Gross Overkill on a Supervisor’s Seat Talk about gross overkill. What else could anyone call dumping a record $2.5 million (with $1.5 million more on the way) by a special interest group, in this case Los Angeles labor unions, into the campaign kitty of State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas? The unions get away with this naked effort to buy a board seat through thinly veiled skirt-the-campaign-finance-rule-limits by funneling the cash through independent committees. It’s all perfectly legal, and it’s all perfectly a sham to nab a seat. |