Every night at midnight I get an e-mail from Scott Lay at ElectionTrack.com. Many of you may know Scott from around the Capitol or from the Community College circuit.
If you are interests in politics his daily e-mail at midnight will give you an idea of how money in moving around the state. Personally, I look at it every night before I go to bed.
The e-mail which is free — tells you all the contribution required to be reported in the 24 hour reporting cycle. You can sign up at www.electiontrack.com
The other night I was looking at my e-mall on my blackberry as I was walking upstairs and noticed that Forest City Residential was nice enough to give Jerry Brown $10,000. That was similar enough to the name of Forest City Residential West that is the company name for Kevin Ratner that serves on the Board of Directors of the California State Chamber of Commerce. He is one of the four people that signed the letter regarding pulling the ad off the air that was critical of the Attorney General.
What was great is that when I went to the Board of Directors for Forest City I found that seven of them have a last name that includes Ratner. Lovely.
It just made me realize that this whole thing with the Chamber and the objection from the board members is hardly motivated by fairness. It is motivated by personal political agendas.
ElectionTrack is a fabulous service that Scott provides for free. Signs up for the e-mail if you are interested in how money is moving around the state.