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发帖数: 2053 | 1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localsfo/20101006/ts_yblog_localsfo/brown-leads-in-2010-fundraising-but-whitman-excels-at-spending
By San Jose Mercury News san Jose Mercury News – Wed Oct 6, 5:13 pm ET
Ken McLaughlin and Steven Harmon, Bay Area News Group
Democrat Jerry Brown may be the poor boy in the California governor's race,
but he's out-raised billionaire Republican Meg Whitman by nearly $10 million
this year, according to campaign finance reports submitted Tuesday by the
two campaigns.
Since the first of the year, Brown has taken in $28.9 million from outside
sources, Whitman $19 million.
But then again, there's Meg's pocketbook: The former eBay CEO has personally
donated about six times that amount -- $119 million -- to her gubernatorial
quest, breaking the record for a self-funded campaign. Of that, Whitman
ponied up all but $19 million this year.
Which means spending in the race isn't even close.
Whitman's new expenditure totals for 2010 are breathtaking: $94.6 million on
radio and TV advertising, $11.7 million on campaign consultants, $8.2
million on campaign literature and mailings, $5.7 million on campaign
workers' salaries, $2.3 million on office expenses and $5 million on
Internet expenses.
In the past three months, Whitman's been spending more than $3 million a
week. And since the race began last year, she's spent $140 million.
By contrast, Brown has run his campaign like a New Age commune: So far this
year, he's spent $8.9 million on TV and radio ads, $615,514 on campaign
literature, $163,200 on consultants and $122,350 on office expenses.
Further down the ballot, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is outpacing
Republican incumbent Abel Maldonado in the race for lieutenant governor.
While Maldonado narrowed the gap in the most recent three months, Newsom's
war chest of $1.2 million still dwarfs Maldonado's $456,548.
Things were tighter in the race for attorney general, where Los Angeles
County District Attorney Steve Cooley, a Republican, has raised $3.9 million
this year. That compares with $3.5 million for Democrat Kamala Harris, the
DA in San Francisco.
Incumbent state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, is stomping his long-
shot Republican challenger, Mimi Walters. Though Walters has raised more
money than Lockyer this year, her $314,555 on hand is a fraction of his $7.7
million.
Two other long-shot Republicans, though, are keeping pace with the
Democratic incumbents they're hoping to unseat. Former Stanford football
star Damon Dunn matched Secretary of State Debra Bowen nearly dollar for
dollar in the most recent three-month reporting period, and his
approximately $204,000 on hand isn't far behind Bowen, with about $252,000.
State Sen. Tony Strickland is just $109,000 behind Controller John Chiang,
thanks to more robust fundraising results in the quarter and since the year
began.
Big money is also sloshing around in the November ballot measures --
particularly in the battle over Proposition 23, which would suspend the
state's landmark 2006 law to curb greenhouse gases.
Supporters, led by out-of-state oil company Valero's $4 million, have raised
$8.4 million this year and spent $5.3 million. The campaign also received a
$1 million donation from Flint Hills Resources; the petrochemical company
is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, run by two oil billionaire brothers.
Proposition 23 opponents raised about $13 million this period, about $16
million this year. They have $5.4 million in cash on hand.
In recent weeks, several Silicon Valley venture capitalists and executives
at clean-technology companies have joined environmental organizations in
contributing to defeat the measure.
Thomas Steyer, a hedge fund manager at Farallon Capital Management in San
Francisco, has donated $5 million. Venture capitalist John Doerr and wife,
Ann, a philanthropist and trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund, have
donated $1 million each.
Applied Materials and Tesla Motors donated $25,000 each to the No on 23
campaign, while Arizona-based First Solar donated $50,000.
Supporters of Proposition 19, which would legalize recreational marijuana,
have raised $736,550 this year, compared with $158,417 by opponents.
The Yes on 19 campaign reported having about $67,000 in cash on hand, while
the "no" side has about $54,000.
Counting last year, supporters of Proposition 19 have out-raised opponents
by about 10 to 1, or $2.1 million to $210,000. Nearly three-quarters of the
money has come from Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee.
Those in favor of Proposition 25, which would reduce the threshold for
approving a state budget from a two-thirds vote to a majority vote, have out
-raised opponents about $8 million to about $6 million. | m*******i
发帖数: 8711 | 2 don't forget tax payers pay for half of that $119M. It is tax deductible. | w*t
发帖数: 591 | 3 But that money was / will be spent and somehow boosted economy, right? Look
at it this way, at least Whitman paid half of those "stimulus" money, while
for other stimulus backed by our communist government, we, as tax-payer are
paying 100% of it. |
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