November 15, 2010, 12:05 AM
Most political ads running on YouTube, sent via e-mail or otherwise distributed on the Internet must now disclose their funding sources in much the same way as traditional print and television ads, according to new rules approved Friday by the Fair Political Practices Commission. The FPPC has...
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November 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
State Sen. Leland Yee took a major step yesterday toward running for mayor of San Francisco, opening an exploratory committee that will allow him to raise money for his bid – but the way he has been spending his campaign cash this year, it's probably fair to assume he's been thinking...
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November 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
The Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United ruling earlier this year helped major corporations and other interest groups spend more than $5 million on California's Senate race without disclosing their contributors, according to independent spending reports analyzed by the Center for...
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November 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
Meg Whitman didn’t just outspend Jerry Brown in her losing campaign for governor. The billionaire Republican outspent the entire field of 15 other candidates for statewide office combined, Democrats as well as Republicans. The secretary of state’s totals don’t cover...
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November 5, 2010, 12:05 AM
Statewide candidates and ballot measures who ended up on the wrong side of Tuesday's election spent nearly a quarter billion dollars on their failed election bids, including at least $15 million on campaign consultants and more than $120 million on ad spending, state and federal campaign...
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November 4, 2010, 12:05 AM
Amid growing criticism and government scrutiny of for-profit colleges, Democrat Jerry Brown and other California candidates this year reaped a healthy chunk of campaign cash from education giant Apollo Group and its wealthy chairman. The Arizona-based parent company of the University of...
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November 2, 2010, 12:05 AM
There were the fundraisers at the U.S. Grant Hotel in San Diego (cost to stage: $71,000), the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills ($42,900), the Bernardus Lodge & Winery in Carmel Valley ($20,564), and the Princeton and Harvard clubs in New York City ($12,300 combined). Then there were the...
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November 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
Over the last two weeks, more than two dozen major campaign donors to Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have been scrambling to hedge their bets. At least 14 donors who once backed Whitman have donated $5,000 or more to Brown's campaign since Oct. 14, perhaps owing to her recent decline in the...
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October 29, 2010, 12:05 AM
When Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina didn’t show up at a Sarah Palin rally in Anaheim, she wasn’t just avoiding the darling of the Tea Party Movement. Fiorina also was ducking a political donor. On Aug. 5, nearly two months before Fiorina failed to appear at Palin...
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October 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
Groups supporting Proposition 19 have hauled in approximately $2 million in October even as polls find shriveling popular support for the marijuana-legalization initiative. Those dollars are funding the first television ad promoting the ballot measure, which will air throughout this final week...
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October 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
Get ready to hear a lot more from Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in the next few days. After her most recent fundraising reports last week showed her running about $1 million behind Boxer in total cash on hand for the final push toward election day, Fiorina quickly loaned her...
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October 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Remember that county party money-shuffling game we told you about earlier this year? It's that time again. On Monday, Democratic central committees in Kern and Del Norte took in $25,000 each from the SEIU Local 1000, the organization best known for representing more than 90,000 state...
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October 7, 2010, 12:04 AM
The day after Meg Whitman’s former housekeeper went public, the state Democratic Party pumped $1.6 million into Jerry Brown’s campaign for governor. The big check from California Democrats on Sept. 30 was one of a flurry of donations that Brown obtained after his Republican...
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October 1, 2010, 11:49 AM
Updated: Gloria Allred, the attorney at the center of this week's spectacle over Meg Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper, spent time working for Jerry Brown's gubernatorial campaign in the mid-1970s, according to a decades-old article in an American Bar Association magazine. ...
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September 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
An interest group logs a letter with a legislator in support of a bill. A day before the vote, the same group donates a few thousand bucks to the lawmaker who carries it, then maybe a few other key committee members for good measure. All the lawmakers vote yes. The bill passes. Seems a little...
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