Organizing for America, the campaign arm of the DNC, sent mass emails around to voters across the country in the past few days, urging people on their list in areas with an election to get out and vote. If that was the entire ask, that would be fine. However, Joe Sudbay and John Aravosis noticed a disparity in those OFA emails: in New Jersey and other states, OFA asked their supporters to support the Democrat. In Maine, the email merely asks supporters to get out and vote, without specifically calling for a vote against Question 1, which would repeal the gay marriage law passed in the state earlier this year. In fact, some voters in Maine got emails from OFA asking them to help get out the vote – in New Jersey!

So now we know the rest of the story. This wasn’t an issue of OFA not getting involved in politics (they are, after all, an arm of the DNC – that’s what they do, politics). They absolutely get involved in state elections, so long as the election isn’t about the g-a-y.

And actually, even that isn’t exactly true. The DNC under Howard Dean donated $25,000 to the battle to defeat Prop 8 in California (albeit a bit late), before Barack Obama became president. Democrats asked Barack Obama’s DNC to donate to the Maine effort as well – the DNC ignored the request.

Tell us again why any gay voter should help the DNC ever again? And where is our President, the “fierce advocate”? This is his list, and OFA’s top staffers were all the top staffers on the Obama campaign. So, who came up with the idea to ask Maine voters to contact New Jersey when Maine has its own hugely important election? Did the White House have a say in OFA not helping gay Americans keep their civil rights in Maine?

Despite signing a LGBT-inclusive hate crimes bill and ending the HIV travel ban, the President is still looked at skeptically by the gay community because of a series of slights, and this will certainly not help matters – especially if Question 1 passes, and gay activists connect the loss to the DNC’s hesistancy to speak strongly on the matter.

The DNC is denying that they’ve sent these emails to Maine voters, but AmericaBlog found at least one Maine voter who got it.