Posted on 08/20/2004 9:48:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
In a hotly worded letter to Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, a top Republican lawmaker is urging the creation of a bipartisan committee to investigate whether Kevin Shelley knowingly funneled taxpayer money into his successful 2002 campaign for California secretary of state.
Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy urged Nuñez, of Los Angeles, to immediately set up a committee "to take swift and effective action to determine the facts in this issue."
He compared the need to probe the unfolding debacle with the Legislature's investigation of former Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, which led to his resignation in 2000.
The FBI is already investigating whether a San Francisco nonprofit group paid $125,000 of a $500,000 state grant to three individuals and two companies that made closely timed donations of nearly identical amounts to the campaign of Shelley, a Democrat.
As reported in The Chronicle earlier this month, Shelley himself had arranged for the tax-financed grant from the state Department of Parks and Recreation to go to the nonprofit group, the San Francisco Neighbors Resource Center, when he was Assembly majority leader.
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