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[UPDATE: Both Republican Burgmeier and Democratic Hanson supported sending marriage equality to a public vote. Other than each candidate's part affiliation, it is unclear why NOM supported Burgmeier over Hanson.]

Remember NOM’s big push to get Conservative Stephen Burgmeier elected to Iowa’s House in a special election? So that they could show how Iowa’s legalization of same-sex marriage was really just a fluke? Yeah, well, it didn’t work. Burgmeier lost. Just barely. But he lost:

Democratic candidate Curt Hanson[on the right], a retired schoolteacher, won against GOP candidate and Jefferson County Supervisor Stephen Burgmeier by 3,932 to 3,825 votes, according to unofficial tallies.

. . . Iowa Republicans have lost seats in the state House and Senate for four elections in a row, giving Democrats a majority in both chambers.

In related news, Iowa’s largest LGBT organization One Iowa and the progressive religious group the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa have filed an official complaint against NOM with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board:

NOM has complete disregard of Iowa law as they engage in express advocacy in our state, while refusing to release the identity of their donors, as is legally required in Iowa law. NOM has a history of funneling secret money throughout the country to engage in similar activity.

This complaint follows Charlie Smithson’s, executive director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, letter to NOM Executive Director Brian Brown. In he, Smithson warned Brown that if NOM continues to engage in express advocacy in Iowa, it would have to form a PAC and disclose its donors.