Posted on 09/01/2014 10:36:58 AM PDT by aimhigh
The amount of money political candidates in the state of California can collect for campaigns is tightly governed, but for legal defense funds, donors are permitted to donate much more, according to KPCC.
In March, the state senate, voted to suspend three members who were charged or who were convicted of felonies. The legal bills for senators Ron Calderon and Rod Wright are being paid for by a mix of politicians, political action committees and even corporations. Senator Leland Yee has a committee to college legal defense donations working for him as well.
Wright has a sentencing hearing scheduled for Wednesday on charges of perjury and voting fraud that center around him living outside of his district. His legal defense fund has accumulated $150,000. The majority of the money came from industries regulated by the state, such as casinos, insurance, energy, teachers, telecommunications and metals.
PG&E was one of the biggest donors to the legal funds of the suspended senators. In August and December of 2013, Wright’s fund received donations of $10,000. Wright was indicted in 2010 and convicted in January of this year. Calderon’s legal fund received $7,500 from PG&E in July and December of 2013.
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I’m not going to track the site down now but in the past I was amazed at how much donor money to Michigan democrats came from California. I’m assuming the same is true of Democrats all across the country.
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