Former Assembly Speaker and U.S. House hopeful Karen Bass has chipped another $30,000 into an effort to eliminate the Citizens Redistricting Commission established under Proposition 11.
Bass, who cut the contribution check from her Strengthening California Through Leadership ballot issues account, previously gave $20,000 to the Financial Accountability in Redistricting Act, which would give the responsibility of redrawing state legislative and Board of Equalization district lines back to the Legislature.
The campaign also reported a $50,000 donation from an account run by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and $5,000 from Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson's campaign coffers.
More than a dozen current House Democrats have reported giving more than $140,000 to the effort last month.
Members' moves to bankroll the measure to repeal the commission come as one of the major donors for Proposition 11 pours his own cash into a measure that would expand the citizen panel's responsibilities to include redrawing congressional districts.
Also from the campaign cash file:
• The California Teachers Association funnelled another $500,000 into a measure it is sponsoring that would repeal corporate tax benefits approved in last year's budget deal. This latest contribution brings the CTA's total investment in the proposed initiative to more than $1.2 million.
• The campaign committee for a proposed initiatve to ban the Legislature from borrowing cash from local transit and government funds to balance the budget reported $195,000 from the League of California Cities.
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