Brown managed to raise $1.2 mil, without spending a dime?
I am really not sure, at all, when Jerry Brown has time to be Governor of California. I know that it was to that job to which he was elected, but it seems to me that Brown must be spending all of his free time as a volunteer handing every aspect of his drive to place massive tax increases on the November ballot. In the Form 460 Campaign Finance Filing for the Governor’s tax increase ballot measure committee, Californians to Protect Schools, Universities, and Public Safety, a ballot measure committee supported by Governor Jerry Brown, the busy-bee Governor reported bringing in contributions totaling $1,198,311.56. That’s a pretty serious haul, and no doubt it involved considerable time and effort by Brown and his volunteer army…
You see, a review of the committee’s campaign financials that were filed yesterday list precisely no expenditures nor do they list any accrued but unpaid expenses. This means that all of these funds have been raised without the help of any professional fundraising consultants, whatsoever. And God bless the campaign treasurer of record, Rubeena Singh, who is obviously volunteering her services to do all of the campaign’s financials. I conclude this because neither she, nor anyone else, billed the campaign for services.
Now I had heard a rumor that the State Democrat Party was helping with expenses towards this effort to hike taxes. But then any services provided by the CDP to a ballot measure committee would have to be reported as an in-kind contribution at a fair market value.
I guess the generous December donors to this campaign to sock it to taxpayers which include (among others) the Morongo Band of Mission Indians Banning, Blue Shield of California, the California Tribal Business Alliance IE PAC, the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, the San Pablo Lytton Casino, and the California Hospitals Committee On Issues, can all feel good knowing that none of their funds are being diverted to any overhead.