The political action committee backing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest ballot-measure drive has raised $1.7 million in just over two months, campaign finance reports revealed Thursday -- nearly all of it from an executive who was already one of the governor's top donors.
Campaign finance disclosure statements for the business-backed initiative group Citizens to Save California released Thursday by the Secretary of State's office show that $1.5 million came from Jerry Perenchio, a Univision television executive. Perenchio gave $792,400 to Schwarzenegger's re-election committee during the governor's first year in office.
Of the 12 other donors listed, six also gave money to the governor last year, according to Jamie Court of the Foundation for Consumer and Taxpayer Rights, a nonpartisan advocacy group critical of Schwarzenegger's fund-raising tactics.
Nine donors to the committee -- from San Diego hotel owner Anne L. Evans to Sacramento real estate developer Michael Lyon -- gave $10,000. Others who gave more included Atlas Hotels of San Diego ($25,000); real estate developer Malin Burnham ($50,000); and KB Home of Los Angeles ($30,000).
Only one of the 13 -- the Pasha Group, a Corte Madera-based transportation and logistics firm -- is from the Bay Area.
Many donations were made Wednesday, the day after Schwarzenegger blasted the Democratic Legislature for not enacting a sweeping set of recently unveiled proposals on redistricting, education and public pensions, and began gathering signatures for ballot initiatives voters may face in a special election in November.
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