Giuliani fundraiser gave big bucks to state ballot measure (Calif. electoral votes)

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-28) 17:42 PDT San Francisco -- A major New York fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been revealed as the money man behind a proposed ballot measure that would have changed California's "winner take all" electoral college system - and likely benefited Republicans.

Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund executive and Giuliani policy adviser, acknowledged his role to the New York Daily News on Friday just a day after GOP organizers in California said they were folding their effort to collect signatures for the group called Californians for Equal Representation.

The Chronicle reported earlier this week that Missouri-based attorney Charles Hurtt III was the legal agent for a tax-exempt corporation called "Take Initiative America," which provided the sole donation - $175,000 - into the effort to qualify the measure for the California ballot.

But Hurtt and his organization would not reveal the source of their money - even as Democrats in California threatened legal action and charged the GOP-backed effort smacked of money laundering. They suggested there were numerous links between the ballot effort and the Giuliani campaign, and challenged the former New York mayor's campaign aides to reveal where the money originated.

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/28/MNSESGGJB.DTL

[goclark]

1. His wife must be running his campaign

They are both a piece of work.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Data about Singer

Partner - Elliott Capital Advisors LP
Trustee - Manhattan Institute 2004
Pioneer - Bush-Cheney 2004

[LiberalFighter]

3. It should be illegal for out of staters to be involved in how elections are conducted

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. And yet, that's how we got Arnold as governor.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. About the ballot measure, I don't think they're giving up on this plan

I suspect they're going to let the grassroots take over so that it doesn't appear to be as partisan as it is.