Sen. Darrell Steinberg has emerged as the biggest financial backer –- among lawmakers –- of the term-limits measure on the February ballot.
Steinberg, a Sacramento Democrat, contributed $150,000 Monday to support Proposition 93, which would allow lawmakers to serve 12 years in a single house, rather than six years in the Assembly and eight in the Senate. The measure would also extend the stay of sitting senators, including Steinberg, allowing them to run for a third four-year term.
The next largest donors to the term-limits measure, among lawmakers, are Assemblymembers Ted Lieu and Karen Bass, Democrats who gave $50,000 each.
Here's some other recent campaign cash activity:
• The push to place a measure on next June's ballot that would change how California counts its electoral votes has received an infusion of more than $300,000, including another $41,000 from GOP Rep. Darrell Issa. That brings the total he's donated to just above $100,000. Other newly reported donors include Elliott Broidy ($35,000), Wayne Hughes ($50,000), Howard Leach ($45,000), Dean Forman ($25,000), Richard L. Sharp ($50,000), Thomas Larkin ($25,000) and Mark Stern ($45,000).
• Labor is weighing in with an independent expenditure campaign supporting Warren Furutani, who is running for Assembly against fellow Democrat Mike Gipson. So far an independent committee backed by the State Council of Service Employees has spent $54,866.08 supporting Furutani.
• Sen. Carole Migden has injected $40,300 of her own money into her reelection campaign this week.
• The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) gave $500,000 to support Proposition 93, the term-limits measure.
• Opponents of the eminent-domain measure that submitted 1 million signatures for the ballot on Tuesday, filled their own campaign coffers this week, taking in $630,000 -- $300,000 from the State Council of SEIU, $200,000 from the California State Association of Counties and $130,000 from the League of California Cities.
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