Advertisement
Politi-Cal

Harry Reid to hit up California for cash

By Evan Halper
Share

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

Congress may not be in the mood to do much to help California out of its budget mess, but that isn’t stopping prominent lawmakers from looking to the state to keep their campaign coffers full.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will make the rounds this month. Fundraiser invitations obtained by the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation show he’ll be hitting up donors for cash at a breakfast at the luxurious Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco, hosted by the son of former mayor Joseph Alioto, as well as a cocktail party in that city hosted by real estate tycoon George Marcus.

Advertisement

Then he’ll swing down south for cocktails in Bel-Air, at the home of Santa Monica attorney Bruce Broillet, who had been a big donor to presidential candidate John Edwards.

-- Evan Halper in Sacramento

Politi-Cal
Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

Advertisement