The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) “has tapped tea party attorney Cleta Mitchell as the organization’s Minnesota lobbyist during the state’s contentious 2012 battle over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,” the Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey reported yesterday. Mitchell — a partner at the D.C. firm Foley & Lardner LLP and a veteran of past campaigns against marriage equality — specializes in “helping candidates and groups exploit loopholes” in existing campaign finance laws and will lead the NOM’s effort in challenging disclosure rules surrounding ballot initiatives.
However, she’ll be leading the effort to undermine equality for gays and lesbians while working for a firm that prides itself on “commitment to diversity.” Foley & Lardner LLP devotes multiple pages of its website to highlighting its acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender attorneys and says it is “fully committed to an environment that attracts and sustains diversity of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion.” Below is a snapshot of just one of its diversity pages:
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