Fundraising weak for constitutional reform groups
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If either of the two groups seeking major changes to the California constitution hope to qualify their measures for the ballot this fall, they had better kick their fundraising efforts into overdrive.
Capitol Weekly reports that Repair California, a business-backed group seeking a new constitutional convention, and California Forward, a bipartisan group backed by nonprofit foundations seeking major constitutional revisions, reported soft fundraising totals for 2009:
Repair California, the reform group backing a state constitutional convention, raised more than $352,000 during 2009 – a significant amount but far less than the millions of dollars typically needed in California to gather signatures to qualify a pair of initiatives for the November ballot. ... ... Meanwhile, fundraising for California Forward also appears stalled. The group has $82,000 on hand and raised just $3,000 last year.
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-- Anthony York in Sacramento