Not me, but public radio's Austin Jenkins. His story about "wealthy, gay political donors who target state-level races" airs on All Things Considered this afternoon. It is an expansion of something he wrote in May for both Crosscut and for a piece on local public radio that I found of note at the time.

In today's piece Jenkins has more on the local connections to the effort from Colorado software mogul Tim Gill. This, from the text version of the story on NPR's site (where you can also listen to an archived version of the story):

Last year, they funneled millions of dollars into dozens of carefully selected campaigns. Their goal: to elect gay-friendly governors and state lawmakers.

Freshman Washington state Rep. Deb Eddy, a Democrat from Seattle's Eastside, remembers the phone call she received last summer from a political consultant on the East Coast. "Her purpose was simply to let me know that I would be receiving checks from out-of-state and that these were all on the up-and-up," Eddy says.

As Eddy remembers it, the caller told her the money was coming from a group of gay and gay-friendly donors who wanted to help influence state legislative races. Soon the checks started arriving — seven in all.

"It was a dead giveaway because all of them were for $675, which was the limit from the preceding election," Eddy says. "So they had information about Washington's limitation on contributions to campaigns that was a year old."

Eddy says some of the checks came with a note attached: "[It] said that I had been brought to their attention by Tim Gill, which was the first time I'd heard the name. And then he, too, sent a check."