French operator of spill-plagued border sewage plant gives $5,000 to GOP Lincoln Club
Veolia Water North American Operating Services, Inc., a Chicago-based based subsidiary of the French corporate giant Veolia Environment, has given $5,000 to the San Diego's GOP Lincoln Club, according to a filing posted online Tuesday by the California Secretary of …
Pub owners' PAC backing pro-DeMaio Lincoln Club gets $10,000 from Sempra Energy
As the race for San Diego mayor heads for the wire, it's getting harder to keep track of which big money players are giving to what causes. Take for example, the case of the San Diego Restaurant & Beverage Political …
Record $234,595 spent on broadcast ads in just one day in city races
After months of fundraising by those having a special financial interest in what happens at San Diego's city hall, the cash has begun to fly in record amounts during the final run-up to next month's mayoral election. Major television advertising …
State audit cites San Diego Community College District for faulty crime reports
According to a report released October 16 by the California State Auditor, the San Diego Community College district, along with five other California schools, failed to adequately comply with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime …
Qualcomm billionaire Jacobs is Obama's second biggest donor, says Associated Press
The Associated Press is out with a dispatch ranking controversial La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs as second in the nation among contributors to the re-election cause of President Barack Obama. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/22/34100/ With total Obama-related donations of $2.122 million, Jacobs is …
Favor for Favor(s)
On heels of FBI deal, DeMaio catches a break from the Feds.
GOP hotel mogul Doug Manchester's U-T San Diego reported this afternoon that U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy has jumped into San Diego's mayoral fray with both feet, calling Democratic congressman Bob Filner's behavior at a weekend forum "uncivil." “Our apologies that …
City Council Democrats spend special interest cash for party's cause
Two Democratic members of the San Diego city council, already safely re-elected, have been giving their surplus campaign funds - gathered in large part from an array of special interests with business at city hall - to the county Democratic …
GOP Congressman Hunter pays wife from campaign fund
The matter of a politician paying his spouse from a campaign committee has long served as political attack fodder in San Diego. The most recent example came earlier this month when a U-T San Diego editorial blasted Democratic congressman Bob …
Realtors and restaurateurs are San Diego GOP's latest big money players
As the day of the November election draws ever nearer, campaign cash continues to pile up at a record pace. The latest big money players include the San Diego Association of Realtors IMPAC, which, according to a disclosure filing posted …
Yet another big-money campaign fund, this one run by environmentalist, joins San Diego mayoral fray
There's San Diegans for Reform in Opposition to Bob Filner - Mayor 2012, and there's San Diegans in Support of Bob Filner for Mayor - 2012. There's Too Extreme for San Diego - a committee to oppose Carl DeMaio for …
Sempra Energy gave out more than $1.2 million in California political cash through June
Gov. Jerry Brown is in the latest fight of his political life this fall with Molly Munger, the wealthy lawyer who is backing Proposition 38 against Brown's Prop 30 tax hike measure on November's ballot. But the governor is apparently …
Big Swiss biotech multinational with San Diego history gives $1 million to beat Prop 37
World biotech giant Syngenta AG, which once ran the Torrey Mesa Research Institute just north of La Jolla, has come up with $1 million for the campaign against California's Proposition 37, a measure to impose labeling requirements on so-called genetically …
Vulture capitalist who flipped San Diego U-T to Doug Manchester is unloading another bauble
Just a little over one year ago Don Bauder broke the story that Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills was dumping the San Diego Union-Tribune. The buyer: hotelier and GOP stalwart Doug Manchester. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/11/33344/ Now comes word via Forbes magazine that …
Irwin Jacobs bankrolls $2.8 billion San Diego Unified school bond campaign; Buzz Woolley opposes
The campaign to pass Proposition Z, a $2.8 billion bond measure put on the ballot by the San Diego Unified school district, has collected $266,075 through September 30. A good chunk of the money has come from firms with a …
Wealthy charter school advocate gives cash to interest group opposing San Diego school bond measure
CAC Advisory Services, LLC, a firm run by charter school advocate Rod Dammeyer, has kicked in $3,350 to the San Diego County Taxpayers Association PAC, a group of business and lobbying interests currently warring against the San Diego Unified School …
Anti-Filner campaign fund picks up $403,900 from apartment owners, contractors, lobbyists
A group calling itself "San Diegans for Reform in Opposition to Bob Filner - Mayor 2012," sponsored by the Lincoln Club of San Diego, a Republican organization of regional business and lobbying interests, has raised $403,900 through September 30, according …
Washington, D.C.-based public employee union backs Filner with $400,000
An independent expenditure committee calling itself "San Diegans in Support of Bob Filner for Mayor - 2012" has collected a total of $607,500 from labor unions, a wealthy local Democrat, and a corporation sharing an address with La Jolla's premier …
Wealthy La Jolla and Rancho Santa Fe denizens pouring big cash into Southeast school board race
Three wealthy San Diegans are doubling down on their support of William Ponder against teachers union-endorsed Marne Foster in their race for San Diego school board. The two candidates, vying for the sub-district E seat being vacated by Shelia Jackson, …
While tax hike vote looms, UCSD's "Travel and Entertainment Team" seeks $72,000 assistant
University of California president Mark Yudof has been out on the stump for Jerry Brown's Proposition 30, talking down the university’s financial future if voters reject the governor's massive tax hike measure in November. "I see Prop. 30 as, perhaps, …
Donors walking: Democratic billionaire Irwin Jacobs and wife Joan kick in $80,000 to defeat death penalty
Politically speaking, it's been quite a week for Qualcomm founder and La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs. Fresh from his endorsement of Republican city councilman Carl DeMaio's mayoral candidacy last Thursday, the interview-shy cell phone magnate quickly tacked back to the …