BREAKING NEWS: Giuliani fundraiser was mystery CA Electoral Vote initiative backer

BREAKING NEWS: Giuliani fundraiser was mystery initiative backer
--Andrew Malcolm-- Sep28, 2007
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/09/breaking-news-g.html

A close friend and major fundraiser of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has identified himself as the mystery financer of the proposed California initiative to apportion the state's 55 electoral votes by congressional district instead of winner-take-all.

He is New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer. He said he provided the $175,000 to initially finance the petition drive to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot. But as The Times' Dan Morain revealed in an exclusive story on this website last night, the drive has foundered on internal disputes and lack of further financing.

The petition drive's backers had remained a mystery since the effort was first revealed here in a July Top of the Ticket item. Democratic critics portrayed it as a power grab to wrest away some of the state's electoral votes, which have all gone to the Democratic candidates for the past four presidential elections. Some 19 of the state's 53 congressional districts would seem likely to vote for a GOP presidential candidate, enough to swing some recent national elections.

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Singer oversees Elliott Associates, an $8 billion investment fund. He is also chairman of Giuliani's northeast fundraising operation that produced a third of the New Yorker's $33.5 million campaign war chest in the first six months of 2007. ............

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Rovian tricks. I'm sure they're striving to follow his guidelines and live up to his "standards".

According to Bill O'Lielly, the only sinister rich people funding initiatives are people on the loony left, like George Soros.

Could he have financed other dirty tricks in 2000 or 2004?

This is just one of several clandestine Repugnican astroturf and financing groups that have long operated under the radar and surely isn't just Rudy and Singer alone. I'll bet a bright shiny dime that Rove had his fingers in this, too and the plans went to hell when Karl bugged out of the beltway.

I'd be curious if Singer was also tied in with the recall of Gray Davis or any of the other slimy Repugnican dirty tricks groups.

It seems Arnold took the prize away from the instigators.
They did not see that one coming, I suspect.
You have to wonder if the Kennedy clan saved the day in CA?