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Both sides still paying Prop 11 debts

Amid other campaign finance news emerging today (Jerry Brown has scads of cash with which to run for governor in 2010! Jack O’Connell doesn’t!), it seems both sides are still paying down their bills from the battle over Proposition 11, the redistricting reform ballot measure approved by 51 percent of voters in November.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Dream Team laid a cool quarter million dollars on the Yes on 11 campaign’s account and Stanford University physicist Charles Munger Jr. — son of Berkshire Hathaway billionaire Charles T. Munger — gave $117,000 yesterday; earlier this month, former laundry service magnate William Bloomfield Jr. of Manhattan Beach anted up $33,000 on Jan. 15, and Cypress Land Company president Brian Harvey of Los Angeles gave $50,000 on Jan. 12.

Meanwhile, the Voter Education and Research Fund – a independent committee backed by former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland – put $38,000 into the No on 11 campaign’s coffers Tuesday, atop $12,500 it had chipped in back on Jan. 9. Nice to see Perata and his friends at VERF didn’t skip out on the bills entirely, given Perata moving $1.9 million in November and December from his Leadership California committee – which ostensibly had been raising money to help combat Proposition 11 – into his own legal defense fund for use in fending off a years-long federal corruption probe.

Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009
Under: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don Perata, Election 2008, Jack O'Connell, Jerry Brown, Propositions | No Comments »

Record percentage of voters choose mail in June

Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2008
Under: 2008 June primary, Election 2008, Election reform | 2 Comments »

Contra Costa GOP hosts ‘pundit night’ on July 15

Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Under: 2008 November election, 2008 presidential election, Contra Costa County, Election 2008, Republican politics, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Wanna a limo ride to the polls?

Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Under: 2008 June primary, Contra Costa County, Contra Costa politics, Election 2008 | 15 Comments »

Nunn responds to mailer criticisms

Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Under: 2008 June primary, Contra Costa County, Contra Costa politics, Election 2008 | 13 Comments »

False and misleading mailer targets Glover

Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Under: 2008 June primary, Contra Costa County, Contra Costa politics, Election 2008 | No Comments »

McNerney to visit Mexico-California border

Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008
Under: Congress, Election 2008, congressional district 11 | No Comments »

Will trade beard for cash

Posted on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Under: Election 2008 | 3 Comments »

Bob Dole endorses Assembly candidate Lloyd

Posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Under: Election 2008 | No Comments »

Alameda County registrar messes up

Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Under: Election 2008 | No Comments »