Question: Can a UC campus foundation give money to ballot campaigns? If so, has it happened?
Answer: The UCLA Foundation has twice given money to campaigns for ballot propositions in the past decade. Both propositions involved money for higher ed, including UC. In 2004, the Foundation gave $57,087 to support Prop 55 – a bond measure for education which narrowly passed. In 2006, it gave $87,550 in support of Prop 1D – also an education bond measure but which passed by a respectable 56.9%. Other UC and CSU foundations have made similar contributions.
You can find the contribution information by going to http://www.followthemoney.org/ and typing “UCLA Foundation” in the search option. Election results are available at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2006_general/measures.pdf
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http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2004_primary/vote_summaries.pdf
2 comments:
recall at the last regents meeting where they were talking about splitting money with First Five and various ballot proposition scenarios-- it seems like that would take a lot more money than tens of thousands-- do you have an idea on the ballpark figure for that sort of ballot prop work? millions right? are UC foundations inclined to put out that kind of dough?
In the bond measure cases, the combination of various UC and CSU foundation money added up into the millions.
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