Posted on 03/25/2006 1:46:41 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
The campaign for Proposition 82, the Preschool for All Act, raised $2 million between Jan. 1 and March 17, according to campaign-finance records released this week.
That's 10 times as much as the $196,000 raised by the ``No on 82'' campaign. The no campaign has $81,000 in remaining cash on hand; the pro-82 campaign, $1.6 million.
Rob Reiner, who at nearly $657,000 is the campaign's biggest donor, has also become the focal point for its opposition. Much of the controversy surrounds conflict-of-interest charges stemming from Reiner's role as chair of a state commission, First 5 California, that aired ads touting the benefits of preschool just as signatures for the initiative were being gathered.
``There's no question that Reiner and his allies have a significant financial advantage,'' said Dan Shnur, a Republican political consultant who said the odds are still in favor of the initiative's passage. ``But given the controversy around Reiner and First 5, they might need to build a greater war chest.''
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From November to January, the state commission spent $23 million on television and radio ads promoting the value of preschool, while Reiner's Preschool for All campaign was collecting signatures to qualify for the ballot. Democratic and Republican lawmakers ordered an audit of the First 5 Commission in early March, but the audit may not be completed until after the June 6 election.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Top Donors to the campaign for Proposition 82
Name City Amount Robert Reiner Beverly Hills $656,931 Carl Reiner Beverly Hills $500,000 Pat A. Stryker Fort Collins, Colo. $500,000 California State Council of Service Employees Issues Committee Sacramento $300,000 California Teachers Association Issues PAC Burlingame $300,000Top Donors against Proposition 82
Name City Amount Baron Real Estate Inc. Redondo Beach $100,000 Charles T. Munger Los Angeles $35,000 California Business Roundtable Issues PAC Mill Valley $25,000 Californians to Stop Higher Taxes Mill Valley $10,015 Donaghy Sales Fresno $10,000
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14185189.htm
Name City Amount
California taxpayers $23,000,000
Robert Reiner Beverly Hills $656,931
Carl Reiner Beverly Hills $500,000
Pat A. Stryker Fort Collins, Colo. $500,000
California State Council of Service Employees Issues Committee Sacramento $300,000
California Teachers Association Issues PAC Burlingame $300,000
Have a kid in preschool, a good one at that. I am afraid it is more of a daycare. It is my responsibility. How does that guy make money anymore?
Would you trust your child to that sleeze bag....? ..../sarcasm
I've seen two great ideas posted on blogs, one here at FR.
1) Take snapshots of the various newspaper headlines about Reiner and use them in campaign ads.
("Do you want to give these people any more taxpayer money"?)
2) Demand that the First5 folks give equal funding to the Beat Meathead folks
to correct the impact of Meathead's propaganda. $23 million could help, huh?
(Not a likely outcome, but certainly the fair thing to do)
Most of the donors to these intiatives (on the pro-side) get a direct return on their investment by being on the receiving end of taxpayer dollars when the initiatives pass. By the time people understand that they were shafted by misleading ballot language, it is years later, if ever. The so-called "venture capitalists" who seem to be lining up and funding every bond initiative have found a new pot-of-gold, all funded by uninformed taxpayers.
Why is Colorado money coming here?
Why is Colorado money coming here?
Michigan money.
What do you mean? She's from Colorado. I know this sounds stupid, but why is that allowed?
There is some connection between Homer and California. I met Homer in the 1950's at the Orange County Hospital. He had donated two of his rotating beds to the facility and supplied the money to remodel the unit to accommodate the beds. My aunt, one of the first patients to use a Stryker Bed in Orange County, suffering from what was latter determined to be encephalitis, lived, semi-comatose, in one of the beds for 11 months without appreciable incidents of bed sores.
The contraption was huge and frightening but as a child I was fascinated to watch it rotate my aunt with Homer at the controls. I could never understand why Aunt Ruby simply didn't slide out the bottom of the mattress sandwich as the bed rotated through the vertical.
More time in schools that don't teach is just involuntary servitude, imho.
It was New York money that seeded Arnold's recall campaign. It paid off too, because when it came to underwrite Arnold's $15B bond package, New York brokerage houses got the job, costing California a cool $250 million in lost tax revenue compared to underwriting by California brokerage houses.
That's our grovelnator, who knew how to stay bought before his first election. IMO he belongs in jail.
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