New funding hopes to support moderate candidates

by Brian Leubitz

In June, I mentioned that SEIU was looking at getting some moderates into office, but now it seems they aren’t the only ones.  A new coalition has formed to put $600K towards electing some moderates into the legislature:

The group, Californians for Fiscal Accountability and Responsibility, received six contributions of $100,000 each from major Sacramento interest groups in June. Those include the California Dental Association, California Medical Association, California Association of Realtors, California School Employees Association, SEIU-UHW and State Building and Construction Trades Council.

California Medical Association CEO Dustin Corcoran said the coalition is interested in helping Republicans and Democrats who are willing to work on compromise deals in the Legislature. He said contributors have grown frustrated by gridlock in the Capitol, most recently during the budget process. (CapAlert)

I was more into this idea when we were talking about electing moderate Republicans over extreme tea party types.  Seeing as how they are now looking at playing in races where there are likely to be two Democrats in the general election, well, that isn’t nearly as exciting.  Then again, $600,000 isn’t really all that much in the grand scheme of things. They’ll need to come up with a lot more if they really want to have a statewide impact.