With the clock ticking for initiatives to qualify for the November ballot and the June primary less than three months away, big donors are dipping into their piggy banks to back their top political causes.
As we reported yesterday, a campaign to suspend AB 32 reported nearly $1 million in funding, including $500,000 from Texas-based oil company Valero. After the jump, find a roundup of some of the other major contributions reported to the Secretary of State this week.
• The California Republican Party reported a slew of big checks, including cumulative contributions of $500,000 from former Univision CEO Jerry Perenchio, $50,000 from Wal-Mart and $47,500 from Pacific Gas & Electric.
• The California Teachers Association dropped another $500,000 into its proposed measure to repeal corporate tax benefits approved by the Legislature.
• The coalition opposing the $11 billion water bond set for the November ballot got a $250,000 boost from its main sponsor, Food and Water Watch, a consumer-rights group based in Washington.
• The campaign backing the June ballot measure to create an "open primary" system reported $250,000 from a committee sponsored by the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems.
• The campaign to qualify a ballot initiative that would require a two-thirds legislative vote to enact new fees reported $75,000 from its main backer, the California Chamber of Commerce's California Business Political Action Committee.
• Los Angeles County Federation of Labor chipped another $163,000 to a campaign to alter legislative term limits to let lawmakers serve 12 years in one house instead of the current 14 years split between the two houses.
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