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Posted at 12:01 AM on January 25, 2006 by Bob Collins

The Institute on Money in State Politics is out with a new study on the amount of money spent by ballot committees surrounding same-sex marriage bills at the state level.

Minnesota wasn't one of them, of course, since the bill died in a Senate committee. The closest state was North Dakota.

Groups supporting gay and lesbian rights raised the most amount of cash, more than conservative groups raised.

Here's the PDF file.

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  • Gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson is was on Midday at 11 a.m. today. As I do with all candidates, I'll strip I've stripped out the specific answers regarding specific issues and posted them on the candidate's page under the "issues by audio" section. Hutchinson made his candidacy official this morning. Here's the audio of his speech.

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