Money Gushes in Prop. 23 Fight
The Sacremento Bee – July 15, 2010
Supporters of California’s global warming law have raised more than $2 million so far to defend the landmark legislation in what’s shaping up as an expensive November ballot battle.
Filings with the California secretary of state show that environmental groups and clean energy advocates were big givers to the campaign against Proposition 23, which would suspend AB 32 until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent.
Donors included the Natural Resources Defense Council, which contributed $975,000, and the Green Tech Action Fund, which gave $500,000. Anne Earhart, a longtime backer of environmental causes and an heiress to the Getty family fortune, donated $250,000.
The fundraising effort rivals that of the California Jobs Initiative Committee, which is spearheading the effort to roll back California’s climate change law.