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During his year-long struggle to stop same-sex marriage from becoming law in the District, Bishop Harry Jackson has loudly claimed to speak on behalf of the many District residents he says oppose marriage equality. But as campaign finance documents show, none of those residents seem terribly invested in his cause.

GLAA Forum did some digging into the recent campaign finance filings of three organizations created by Jackson, and found that of the $199,530 they raised all together, basically none of it came from District residents. In fact, the amounts raised between the three groups — Stand for Marriage DC, Stand for Marriage DC Referendum and Stand for Marriage DC Initiative — primarily came from Jackson’s own Maryland-based non-profit organization (over $100,000), the Colorado-based organization Focus on the Family, the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage and the D.C.-based Family Research Council.

Even though the Stand4MarriageDC web site asks for contributions ranging from $25 to $5,000, the only “D.C. resident” to give any money was Jackson — he gave $100 — and it’s still open to debate how much time he spends residing in the city. Jackson, who is pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md. and owns two homes in Montgomery County, only “moved” to D.C. last April, and even then there were questions as to whether he really lived in the city.