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01
Nov
Thomas Siebel
Category: Super PAC Billionaire
Industry: Technology, Investment Management
Donations to Prop 32: $500,000
Seibel is the Founder and CEO of C3, a large company that’s exempt from Proposition 32. In recent years he’s hosted and sponsored fundraisers for Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, saying in 2008 that Palin “carries the flag of outrage…. for all of us”.
Political Donations Since 2000: $1,584,800
Charles Munger Jr
Category: Super PAC Billionaire
Industry: None (is a university professor)
Donations to Prop 32: $22, 000, 000
Munger is a self-styled “reformer,” but he’s given millions to the state and county Republican parties, and also bankrolls a California Super PAC called “Spirit of Democracy.” Munger’s spent more than $22 million on California elections in recent years.
Political Donations Since 2000: $22,622,150.27
30
Oct
A. Jerrold Perenchio
Category: Super PAC Billionaire, Anti-Education
Industry: Television
Donations to Prop 32: $800,000
One of the largest individual donors in California politics, Perenchio has given millions to the California Republican Party, $1 million to a failed school vouchers initiative, and millions to initiative campaigns backed by Schwarzenegger. He’s also the Founder and Chair of an investment firm that’s exempt from Proposition 32.
Political Donations Since 2000: $27,405,200.92
Tim Draper
Category: Anti Education, Wall Street
Industry: Venture Capital, Technology
Donations to Prop 32: $100,000
Draper’s a wealthy venture capitalist who spent nearly $20 million of his own money backing a failed school-voucher initiative in 2000. He’s also a partner in a major investment firm that’s exempt from Proposition 32
Political Donations Since 2000: $20,482,785.13.
Charles Johnson
Category: Wall Street
Industry: Investment Banking
Donations to Prop 32: $50,000
Johnson is a big Wall Street insider who made his fortune in investment banking. He’s also a frequent donor to national right-wing causes.
Political Donations Since 2000: $1,013,000
01
Oct
William Oberndorf
Category: Anti-Education
Industry: Hedge Fund Management, Hotels
Donations to Prop 32: $150,000
Oberndorf is heavily invested in for-profit education, and he’s given over $800,000 to the California Republican Party in recent years. He’s also the head of two large companies that are exempted from Propostion 32.
Political Donations Since 2000: $1,848,322.55
George Argyros
Category: Big Developer
Industry: Real Estate Development
Donations to Prop 32: $11,320
The wealthy Argyros is a major Republican fundraiser, and has himself spent more than $2 million on California elections since 2000. Argyros also served as George W. Bush’s ambassador to Spain.
Political Donations Since 2000: $2,050,567
B. Wayne Hughes Jr.
Category: Big Developer
Industry: Commercial Real Estate
Donations to Prop 32: $100,000
Hughes, who’s given $100,000 to Prop 32 to-date, is a board member at the shadowy right-wing group ‘American Action Network.’ The secretive AAN shares office space with Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and may receive funding from the Koch Brothers.
Political Donations Since 2000: $304,630
William Bloomfield Jr.
Category: Big Developer
Industry: Laundry, Real Estate Investment
Donations to Prop 32: $300,000 (mother gave $500,000)
Bloomfield is a big developer who’s already given $300,000 to Prop 32—and his mother has given another $500,000. He also runs numerous big companies that are exempt from Proposition 32.
Political Donations Since 2000: $2,640,700
Howard Ahmanson
Category: Radical Conservative
Industry: Banking
Donations to Prop 32: $50,000
Ahmanson is an extreme social conservative and a major political donor. He was a primary backer of Proposition 8, and gave heavily to campaigns to restrict abortion rights
Political Donations Since 2000: $5,798,682.82
