{"id":14637,"date":"2012-10-22T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:58:44","slug":"joe-matthews-11mil-dumbest-donation-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/22\/joe-matthews-11mil-dumbest-donation-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Matthews: $11Mil Dumbest Donation Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Calls out Yes on 32\/No on 30 &#8220;Small Business Action Committee&#8221; for hypocrisy<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>\nby Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/VoteNoOn32.org\/DumbestDonation\" data-text=\"Secret $11Mil to support #Prop32 &quot;dumbest donation ever&quot; &amp; should be returned, says @joemmathews\" data-via=\"StopExemptions\" data-size=\"large\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.votenoon32.org\/updates\/dumbest-donation-ever\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;Share on Facebook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/VoteNoOn32.org\/system\/storage\/178\/0f\/b\/229\/joe_matthews2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Joe Mathews\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><br \/>You may have already heard the news about the $11,000,000 donation from the &#8220;Americans for Responsible Leadership,&#8221; a group that refuses to discloses its contributors. In fact, last week we posted about the Sacramento Bee calling out both the group that gave and received the anonymous cash.<\/p>\n<p>However, Joe Mathews, a noted California political journalist and analyst, points out how the secretive money puts the lie to the notion that Proposition 32 is about campaign finance reform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Seriously, do you remember a more counterproductive donation than this one? In this case, the $11 million is being given in such a way that it destroys whatever chances Prop 32, the measure that anonymous donors are supposedly supporting, might have had of passing.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 32 is being sold as campaign finance reform. An anonymous donation steps on that message; the huge, overwhelmingly negative publicity the donation has drawn to 32 has to be worth more than the $11 million. And in a larger sense, the donation exposes the core of what&rsquo;s wrong with Prop 32 and other attempts at what is sometimes called &ldquo;Paycheck Protection&rdquo; as a way to blunt union power. &#8230; Instead, they are giving and accepting an anonymous donation, an act that will confirm the worst stereotypes about critics of public employee unions. <strong>If the backers of Prop 32 want true political reform, and less domination by public employee unions, they should give the $11 million back. Right away.<\/strong>(emphasis added,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/2012\/10\/dumbest-donation-ever\/\">Fox and Hounds Daily<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Mathews states, the secretive $11,000,000 tells a lot more about what Prop 32 really is. It is a measure to silence working Californians, while allowing for the proliferation of secretive SuperPACs like the &#8220;Americans for Responsible Leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full column at &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/2012\/10\/dumbest-donation-ever\/\">Fox and Hounds Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Brian Leubitz, the editor of this blog, works for the No on 32 campaign. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Stop-Special-Exemptions\/321228154620155\">like the campaign on facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/StopExemptions\">follow on twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Calls out Yes on 32\/No on 30 &#8220;Small Business Action Committee&#8221; for hypocrisy<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>\nby Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/VoteNoOn32.org\/DumbestDonation\" data-text=\"Secret $11Mil to support #Prop32 &quot;dumbest donation ever&quot; &amp; should be returned, says @joemmathews\" data-via=\"StopExemptions\" data-size=\"large\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.votenoon32.org\/updates\/dumbest-donation-ever\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;Share on Facebook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/VoteNoOn32.org\/system\/storage\/178\/0f\/b\/229\/joe_matthews2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Joe Mathews\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><br \/>You may have already heard the news about the $11,000,000 donation from the &#8220;Americans for Responsible Leadership,&#8221; a group that refuses to discloses its contributors. In fact, last week we posted about the Sacramento Bee calling out both the group that gave and received the anonymous cash.<\/p>\n<p>However, Joe Mathews, a noted California political journalist and analyst, points out how the secretive money puts the lie to the notion that Proposition 32 is about campaign finance reform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Seriously, do you remember a more counterproductive donation than this one? In this case, the $11 million is being given in such a way that it destroys whatever chances Prop 32, the measure that anonymous donors are supposedly supporting, might have had of passing.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 32 is being sold as campaign finance reform. An anonymous donation steps on that message; the huge, overwhelmingly negative publicity the donation has drawn to 32 has to be worth more than the $11 million. And in a larger sense, the donation exposes the core of what&rsquo;s wrong with Prop 32 and other attempts at what is sometimes called &ldquo;Paycheck Protection&rdquo; as a way to blunt union power. &#8230; Instead, they are giving and accepting an anonymous donation, an act that will confirm the worst stereotypes about critics of public employee unions. <strong>If the backers of Prop 32 want true political reform, and less domination by public employee unions, they should give the $11 million back. Right away.<\/strong>(emphasis added,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/2012\/10\/dumbest-donation-ever\/\">Fox and Hounds Daily<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Mathews states, the secretive $11,000,000 tells a lot more about what Prop 32 really is. It is a measure to silence working Californians, while allowing for the proliferation of secretive SuperPACs like the &#8220;Americans for Responsible Leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full column at &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/2012\/10\/dumbest-donation-ever\/\">Fox and Hounds Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Brian Leubitz, the editor of this blog, works for the No on 32 campaign. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Stop-Special-Exemptions\/321228154620155\">like the campaign on facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/StopExemptions\">follow on twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[10817,10698,10695,10659],"class_list":["post-14637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-10817","tag-10698","tag-10695","tag-10659"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3O5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}