Posted on 06/24/2011 2:36:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Through a nonprofit, private donors are expected to cover the $3,000-a-month rent, along with utilities and other expenses, on Gov. Jerry Brown's loft in Sacramento.
Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown will look to a group of private donors — presently refusing to reveal their identities — to pay his rent at the luxury loft in downtown Sacramento where Brown and his wife live while in town.
Donors are contributing to a nonprofit formed specifically to cover the costs of Brown's $3,000-a-month, 1,450-square-foot apartment.
In the past, the practice of having private donors pay for the governor's residence has alarmed ethics watchdogs. Under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, those who funded his Sacramento hotel penthouse had business before the state. Critics of the practice say the contributions afford those interests undue access and influence.
California is one of only a handful of states that does not provide an official governor's residence.
Brown's office referred questions to George Kieffer, who is president of the nonprofit, known as the Governor's Residence Foundation.
Kieffer said his group would release the names of donors and the amount they have contributed in January 2012. He said the group was raising money to pay Brown's rent, as well as his utility bills.
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All three have long ties to Brown. Kieffer served as general counsel to Brown's 1976 presidential campaign. Protopappas served as treasurer when Brown ran for mayor of Oakland. Wasserman has served as Brown's attorney.
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Jerry Brown....rent boy. Sounds about right to me.
taxes are due on that gift...right?
This is an ethical conflict of course. It is also taxable income received due his being in office.
Democrats want a tax hike. They must begin by taxing all income, not just the upper 40 percent. The protected class and the entitled class should begin paying down the deficit that has been created by their benefits. It’s only fair.
Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.
Fixed that for you.
California is one of only a handful of states that does not provide an official governor’s residence
CA does not have an official residence because Jerry Brown sold it the last time he was Governor. He was a “hippie” who disdained living in the house that Ronald Reagan’s friends built for him and which was donated to the state as an official residence. Jerry Brown had spent (at least) his teen years in the historic, Victorian era Governor’s mansion when his own father was Governor (Edmund G. “Pat” Brown).
The historic mansion (which is now a museum) was declared a fire trap by the State Fire Marshall before the Reagans moved in. Nancy was afraid to stay there with her children. (Ronnie was about 8 or 9) So, a group called Friends of Reagan bought a lot and built the house for them which the Reagans used for the 8 years he was governor. At the end of his term, he and his supporters donated the official residence to the state. Brown sold it and declared that he’d park his sleeping bag at Linda Ronstadt’s.
He’s a real piece of work. You’d think Californians would be sick of the Browns. But the political stupidity of the populace is why I don’t live there anymore.
That's too rich.
He's still a free-loading hippie.
Doesn’t sound right at all.
That's OK. The Governor doesn't need a residence because he/she will always be able to find one or more very wealthy individuals to pay for a nice place for him/her to live.
That's just logic, right?
Californians are so smart.
“nonprofit”?
assisting the governors and their familes so they won’t be homeless... what a charitable cause!
They get a salary, don’t they? And Ahnold certainly could have afforded anything on his own. This is ridiculous.
So, he has lobbyists paying his rent?
Why can’t he pay his own rent? Or move into the Gov mansion?
I could have sworn there was a Gov mansion... oh well. Still not right to have others pay for the governor rent.
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