[Liz]

Lockyer bankrolled his wife’s campaign for supervisor with $1.5 million from his own campaign coffers, a practice political watchdogs haves tried to end. “It’s a priority of ours that we can see and track where all our money’s going,” Common Cause’s Phillip Ung said. “I can’t point to another instance where that amount of money has been used in a local race,” Ung said.

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WHERE DID MR L GET THE MONEY TO BACK THE WIFE? IS HE THAT WELL-PAID? Bill Lockyer donated $1.1 million to his wife's campaign, which allowed her to outspend her opponents.

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Here's some popular campaign funding frauds:

* Instructing a campaign volunteer to forge the handwriting of campaign donors on donor contribution forms required by the Campaign Finance Board.

* Offering to reimburse an individual for a donation to the campaign.

* Instructing campaign volunteers, and others, not to accept consecutively numbered money orders as donations to evade detection about shady donations.

* Discussing ways to conceal information about bundlers.

* Working closely with bundlers on fund-raising events in which donors were illegally reimbursed for their contributions.

* Impeding investigations by failing to produce subpoenaed records in an apparent attempt to evade detection.

[Liz]

Another episode of “Democrats in Crotchville.”