As political observers have predicted ever since the Supreme Court spat the Citizens United decision at us in 2010, late independent expenditures — yup, “LIEs” –are the things to watch in this race. In AD-69, Julio Perez has been the beneficiary of about $102,891 in LIEs from Orange County Dignity PAC (Orange County Labor Federation and AFL-CIO), from $44,798 in LIEs from OCEA, and is opposed by $13,641.00 in LIES from Californians Allied for Patient Protection Independent Expenditures Account, which is funded by doctors and health insurers. Michele Martinez has been the beneficiary of … nothing. (I’m not happy about having correctly predicted this months ago. It’s shabby treatment of her by her “friends.”)
But when it came to LIEs, the story this year was supposed to be Tom Daly — who was not doing a lot of fundraising and who I and others were assured would be taken care of by an ample number of LIEs. So how’s he doing?
This is just the past few days of late independent expenditures for Daly:
Now, you know who Landlords are — and I’m sure that, like everyone else in the world, you love them. JOBSPAC, despite the “bipartisan label,” has made late independent expeditures only for (and in one case against) Democrats in this cycle. But who funds “JOBSPAC”? Let’s take a look!
| AT&T INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES |
$30.000.00 |
| ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS |
$5,000.00 |
| ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS |
$5,000.00 |
| ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE |
$15,000.00 |
| ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS |
$5,000.00 |
| CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (CREPAC) |
$30,000.00 |
| CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FUND TO PROTECT THE FAMILY FARM PAC |
$10,000.00 |
| CALIFORNIA AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES PAC |
$30,000.00 |
| CALIFORNIA CABLE & TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION NON-PROP 34 COMMITTEE |
$35,000.00 |
| IBAPAC (INSURANCE BROKERS & AGENTS PAC) |
$30,000.00 |
| PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY |
$30,000.00 |
| ANTHEM BLUE CROSS |
$30,000.00 |
| CHEVRON CORPORATION |
$30,000.00 |
| FARMERS EMPLOYEES & AGENTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE |
$30,000.00 |
| EDISON INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES |
$30,000.00 |
| PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., BY ITS SERVICE COMPANY, ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES, INC. |
$30,000.00 |
| ANTHEM BLUE CROSS |
$40,000.00 |
| WESTERN MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITIES ASSN. ISSUES PAC |
$30,000.00 |
| BLUE DIAMOND GROWERS |
$5,000.00 |
| CHEVRON CORPORATION |
$375,000.00 |
| AT&T INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES |
$2,500.00 |
| ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES, INC. |
$25,000.00 |
| CHECK INTO CASH CALIFORNIA, INC. |
$2,500.00 |
| AXCESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. |
$2,500.00 |
| QC HOLDINGS, INC. |
$2,500.00 |
| ADVANCE AMERICA |
$2,500.00 |
| PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., BY ITS SERVICE COMPANY, ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES, INC. |
$50,000.00 |
| CALIFORNIA AMERICAN WATER |
$6,500.00 |
| CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE (CREIEC) |
$15,000.00 |
I’ve put the top four donors in different colors to help you notice them: Chevron (oil), $375,000; Philip Morris (tobacco), $80,000; Anthem Blue Cross (health insurers), $70,000; CREIEC (real estate) ($45,000). Do you get the sense that there’s a clubhouse somewhere where corporations meet and Chevron says “ok, we and Philip Morris and Blue Cross are going to put together this PAC for independent expenditures, and we want all of youse guys to kick in $30,000 smackers a piece — from you small fry we only need $2500)”? I do. So that’s JOBSPAC, one of Tom Daly’s biggest supporters.
That’s really a lot of money! How much do Chevron & Co. care about Tom Daly? Let’s see who wins the coveted Chevron Cup — a name that admittedly I just made up, but that seems to have a chance of sticking! JOBSPAC is only making LIEs in five races this year. Who gets the most? Can Daly prevail? Here’s all of JOBSPAC’s LIEs — again, “late independent expenditures” — for this cycle:
SUPPORTING ADAM GRAY in
STATE SENATE DISTRICT 21: $80,904.00
$15,468.00 + $4,000.00 + $5,000.00 + $5,000.00 + $15,468.00 + $1,000.00 + $19,500.00 + $15,468.00
SUPPORTING SUSAN EGGMAN in
STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 13: $32,518.57
$15,598.04 + $2,905.96 + $6,514.57 + $5,000.00 + $2,500.00
OPPOSING XOCHITL RAYA PADERES in STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 13: $49,684.02
$17,336.44 + $18,333.02 + $2,500.00 + $5,000.00 + $6,514.56
SUPPORTING TOM CALDERON in STATE ASSEMBLY
DISTRICT 58: $13.113.96
$1,500.00 + $1,500.00 + $10,113.96
SUPPORTING TOM DALY in STATE ASSEMBLY
DISTRICT 69: $279,323.30
$5,230.03 + $8,880.35 + $12,137.20 + $9,522.98 + $7,094.09 + $14,122.35 + $12,758.05 + $14,888.56 + $34,000.00 + $3,732.85 + $5,014.33 + $34,910.31 + $10,000.00 + $5,000.00 + $10,000.00 + $10,000.00 + $2,683.00 + $51,000.00 + $1,849.20 + $25,000.00 + $1,500.00.
Wow! Setting the story out in Chevron blue and red, we can say:
What's red, white, and blue?
TOM DALY WINS!!!
TOM DALY WINS THE CHEVRON CUP!!!
TOM DALY IS LIKE TIGER WOODS IN 2000-2002!
HE HAS LAPPED THE FIELD!
$279,323 vs. $176,221 FOR EVERYONE ELSE!
WHAT AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE!
Yes, Tom Daly is the recipient of almost three times the amount of late independent expenditures as Julio Perez — and that is a whole lot of LIEs!
This means that Julio is the Democrat that Chevron, Philip Morris, Anthem Blue Cross, and their twisted brethren most want to see NOT IN THE LEGISLATURE next year. Can you think of a better compliment than that?
So, Tom Daly is likely to win the primary — but there won’t be this sort of discrepancy in the general election; PACs like this have too many fish to fry, and news like this is going to alienate Democrats something fierce. It will be Daly as #1 and Perez as #2 in June — but I’m predicting the opposite order in November.
Out of curiosity I checked out major contributions directly to Daly and guess what pops up? PG & E, Anthem Blue Cross, Plastics Council and other insurance folks. Yup, Tom is so NOT a real Democrat. He’s clearly the favorite of those who screw the little guy. Could he possibly be even worse than Jose Solorio? At least when Jose ran, he got more progressive money before turning around and taking bad votes. Tom is bad from the beginning.
And there’s another $167,000 or so in money from Chervron’s JOBSPAC to Tom Daly just today! Their LIE are now about four times as much as the pro-union ones for Julio Perez in the race. They are AFRAID of Julio! What a compliment!
Like I was going to entitle my piece on the same topic – Julio is “The Most Dangerous Politician in California!” (From the point of view of those who want to keep ripping us off that is.)