Mississippi extremist group blows up Comptrollers phone

HARTFORD — A Mississippi-based charity known for its anti-gay boycotts is targeting state Comptroller Kevin Lembo with a deluge of calls and emails from out-of-state locations.

The move follows a letter Lembo sent to the American Family Association noting that Connecticut law prohibits the state employees’ giving program from donating to groups that discriminate. Lembo said he was launching an investigation into the practices of the organization, which has called for boycotts of Target for its transgender restroom policy and Zales jewelers for advertising same-sex wedding bands.

The email and phone campaign began Monday and by Tuesday morning, after an American Family Association broadcast about the action on its radio affiliate, calls have swamped the comptroller’s switchboard, and complaint have filled his email and Facebook page.

“Yesterday, calls were coming in one after another after another,” Lembo said, noting he was also getting two to three emails per second to his inbox, for a total of at least 1,000. “I have three lines in my office, and so they’ve been clogged up the emails as well. They are coming from all over the country and I haven’t seen one from Connecticut yet.”

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