Bill Lockyer gave $1.7 million to wife's campaign

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/4/12 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnist

[SmithL]

To understand why state Treasurer Bill Lockyer is considered such a heavyweight in East Bay politics, look no further than the $1.7 million he pumped into his wife's 2010 campaign for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

In a spending spree that shattered all records for the board, Nadia Lockyer - now embroiled in a sex and substance-abuse scandal - spent more than 40 times what her predecessor, Gail Steele, spent in any single campaign for the south county seat in nearly two decades in office.

The $1.7 million from Bill Lockyer's campaign fund obliterated any chance his wife's election rival - former Assemblywoman (and onetime Bill Lockyer gal pal) Liz Figueroa - had of competing.

And that's not counting the money he spread around to help Nadia indirectly - like the $75,000 he gave to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, which sent out slate mailers endorsing his wife.

Other recipients of Lockyer's largesse included Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, whose campaign got $5,000. She had already helped Nadia Lockyer land a job as head of an anti-domestic-violence group overseen by the D.A.'s office.

Curiously enough, in addition to running up big bills on consultants, pollsters and mailers, Nadia's supervisor campaign also spent $12,730 on babysitting services for the couple's young son.

[SmithL]

For background on this story, click on keyword: Lockyer.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I’m not a Californian, but this ought to be about it for Lockyear, right?

But then again, I’m not a Californian. And glad.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I’m not a Californian, but this ought to be about it for Lockyer, right?

But then again, I’m not a Californian. And glad.

[dsc]

“The $1.7 million from Bill Lockyer’s campaign fund obliterated any chance...Liz Figueroa - had of competing.”

If that is true, something is fundamentally wrong somewhere. Could Satan himself be elected president if he spent enough? Where is the judgment of the voter?

[packrat35]

Could Satan himself be elected president if he spent enough? Where is the judgment of the voter?

Uh hello...ever hear of obama, our current President???

[NormsRevenge]

this ought to be about it for Lockyear, right?

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lol.. he’s still got a shot at a California Supreme Court Justice slot.. LULAC-wifey or not.

[Liz]

Lockyer donated $1.1 million to his wife's campaign, and made substantial other payouts which allowed Nadia to outspend her opponents.

Lockyer bankrolled his wife’s campaign for county supervisor with $1.5 million from his own campaign coffers, a practice political watchdogs haves tried to end. “It’s a priority of ours that we can see and track where all our money’s going,” Common Cause’s Phillip Ung said. “I can’t point to another instance where that amount of money has been used in a local race,” Ung said.

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WHERE DID MR L GET THE MONEY TO BACK THE WIFE? Somebody ought to check the bonding issues his office organizes. Bonding means B-I-G debt for taxpayers and eternal fees for bonding agrnts. Does Bill get a cut of the bonding fees? Better check those books.

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REFERENCE

Here's some popular campaign funding frauds:

* Instructing a campaign volunteer to forge the handwriting of campaign donors on donor contribution forms required by the Campaign Finance Board.

* Offering to reimburse an individual for a donation to the campaign.

* Instructing campaign volunteers, and others, not to accept consecutively numbered money orders as donations to evade detection about shady donations.

* Discussing ways to conceal information about bundlers.

* Working closely with bundlers on fund- raising events in which donors were illegally reimbursed for their contributions.

* Impeding investigations by failing to produce subpoenaed records in an apparent attempt to evade detection.

[Liz]

Lockyer's bizarro explanation for his wife's being in the sack in a motel room with another man......he and his wife argued so she went to the motel to comfort her suicidal ex-boyfriend (with a roll in the hay)....the guy has a long history of involvement with the criminal justice system. Lockyer said, "her only fault is occasionally having one too many drinks." (sob)

One of Lockyer's donors weighs in.

"Duh--- that's what most married woman dood after an argument."

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Tracked to rehab, Mrs Lockyer was asked about her marital situation, "We have very little thrust between us."

"Don't you mean trust?" asked a reporter.

" No I mean thrust--my husband is 70 years old--you figure it out," said Nadia.

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Three on a match:

Nadia.

The sex machine.

The cuckold --- ever do a paternity test on that kid, Bill?