That makes him an unlikely warrior in the struggle for gay marriage and an especially improbable champion of full disclosure in politics.
But Karger has planted himself at the center of both fights. He has organized boycotts of major donors to Proposition 8 and challenged the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and as a result finds himself enmeshed in a federal lawsuit in Sacramento over political disclosure.
California’s capital is filled with operatives who’ve morphed in unexpected ways, but Karger’s saga is the stuff of a Hollywood script. When I first met him in 1986, I never would have suspected he was gay. Few outside his private circle had a clue.
Full Story from The Sacramento Bee
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