PG&E Fleeced for $175,000 by L.A. Pols -- What Was Darbee Trying To Do With All That Money?

By the jaundiced standards of California's initiative politics in 2010, it barely deserved mention. But there it was, in a small blog post this week in the Los Angeles Times:
When the Los Angeles County Democratic Party deposited a $175,000 check from PG&E earlier this month, quite a few in the political world took notice -- especially considering the fact that the money arrived only weeks before the county party was set to stake out its position on a June ballot measure, Proposition 16, put on the ballot by the utility company.
But every once in a while, money doesn’t prevail in politics. On Saturday, the county party’s ballot measure committee voted unanimously to oppose the PG&E-backed measure, said Chairman Eric Bauman.

by John Geesman
4.15.10

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