March 26, 2008

Schwarzenegger gives another $250K to redistricting

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political action committee has donated another $250,000 to help qualify a redistricting measure for the November ballot, according to campaign filings released today, bringing his total donations to the cause to $550,000.

Schwarzenegger, who pushed his own redistricting measure in the failed 2005 special election, is the single largest financial backer of this year's measure, which is sponsored by California Common Cause and others.

Not only has the governor donated heavily to the measure, but GOP financiers with close ties to Schwarzenegger have given hundreds of thousands more, including $50,000 from the Irvine Company's Donald Bren and $10,000 from Paul Folino, a longtime Schwarzenegger supporter.

Backers of the measure have raised a total of more than $1.2 million.

Posted by Shane Goldmacher on March 26, 2008 04:40 PM