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Jerry Brown has his favorite charities. He is also a VERY good fund raiser for them.
"Gambling halls and arts education may make strange bedfellows. But over the last three years, five Los Angeles-area card clubs have showered more than $100,000 on a Bay Area school for the arts some 400 miles away.
The gifts offered more than a chance to help inner-city kids. They were an opportunity to please the state official who asked for the money, directly oversees the clubs and is widely viewed as the front-runner to be California's next governor: state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown.
Since taking office almost three years ago, Brown has raised nearly $10 million for two charter schools, the arts academy and a military institute, that he founded as mayor of Oakland. In addition to tapping the card clubs whose licensing and operations his Bureau of Gambling Control watches over, he has held out his hand to influential industries and the politically connected.
Those who have answered include Zenith Insurance ($95,000), Pacific Gas & Electric ($75,000), AT&T ($70,000), Wal-Mart ($50,000) and Bank of America ($30,000), state records show. Hollywood producer and Democratic financier Stephen Bing donated more than $1 million."
Some of these donors are also under investigation or constant regulation by government. This is the new way Special Interests get "friendly" with Jerry Brown.
Do you think this practice is corrupt?
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"Gambling halls and arts education may make strange bedfellows. But over the last three years, five Los Angeles-area card clubs have showered more than $100,000 on a Bay Area school for the arts some 400 miles away.
The gifts offered more than a chance to help inner-city kids. They were an opportunity to please the state official who asked for the money, directly oversees the clubs and is widely viewed as the front-runner to be California's next governor: state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown.
Since taking office almost three years ago, Brown has raised nearly $10 million for two charter schools, the arts academy and a military institute, that he founded as mayor of Oakland. In addition to tapping the card clubs whose licensing and operations his Bureau of Gambling Control watches over, he has held out his hand to influential industries and the politically connected.
Those who have answered include Zenith Insurance ($95,000), Pacific Gas & Electric ($75,000), AT&T ($70,000), Wal-Mart ($50,000) and Bank of America ($30,000), state records show. Hollywood producer and Democratic financier Stephen Bing donated more than $1 million."
Some of these donors are also under investigation or constant regulation by government. This is the new way Special Interests get "friendly" with Jerry Brown.
Do you think this practice is corrupt?
More...