Tuesday, March 9, 2010 5:17 PM
Ballot Measures Draw Special Interest Cash
They may not have caught up to congressional candidates yet when it comes to raking in the bucks, but statewide ballot measure campaigns saw another increase in contributions in 2008, most of them from businesses or other special interests, according to a new study by the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Overall, ballot measure committees (for and against) took in $813.7 million. (Congressional candidates raised $1.42 billion in 2007 and 2008. In the off-election year of 2007, ballot measures attracted $55.4 million.)
The top six givers in 2008 ballot measures contributed to influence gambling measures in California, Maryland and Ohio, lead by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians which wrote checks totaling $41.3 million.
Overall, campaigns related to California propositions 94-97 which all dealt with Indian gaming, scooped up $171 million (eat your heart out Jack Abramoff). Not surprisingly, efforts in the Golden State, which has made a habit of ballot-box governing, drew $471.6 million in contributions related to ballot measures.
Companies affiliated with oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who has been promoting energy independence nationally, spent $21.6 million to pass a bond measure in California that would have provided rebates for the purchase of vehicles that ran on alternative fuels. The measure failed.
Labor unions opened up their wallets to the tune of $88.6 million on a variety of measures. After California gambling, the biggest ballot measure draw was California's Proposition 8 which banned gay marriage in the state. Those campaigns, both for and against, attracted $105.8 milion.
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