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The opposing sides in the fight over the nondiscrimination ordinance approved by voters in Kalamazoo, Mich., last month used about $458,000 in cash and in-kind contributions, representing a record-breaking effort in which LGBT rights opponents were vastly outspent.
Proponents of the ordinance, which passed by a vote of 7,671 to 4,731, raised $402,035, compared to $55,209 raised by opponents, according to campaign finance records reported by the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The largest single contributor to One Kalamazoo, the group that sought to pass the ordinance, which protects LGBT people against discrimination, was philanthropist Jon Stryker, who gave $112,800. His contributions represented about $1 of every $3 raised in cash by One Kalamazoo.
The campaigns together set a spending record for a single ballot proposition in a Kalamazoo County election, according to the Gazette.
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