Meet The Men Behind The Money
These shadowy corporate fat cats are trying to deceive voters by calling their campaign committee "Teachers, firefighters and law enforcement." The truth is here in green and white (we chose green because it's clearly their favorite color). Prop 75 was conceived by, is paid for by and is designed to push the agenda of millionaires and corporate special interests.
For more information on the deceptive agenda of Prop 75, go to BetterCA.com.
 Richard Hill Adams Contribution: $1,000 |
Richard Hill Adams of Newport Beach contributed $1,000 to Yes on 75 on October 19th. Adams is an executive with American Realty Capital Advisors, a real estate development company. American Realty Capital Advisors gave $10,000 to the California Recovery Team in July. Adams ran unsuccessfully for the San Juan Capistrano City Council in 2002. [California Secretary of State, Orange County Register, 11/7/02] |
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Dan J. Harkey Contribution: $5,000 |
Dan J. Harkey of San Juan Capistrano contributed $5,000 to Yes on 75 on October 19th. Dan Harkey is a mortgage banker with Point Center Financial in San Juan Capistrano, which specializes in commercial real estate loans. The Point Center website brags about having "its own legislative advocate in Sacramento." The "advocate" is Wallace-Puccio-Garrett, who lobbied on their behalf for various real estate and lender related bills, along with bills to regulate junk faxes and text messages. Harkey has contributed $9,000 to the Lincoln Club of Orange County. [www.pointcenter.com; California Secretary of State; www.leginfo.ca.gov; www.tray.com] |
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 Richard Gilder Contribution: $25,000 |
Richard Gilder contributed $25,000 to Yes on 75 on October 7th. Gilder is a powerful Wall Street stockbroker on the board of directors of the Club for Growth, an ultra-right wing fringe group that raises millions of dollars to replace moderate, consensus-building Republicans with hardcore right-wingers. Frank Baxter, one of Yes on 75's leading donors, is one the founders Committee of the Club for Growth. Gilder was a co-owner of the Texas Rangers with President Bush, adding his name to the list of blue collar union members that have owned a professional baseball team. His motive for silencing workers is school vouchers, as he contributed $100,000 to the 1993 voucher effort in California. [ www.clubforgrowth.org ; www.motherjones.com] |
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Fred R. Sacher Contribution: $1,000 |
Fred R. Sacher contributed $1,000 to Yes on 75 on October 5th. Sacher is a real estate developer. He was a member of the Christian conservative Council for National Policy along with Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Dr. James Dobson, Grover Norquist, and fellow Prop. 75 backer Howard Ahmanson. In the 1980s, he gave $400,000 to the Nicaraguan Contras and received a personal thank you letter from Oliver North. [Los Angeles Times, 7/19/87] |
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 Frank E. Baxter Contribution: $251,000 |
Baxter, the former chairman of a large Irvine-based investment firm, is also a founding member of the right-wing fringe group Club for Growth. Though he was a Bush "Pioneer,"to the best of our knowledge Mr. Baxter has never been a firefighter. He is also a major donor to the California Republican Party, to the corporate coalition Small Business Action Committee, to Prop. 226, and to a school voucher campaign. [Roll Call, 8/30/04] [California Secretary of State] [www.whitehouseforsale.org] |
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Robin P. Arkley II Contribution: $302,001 |
Robin P. Arkely II is President and CEO of Security National Servicing Corp, a large, Eureka-based mortgage company. Arkley and his wife Cherie, through his company, have given Arnold Schwarzenegger $332,000 and the Small Business Action Committee $100,000. The Arkleys also donated $100,000 to Bush's inauguration.[www.arnoldwatch.org, California Secretary of State] [www.whitehouseforsale.org] |
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 Allan Zaremberg Contribution: $$$$$$ |
Zaremberg is president of the California Chamber of Commerce. He wants to slap teachers, nurses, firefighters and police with new government restrictions that don't apply to the corporations he represents. In fact, he is opposed to applying those restrictions on corporations saying, "It would be inappropriate to deny them the ability to participate in the political process.We have no proof that Zaremberg has ever worked as a public school teacher, but what a lesson he could teach in hypocrisy. [Los Angeles Times, 7/29/05] |
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 A. Jerrold Perenchio Contribution: $250,000 |
Perenchio is Chairman and CEO of Univision and is on the Forbes list of the world's richest people with a net worth of $2.3 billion. Perenchio has given Schwarzenegger's committees $2.25 million, in addition to $1 million in support of school vouchers through Prop 38. Perenchio also gave $45,000 to Proposition 226, the predecessor to Prop 75. Additionally, Perenchio is a Bush Pioneer. [www.forbes.com] [California Secretary of State] [www.whitehouseforsale.org] |
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 David Booth Contribution: $25,000 |
David Booth is co-chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm that handles more than $1 million of Governor Schwarzenegger's investments. Booth is a major contributor to Schwarzenegger, the Small Business Action Committee and Prop. 75. As an investment advisor to Schwarzenegger, Mr. Booth must have his hands full with the constant stream of royalties from "Jingle All The Way" and "Kindergarten Cop". We're pretty sure that this leaves him little time to work as a nurse or a firefighter. [Schwarzenegger Statement of Economic Interests dated 5/25/04] [California Secretary of State] |
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 Joel Fox Contribution: $555,000 |
Joel Fox heads the deceptively named Small Business Action Committee. Its donors include some of the richest people and companies in California, including Frank Baxter, Robin P. Arkley II, and Ameriquest. The top eight donors accounted for 99% of the money SBAC raised in 2005, $555,000 of which went to Yes on Prop. 75. Fox must have been a good math student, but we have no evidence he ever worked as a math teacher. [California Secretary of State; www.sbaction.org ] |
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 Stephen F. Bollenbach Contribution: $1,000 |
Bollenbach is the Co-Chair and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation. He earned over $25 million last year in stock options, approximately 750 times the amount a starting teacher earns. [Los Angeles Times, 5/31/05] |
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 B. Wayne Hughes Contribution: $100,000 |
Hughes is the CEO of Public Storage, Inc, which owns 1,400 storage facilities in 37 states. Hughes made a $1 million contribution to Schwarzenegger's California Recovery Team in July. Though he probably depends on firefighters to protect his storage facilities from bursting into flames, we do not believe that he has ever served as a firefighter. [Associated Press, 7/21/05] |
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 Paul Folino Contribution: $5,000 |
Folino is Chairman and CEO of Emulex Corporation. Folino is a member of the New Majority and has contributed $1.5 million to Schwarzenegger's political career. We've been digging, but we don't have any evidence that Mr. Folino ever worked as a nurse. |
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 Angelo Mozilo Contribution: $2,000 |
Mozilo is the CEO of Countrywide Financial, which is the nation's largest lender. Mozilo is one of the highest paid executives in California - in 2005, he was paid $57 million, making him one of the top ten highest paid CEOs in the country. [Los Angeles Times, 7/27/05] [www.forbes.com] |
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 Howard Ahmanson Contribution: $30,000 |
Howard Ahmanson, heir to Home Savings and Loan (now Washington Mutual), is an extreme radical, having "argued that the Bible opposes minimum wage laws.ퟘ According to The Los Angeles Times, he was also "a force behind California's 1993 voucher fight.ퟘ Ahmanson gave $98,000 to Prop.75's predecessor, Prop. 226. Despite our best efforts, we could not find any evidence that he ever worked as a nurse here in California. [Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 2000] [Los Angeles Times, 3/22/98] [Ventura County Star, 5/27/98] |