Money Wars: Special Interests Spend Big In California Primary

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With early voting already underway and just two weeks to go before the June 7 primary, millions of dollars of help is now inundating California.

Dan Newman, a consultant for Communities for Justice, said the messaging on Early is consistent with the committee’s own polling that he is most likely to finish second behind Bonta in June, beating out the much better financed Hochman and Schubert for a spot on the November ballot. Early, who ran for attorney general in 2018 and helped organize the 2021 Newsom recall effort, is “already relatively well known and well-loved in MAGA-land,” said Newman.

But opponent shopping can be a risky game, said political scientist Pitney. In the 1966 governor’s race, Pat Brown “dumped a lot of opposition on George Christopher,” the moderate Republican mayor of San Francisco, in order to steer the GOP nomination to whom Brown’s camp believed to be the less electable alternative.

Earlier this month a committee funded by the state’s landlord lobby and the California Association of Realtors spent roughly $20,000 to support the candidacy of former Assemblymember Kansen Chu, a Democrat who is hoping to once again represent Reported donations to those committees show that the ultimate source of the cash is a who’s who of some of the largest business interests in the state, including Uber, Amazon, Sempra Energy and Chevron.

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