California politics & Campaign finance & Controller 01 Nov 2006 10:46 pm
Controller’s race continues to attract cash
The race for controller, normally not what would be called a contentious struggle in California politics, continues to be one of the big campaign cash magnets this year.
Team 2006 (an independent expenditure committee formed by a group of casino-owning Southern California Native American tribes) and tax-preparation software firm Intuit have given over $2 million to Republican Tony Strickland.
The Ventura County Star and the San Francisco Chronicle report that Democratic candidate John Chiang has gotten a lot of late cash, with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians Native American Rights Fund giving almost $337,000 for radio ads in support of Chiang, and $1.9 million coming to his campaign coffers from Working California, a coalition of labor unions and Asian-American business groups.