Campaign finance & Proposition 90 & Eminent domain 06 Nov 2006 09:46 am
Last-minute Proposition 90 contributions
Lots of last-minute money has been pouring into the No on 90 campaign. According to an article in today’s Sacramento Bee, a joint labor-management committee of the State Building and Construction Trades Council has given $1 million to No on 90.
An attorney for the group is quoted as saying, “Because the threat to infrastructure development is so big from Prop 90, the group decided this was the one place they wanted to spend money. This fund has never contributed to a campaign before. Nothing like this has ever come along.”
Most of the Yes on 90 money in the last month has continued to come from committees affiliated with real-estate developer Howard Rich, as well as from small individual contributions.