Speaker Brown Lists $1.2 Million in Campaign Cash : Governor’s Political Unit Reports Collecting $218,274

Gov. George Deukmejian’s political action committee has collected $218,274 in campaign contributions this year and spent about all of it, state records showed Wednesday.

Established last year to promote Deukmejian and his policies, the governor’s Citizens for Common Sense has 26,000 member-contributors.

The governor, who is still pondering whether or not to seek a third term as the state’s chief executive in 1990, also has a separate campaign committee. But as of Wednesday, that committee’s report had not been received by the secretary of state’s office.

Filing Deadline

The deadline for filing contribution and expenditure reports for the period from Jan. 1 to March 17 was Tuesday midnight.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) reported he had $1.2 million in campaign cash as of mid-March, $293,185 of it raised this year.

Senate President Pro Tem David A. Roberti (D-Los Angeles) reported he had $610,877 in the bank, $296,660 coming in 1988 contributions.

Most of the $218,274 received by governor’s Citizens for Common Sense was from contributions of $100 or less, said Brian Lungren, executive director of the committee and a former Administration official. The average contribution was $17. The committee reported it has spent $208,127.

Lungren, younger brother of Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-Long Beach), whom the governor unsuccessfully tried to get confirmed as state treasurer, said the organization last month generated 5,000 letters to state legislators, 2,000 telephone calls, and 680 local endorsements on behalf of the treasurer nominee.

Other Objectives

Brian Lungren said future group activities might include drumming up legislative support for Deukmejian’s 1988-89 state spending program and his proposed $1-billion transportation bond issue.

The largest individual contribution to Citizens for Common Sense was $1,100 from John Garabedian, a Fresno farmer. The biggest single expenditure was $79,500 that went to a Sacramento computerized direct mailing firm.

Speaker Brown, who started out this year with $1.3 million in the bank, got $30,000 from the CalFarm Insurance Co., $14,000 from the California Applicant Attorneys Assn., $10,000 from the California Chiropractic Assn., and $10,000 from Concord home builder Ken H. Hofmann.

Brown also collected big contributions from Assembly Democratic colleagues who are expected to have easy reelection races this year. For instance, Assemblyman Johan Klehs (D-San Leandro), chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, gave $48,000 to Brown.

On the expenditure side, the Speaker paid $77,700 to Marlene Bane, the wife of Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Tom Bane (D-Tarzana), who arranges most of his fund-raising dinners.

Aid for an Ally

He also gave $54,600 to Democrat John Burton of San Francisco, a former lower house ally and close friend, who is running in a contested special election race to replace former Assemblyman Art Agnos, recently elected mayor of San Francisco.

Senate President Pro Tem Roberti’s contributions included $10,000 from the California Medical Assn., $7,500 from the California Optometric Assn., $5,000 from the California Correctional Pea1667571791California Trial Lawyers Assn., and $5,000 from the California Teachers Assn.

Roberti gave $25,000 to Sen. Daniel Boatwright (D-Concord), who is opposed by Contra Costa County Supervisor Sunne McPeak for renomination in the June Democratic primary election.

The Assembly Republican Political Action Committee, controlled by Minority Leader Pat Nolan of Glendale, reported it had $232,835 in cash on hand and $383,664 in contributions since January 1.

Big contributors included $16,500 from Thomas G. Somermeier Jr. of Beverly Hills, $15,000 from Joseph Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, $10,000 from William and Jaquelin Hume of San Francisco, $5,000 from Dow Chemical Corp., and $5,000 from Karl Karcher of Anaheim.

Senate Minority Leader Ken Maddy of Fresno reported $549,012 cash in the bank and $155,222 in contributions since Jan. 1, including $10,000 from the California Business Properties Assn., $5,000 from Atlantic Richfield Co., $5,000 from the California Medical Assn., and $5,000 from the Beer Wholesalers Fund.