The National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage, said Friday it is launching robocalls against former Rep. Tom Campbell in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. The New Jersey-based group previously aired an independent television ad against Campbell attacking him for his fiscal policies and stance on gay marriage. Campbell supports gay marriage and opposed the 2008 constitutional amendment, Proposition 8, which recognized marriage in California only between a man and a woman.
NOM says it intends to reach 609,000 likely GOP primary voters. “The explicit message of this campaign is: don’t vote for Tom Campbell, because he supports gay marriage as well as raising taxes,” Brian Brown, the organization’s president, said in a statement.
Campbell has said he does not believe in higher taxes, but he would not rule them out entirely. As a gubernatorial candidate last year, he proposed a one-year, 32-cent per gallon tax hike to help balance the budget. He has declined to sign no-new-tax pledges because he says there may be emergency situations in which the federal government would need new tax revenue.
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