[courtesy of California Progress Report]

[Editor's note: The following letter was sent to Poizner who heads the opposition to Proposition 93 from Susan Smartt, Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters. No answers to the questions she has asked have been received. California voters deserve to know this information and we wait.]

November 28, 2007

Mr. Steve Poizner
Insurance Commissioner

Dear Commissioner Poizner:

The Contra Costa Times reported last week that a Virginia-based organization gave $1.5 million in contributions to your campaign committee against Proposition 93 but refuses to disclose where the money came from. You have claimed to support political reform but now you’ve accepted $1.5 million in campaign contributions from an out-of-state source that refuses to say who gave the money or why.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Recently liberated the Capitol Alert firewall, Daniel Weintraub questions Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner's decision to throw $1.5 million into the No on Prop 93 campaign. Says Weintraub:

"I wish I had Steve Poizner's money. If I did, I bet I could find something better to spent $1.5 mil of it on than trying to kill Prop. 93, the legislative leaders' attempt to change term limits in California.

I know I'm supposed to be real agitated that the proposal would allow assembly members to serve 12 years rather than six, and senators to serve 12 years rather than 8, and it even applies to lawmakers already serving. But to me it's a big yawn. I don't think it makes much of a difference either way. Once this crew washes out, the new members will serve a maximum of 12 years rather than the current 14, and they can serve it all in one house or the other. Is that going to change the world? I doubt it."

Good to have you back, Dan.

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]