[staytrue]

Three of First 5's political consultants, who received $200,000 without a contract, later transferred to the Proposition 82 campaign.

This is called money laundering. You pay consultant's exorbiant salaries (via the taxpayers), then the consultant can afford to work "for free" for the unions proposition campaign, or if the consulant fees are really big enough, the consultant can "donate" to the proposition campaign directly.

[monkeyshine]

If a Kentucky governor did that he'd be facing indictment. But a hollywood activist? Arnold should weigh in on this but hollywood has its own cabal - Arnie badmouthing Robbie would make The Oscars and uncomfortable evening and we wouldn't want that now would we?