Watchdog group files suit to stop Schwarzenegger fund-raising

[Kadie]

Watchdog group files suit to stop Schwarzenegger fund-raising
By TOM CHORNEAU, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, March 15, 2005


(03-15) 16:58 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


A nonprofit watchdog group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in an effort to stop Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from helping to raise big contributions for ballot measures he wants to put before voters in a special election this fall.


TheRestofUs.org filed a complaint last month with the California Fair Political Practices Commission arguing that the governor was violating a state law that capped how much money a donor could contribute to a candidate controlled committee.


The watchdog group claimed that Schwarzenegger is playing a controlling role in a committee organized by supporters of the governor that is backing his ballot measures, called Citizens to Save California.


Under state law, a candidate-controlled committee cannot accept more than $22,300 from any single donor in the same election cycle. Citizens to Save California, however, has accepted in recent weeks checks of more than $1 million from single contributors.

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[msongs]

1. hmmm, maybe the dems will hammer the gov on this.....or maybe not...

if my coward legislators are gonna vote to make a repub the new secretary of state instead of demanding arnold appoint a democrat as was shelley, I do not thinkt our dems will put up much of a fight over anything. hope I am wrong.

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