Fred Karger
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Fred’s extensive experience in politics and governmental affairs has spanned over 35 years. As a partner of the Dolphin Group, Fred managed numerous federal, state and local campaigns. He ran several successful opposition campaigns, including heavy involvement in three Presidential races.

In 2006 Karger founded Save the Boom!!! a grassroots campaign to save the oldest gay bar in the Western United States, the landmark Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn in Laguna Beach, California. This got Fred active in LGBTQ politics, and was the natural precursor to his starting Californians Against Hate - now Rights Equal Rights

Californians Against Hate was created to bring public attention to the major donors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. Fred organized boycotts against four mega-donors to Proposition 8, two were settled and two are ongoing. Proposition 8 passed in a very close election on November 4, 2008, and ended gay marriage in California.

Right after the election, Fred filed a sworn complaint against the Mormon Church with the California Fair Political Practices Commission for possible illegal campaign activities surrounding its massive involvement in Proposition 8. That led to the prosecution and a 19 month investigation, culminating in a 13 count guilty finding against the Salt Lake City based Church.

Fred filed a similar complaint with the Maine Ethics Commission against the infamous National Organization for Marriage, alleging money laundering and reporting irregularities in that state’s November 2009 election to repeal its marriage equality law. That investigation is ongoing.

On April 10, 2010 at a press conference at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Fred announced that he was seriously considering running for President in 2012 as an Independent Republican. He would be the first openly gay candidate to run for President of the Untied States.

Since his announcement Fred has traveled extensively throughout the country, with repeated visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, home to the first caucuses and primary in the nation.

Blog Entries by Fred Karger

FPPC Sworn Complaint Filed Against NOM

(18) Comments | Posted May 17, 2012 | 2:01 PM

This week I filed a sworn supplemental complaint against the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) with the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). The 37 page document accuses (NOM) of not reporting $345,400 in contributions that it received from 11 donors in 2008 including GOP Presidential candidate Mitt...

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A Republican Presidential Candidate Reaches Out to Hispanic Voters

(4) Comments | Posted March 22, 2012 | 8:07 AM

I was in Puerto Rico for six days leading up to the Republican Primary there. I was one of 6 Republicans on the primary ballot. I differ greatly from the other five on many issues.

Support Statehood and Spanish as First Language

I have supported Statehood for...

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How Involved Is the Mormon Church in Huntsman vs. Romney?

(107) Comments | Posted January 3, 2012 | 12:57 AM

I have been tracking the political activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) for the past three years, ever since it qualified and ran every aspect of the Proposition 8 campaign in my home state of California. After the Mormon Church reported spending only $2078...

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Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown: the Anita Bryant and John Briggs of 2011

(6) Comments | Posted February 16, 2011 | 11:24 PM

I am a Republican with a long and proud Republican History. I worked as a GOP political consultant and advisor for over 30 years.

I was a senior consultant on three Presidential campaigns, including both of Ronald Reagan's. He was a very fair and caring man.

In 1978...

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Pass the 28th Amendment -- Lower the Voting Age!

(2) Comments | Posted February 8, 2011 | 7:21 AM

I feel that we should immediately begin discussion and planning to lower the legal voting age in the United States to either 16- or 17-years-old.

By allowing younger people the privilege to help shape the direction of this great nation, we will encourage participation in the political process at an...

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President Obama, Evolve Already

(156) Comments | Posted December 24, 2010 | 4:35 PM

WASHINGTON, DC - Like millions of Americans, I was so happy to see the president's bill signing ceremony. Don't Ask, Don' Tell created nearly 18 years of government sanctioned and enforced discrimination. Now that it is on its way out, the president seemed genuinely happy for the first time in...

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An Apology Now, Mike Huckabee?

(14) Comments | Posted November 28, 2010 | 5:48 PM

November 29th is a tragic anniversary in American history. It was exactly one year ago today that four police officers in Lakewood, Washington were murdered in cold blood while they ate at a local coffee shop.

The killer, Maurice Clemmons should have been locked up for 108 years. Instead, then...

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Where Have All the Moderates Gone?

(14) Comments | Posted November 15, 2010 | 3:03 PM

Fred Who? That's the question that I get asked all the time as I travel the country testing the waters to determine if I will run for President of the United States in 2012. I made a short commercial that ran in New Hampshire recently to help answer...

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Maggie Gallagher, Stop the Bullying!

(9) Comments | Posted October 5, 2010 | 9:01 AM

Just this past month 5 more gay or gay-perceived teens committed suicide in this country.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), run by Maggie Gallagher and her sidekick, Brian Brown, has spent tens of millions of dollars in the past three years to bully and bash lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

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Mormon Church Tries to Resurrect Its Image, Spends Millions to Repair Prop 8 Damage

(237) Comments | Posted September 27, 2010 | 10:30 AM

Fox News has reported:

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [sic Mormon Church] has been in a public relations tailspin in recent years, taking hits from both the left and the right."

"In 2008 it became the whipping boy for those who opposed Proposition 8,...

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Is Mike Huckabee Nuts?

(12) Comments | Posted August 31, 2010 | 9:56 AM

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee wants to turn the United States back over to God and Jesus.

Huckabee actually said this in a just released 60 second commercial for Lou Engle's "The Call."

In the spot Huckabee says, "Fast and pray and turn this nation back to God,...

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Guest Post by Director Reed Cowan

(0) Comments | Posted August 5, 2010 | 3:54 PM

There are two little boys at my feet right now. I'm typing on my keyboard as one pulls on my left foot saying the word "toe" over and over. He's learning to speak.

The other one, his twin brother who is just two years old -- like clockwork knows...

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We're Changin Our Name

(81) Comments | Posted July 9, 2010 | 2:22 PM

As we take on new challenges, go in new directions and become more national in scope, we are officially changing our name. We are very excited to announce, that from this day forward, Californians Against Hate will be known as Rights Equal Rights.

Our new web...

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James Dobson's Co-Founder Takes Gay Prostitute to Europe

(58) Comments | Posted May 6, 2010 | 2:03 PM

Another extremely influential anti-gay leader was caught with a male prostitute on their return from a 10 day European Vacation.

George Alan Rekers, founded the Family Research Council (FRC) with James Dobson in 1993. The FRC is the political arm of Dobson's more famous operation, Focus on the Family. The...

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Open Letter to Mike Huckabee

(0) Comments | Posted April 19, 2010 | 12:21 AM

50 years ago the Democratic Party was saddled with a bigoted Southern Governor, George Wallace of Alabama. Wallace was famous for his fervent opposition to desegregation. He even ran for president four times on a racist platform.

George Wallace repeatedly lashed out at black Americans, and at his first inauguration...

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Open Letter to Maggie Gallagher

(14) Comments | Posted March 8, 2010 | 11:15 AM

Like millions of Americans, I was able to see the absolute joy experienced by hundreds of gay and lesbian couples who are now able to legally marry in Washington, DC. I wept when I saw television reports of couples who have been together, some for decades, finally able to share...

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Stop the Mormon Church's Nasty Campaign Against Gay Marriage

(6) Comments | Posted January 21, 2010 | 10:47 AM

Coming just two years ahead of New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary, Californians Against Hate's Fred Karger is running "Call Mitt Romney" ads in three major daily newspapers in states where Romney resides: the New Hampshire Union-Leader, the Boston Globe, and the Salt Lake Tribune.

The online ads ask former Massachusetts...

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National Organization for Marriage Donor Names Kept Secret

(4) Comments | Posted December 20, 2009 | 11:24 PM

In possibly the most blatant disregard of a state election law since records have been kept, the Washington, DC-based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) filed its final campaign report this week on Question 1 in Maine, and again refused to provide any of its donor's names. This is in spite...

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Manhattan Declaration -- Who Are They Kidding?

(87) Comments | Posted November 30, 2009 | 9:47 AM

NOM head, Maggie Gallagher, as she puts it, "likes fairy tales." This sure sounds like a fairy tale to me, a very scary one.

Once upon a time there were 152 -- how should I say it -- extremists, all meeting in Manhattan (crazy place for this group to...

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Ex Miss California Fired Again -- Now by NOM

(9) Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 3:03 PM

Ms Maggie Gallagher
President
National Organization for Marriage
1100 H Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005

Dear Maggie --

It looks like you fired former Miss California, Carrie Prejean, just like Donald Trump did back in June.

She is...

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