Following the money to USC
Tomorrow, bright and early to beat the traffic, I’m off to the Annenberg School for Communication to attend The Investigative Reporters and Editors Campaign Finance Workshop.
I really got into following the money during 2004’s Hesperia City Council campaign and this year, if anything, will be even more slam-bang of an election season. I’m looking forward to the seminar, although 84 miles, driving with rush hour traffic into LA, and trying to get there by the 9 a.m. start fills me with dread.
We’ll see how it works out.
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One of the things the “developer” city council members(Lindley, Pack, and Honeycutt) do is take money from these PACs which are just a front for developers. For example, in 2002, the PAC, Tax Payers for Good Goverment, doled out over $400K to city council people in the HD. When you look at who contributes to the PAC, you see that around 75% of their contributions come from the Lewis Group, the biggest developer in the HD. The rest from other developers.
Good to see a local paper expose the truth. Not, that these guys are doing anything illegal, but the voters should know if a candidate is getting 99.99% of their record breaking campaign funds from ONE special interest. I hope you shine the light of truth!
Comment by Henry Hesperia — January 21, 2006 @ 8:59