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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 »

Should Election Day be a holiday?

Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Under: Election reform, Propositions | 3 Comments »

California Democratic Party takes initiative positions

Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Under: 2008 presidential election, Democratic politics, Propositions, State politics | No Comments »

10th ballot measure headed for November ballot

Posted on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Under: 2008 November election, Propositions | No Comments »

Civil rights groups protest governor’s redistricting plan

Posted on Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Under: Election reform, Propositions | No Comments »

Governor stumps for signatures … again

Posted on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Under: California Legislature, Election reform, Propositions | No Comments »

IGS offers Feb. 5 proposition guide

Posted on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Under: 2008 presidential primary, Propositions | 1 Comment »