Groups Report Campaign Finances

The group battling the Idaho Citizens Alliance’s latest anti-gay initiative raised more than $101,000 last year in preparation for a second campaign against the proposed ballot measure.

The No On 1 Coalition/Decline to Sign Campaign also spent almost $94,600 during 1995 to keep the network alive that helped beat the 1994 initiative, according to a year-end campaign finance report filed Wednesday with the Idaho secretary of state’s office.

Meanwhile, the Sportsmen’s Heritage Defense Fund reported raising more than $145,000 and spending more than $114,000 during 1995 to fight an anti-bear baiting initiative proposed for the November ballot.

The initiative is sponsored by the Idaho Coalition United for Bears, which reported Wednesday that it raised almost $18,600 last year for the measure that would ban the use of hounds and bait in black bear hunting and eliminate the spring hunting season when female bears are nursing their cubs. , DataTimes