Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 13:32:27 -0600
From: CENDO RICHARD <cendo@spot.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Colorado Attorney General won't explain her ties to Cameron



[Denver Post, Sunday, Oct. 2, letters to the editor]
[reprinted with author's permission]

As reported by the Associated Press, Attorney General Gail Norton paid the
controversial psychologist Paul Cameron state funds for expert testimony in
the Amendment 2 trial -- but then neither used him as a witness nor filed any
affidavit or deposition from him.

Norton's office first told OutFront magazine, in writing, that Norton paid
Cameron $10,125.  Then Norton told the AP she didn't know how much she paid
Cameron.  Then Equality Colorado announced that documents it obtained show
that Norton paid Cameron at least $15,649.  Now, an extensive article in the
New Republic claims that Cameron fabricates most of his "data" on gay men and
lesbians.

The attorney general has yet to answer:

-- How much state money she paid Paul Cameron,

-- Why she didn't use him or his affidavit in court

-- Why she paid at least $15,000 in expert witness fees to a man who did not
testify, who has been expelled from the American Psychological Association
for fudging data, and who has been accused of fraud by federal judge Jerry
Buchmeyer of Dallas.

Richard Cendo
Denver