Wealthy GOP donor jumps into Beth Gaines' Assembly race

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 5/16/12 | Jim Sanders

[SmithL]

A political advocacy group funded largely by wealthy Stanford physicist Charles T. Munger Jr. has poured $83,000 this week into an independent push to re-elect Republican Assemblywoman Beth Gaines.

Gaines, of Rocklin, is running against attorney and fellow Republican Andy Pugno in the 6th Assembly District, a newly drawn district based in Placer County but extending into Sacramento and El Dorado counties. Democrat Reginald Bronner of Lincoln rounds out the field.

A radio advertisement and campaign literature supporting Gaines was funded by Spirit of Democracy, whose coffers consist of $727,000 from Munger and $150,000 from the California Dental Association, records show.

. . . Munger is taking aim at Pugno, the author of and chief counsel for Proposition 8, the initiative passed by voters in 2008 to limit marriage to a man and woman.

[SmithL]

These RINOs aren't campaigning for Gaines as much as they're campaigning against Andy Pugno.

[Randy Larsen]

I won’t get to vote for any of them because I’m next door with Tom McClintock.

I never cared much for Beth Gaines husband Ted, and Beth is any better. I sure hope you folks can do better than Beth Gaines.

[Randy Larsen]

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