FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 22, 2026
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New filing shows New York, California, and D.C. donors bankrolling the campaign for Proposition 1
BOISE, Idaho — A campaign finance filing submitted to the Idaho Secretary of State yesterday reveals that a wave of out-of-state money is fueling the push behind Idahoans United for Women and Families, the group campaigning to allow abortion on demand into the seventh or eighth month in Idaho.
According to a timed contribution report filed September 21, 2026, the committee received more than $1.7 million in contributions in that report alone. Of that, at least $1.25 million came from liberal mega donors with addresses far outside Idaho’s borders:
- Michael R. Bloomberg (New York, NY) — $250,000
- Government That Works PAC (Washington, D.C.) — $650,000
- Gwendolyn Sontheim (Minnetonka, MN) — $250,000
- PGSR Trust (San Francisco, CA) — $100,000
- Blair Hull (Chicago, IL) — $50,000
“Idaho voters don’t need Michael Bloomberg or a D.C. PAC hand-picking our laws for us,” Dee Sarton, spokesperson for Stop Prop 1, said. “When New York billionaires and Washington political committees are writing six-figure checks to change Idaho’s abortion laws, that’s not a grassroots movement — that’s an attempt to buy an outcome our own communities never asked for.”
“Idahoans should ask themselves why people who live thousands of miles away, in places with some of the most permissive abortion laws in the country, are spending this kind of money here,” Dee Sarton added. “This is what it looks like when outside interests try to import California and New York policy into our state. The Idaho I know will see right through this.”
Stop Prop 1 is urging Idaho voters to look closely at who is funding the “Vote Yes” campaign and to reject a measure that would make Idaho’s laws in line with California and New York.
About the Stop Prop 1 Campaign
Too Extreme for Idaho PAC is the organization behind Stop Prop 1, the campaign opposing Proposition 1 on Idaho’s November ballot. For more information or to join the campaign, visit: www.StopProp1.org.
Paid for by Too Extreme for Idaho PAC
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