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Daily Report: Money and Politics

AG candidate Harris benefiting from Hollywood donors

September 29, 2010, 12:40 AM
In the attorney general’s race, Los Angeles County may be GOP candidate and L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley’s home turf, but it appears Hollywood has fallen for his opponent, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. Campaign records show Harris (who has some star power of... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Study: More money, fewer votes in gubernatorial primaries

September 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
Even as gubernatorial campaign spending has skyrocketed in recent years, fewer and fewer voters have been turning out to the polls in state primary elections, according to a study released late last week by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The study [PDF] concludes that the... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Legislators raise more than $380k in days before session closes

August 31, 2010, 12:04 AM
Sitting members of the California Legislature have raised more than $380,000 during the last five days, as lobbyists and special interest groups scramble to push their bills through the Assembly and Senate before this year's legislative session draws to a close. Before we dig in deeper... + read more
Rupert Murdoch speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2009 in Davos, Switzerland.
Daily Report: Money and Politics

News Corp. regular donor to California politicians

August 25, 2010, 12:05 AM
Though it may have been unique in size, the controversial $1 million campaign contribution made this summer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to the Republican Governors Association should come as no surprise here in the Golden State: The company best known for running the right-leaning Fox News... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Should judges decide cases from their own campaign contributors?

August 17, 2010, 12:05 AM
Fundraising for state Supreme Court campaigns nationwide more than doubled between 2000 and 2009, pitting business groups against trial lawyers and highlighting loopholes in the often murky world of judicial campaign finance, according to a report released yesterday by the nonpartisan Brennan... + read more
Chris Kelly
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Former AG candidate Chris Kelly donates thousands to Dems

August 13, 2010, 12:05 AM
He might be best known to California politicos for dropping $12 million into a failed bid for attorney general, but a study released this week by the Center for Responsive Politics suggests that former Facebook privacy chief Chris Kelly has turned into a prolific donor to a number of Democratic... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Hewlett-Packard funnels more donations to Boxer than former CEO Fiorina

August 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
Hewlett-Packard Co. is the ultimate rationale for Carly Fiorina’s U.S. Senate campaign. The Republican candidate was CEO of Hewlett-Packard for six years. She engineered the mega-merger with Compaq. She managed the “reinvention of the legendary company,” as her campaign... + read more
Valero has gas stations across California, like this one in the San Diego County town of Alpine.
Daily Report: Environment

State's heavy polluters also biggest donors to Prop. 23

August 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
Two of the worst toxic polluters in the state are also the two largest contributors of the campaign for Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would stall the state’s landmark climate legislation. Valero Energy Corporation and Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, two Texas refining... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Pennsylvania Democrats first to return Waters contributions

August 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
At least two Pennsylvania politicians have already returned campaign contributions made by a committee tied to California Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, who will face an ethics trial this fall over questions that she used her power to help a bank with ties to her husband. The politicians,... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Web tool analyzes political connections with one click

August 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
A new tool from the Sunlight Foundation identifies the people and organizations appearing on a Web page and reports back on any hits they produce in one of several government databases. Poligraft lives on your browser toolbar and, in one click, tries to identify the recipients and donors of... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Ad buys, 56 consultants account for bulk of Whitman's spending

August 5, 2010, 12:05 AM
By now, we all know Meg Whitman has spent enough on her gubernatorial campaign to run some small countries – $99 million and counting – while Jerry Brown, playing the pauper, has spent a little more on his entire campaign than Whitman has spent on postage (yes, really). But... + read more
Spotlight: Higher Ed

Contractor with big donations, questioned performance wins community college projects

July 31, 2010, 3:05 PM
The Los Angeles Community College District has awarded a series of multimillion-dollar contracts to a Tarzana-based firm that district officials said needed to be babysat to meet construction standards and was doing an “absolutely awful job.” + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Tribe-backed committee to raise campaign money without limits

July 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
An independent-expenditure group backed by California Native American tribes filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission this week announcing its intent to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money supporting candidates in California congressional races. The group, known as... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Ohio coal company that backed Fiorina also gave to Prop. 23

July 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
Appalachian coal interests pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into political campaigns each election cycle, but hardly any of the money finds its way into California campaigns. In the heartland, Big Coal is a powerful lobby. Some Midwestern states get more than 80 percent of their... + read more
Carly Fiorina's ad attacks Barbara Boxer for being "worried about the weather."
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Global warming doubter, coal industry donate to Fiorina campaign

July 26, 2010, 12:05 AM
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has obtained about $63,000 in donations this year from Appalachian coal-mining interests, much of the money from an outspoken Ohio mine owner who dismisses global warming as “hysterical global goofiness.” In a cluster of transactions... + read more
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