Posted on 05/01/2007 10:43:18 AM PDT by SmithL
California's top law officer -- Attorney General Jerry Brown -- has raised $86,500 since January to fight an election-year lawsuit accusing him of failing to qualify for the statewide office he now holds.
According to state disclosure forms filed Monday, Brown tapped three wealthy business executives -- including the president of Whole Foods -- who gave a combined $45,000 to Brown's Public Integrity Legal Defense Fund. The remaining cash was raised from various interest groups such as dentists, correctional officers and the Indian tribe that owns Thunder Valley Casino near Lincoln.
Brown, a Democrat, is the latest politician to open a legal defense fund, which allows him to exceed campaign contribution limits without having to officially disclose the nature of his legal trouble.
Brown's spokesman, Gareth Lacy, said all contributions to the fund were used to defend Brown against "an election-year political trick" in which the Republican Party tried to have Brown declared ineligible to run for office.
Still, campaign watchdogs worry that loose rules on these accounts could allow candidates and elected officials to solicit and take unlimited amounts of money from donors who otherwise would be restricted by campaign contribution limits.
"Why are they giving to him? Because he's the top cop," said Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles.
Stern, who wrote the Political Reform Act while working for Brown in the 1970s, said Brown should have accepted voluntary limits. "If he weren't a public official, he wouldn't be receiving the money," Stern said.
Republican Party officials had claimed that Brown did not meet the qualification that an attorney general be an "uninterrupted, active member" of the State Bar for the five years before the primary election. Brown was admitted to the bar in 1965. But he went on "inactive" status...
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How much did Savage (Wiener) donate?
Just for this, I'm boycotting the Whole Foods store near the uiversity I attend: Florida Atlantic.
The joint is heavily hinged towards New Age, upper- crem-de-la-creme socialites anyway.
Should-a, would-a, could-a. Maybe Stern can get a solemn pledge from Jerry to behave differently the next time he gets sued.
Some hot girls tend to roam my whole foods, although the place is a tad overpriced.
IOW, do they support the 2nd Amendment? Total Ban on homosexual marriage? ANWR opening? Yadda-yadda-yadda....
case-in-point, Marry a pretty lady for what she believes & you'll get a "Whole" lot more.
Of course, this is a stupid requirement. That being said, we know the dems would sue if a GOP candidate did not have the right qualifications.
Perhaps that degenerate fraud Michael Weiner can get his crappy little Paul Revere Society to cough some dough for his favorite politician?
Ya true, but there still fun to look at.
For me, boycotting Whole Foods is easy. I don’t eat granola, sprouts and organic tofu.
Other places I boycott: Gay bath houses, DNC fundraisers, Women’s Alternative Bookstores, Candle and aromatherepy stores, New age boutiques...
“Brown’s spokesman, Gareth Lacy, said all contributions to the fund were used to defend Brown against “an election-year political trick” in which the Republican Party tried to have Brown declared ineligible to run for office. “
It wasn’t a trick. Brown isn’t elegible to be Attorney General, yet there he is. And to all you Michael Savage fans, your hero gave to his campaign.
Did you see this ?
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