The Media Research Center, an organization whose stated mission is to “bring balance and responsibility to the news media,” is recruiting conservative supporters with deep pockets.

After pumping more than a half million dollars into overturning gay marriage in California, Jim Dobson’s Focus on the Family has fallen on hard economic times.

A conservative religious family in western Michigan, whose vast fortunes derive from auto parts and government security contracts, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ban gay marriage in California.