Cranston’s Fund-Raisers
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Paul Houston’s article on Sen. Alan Cranston (Part A, Oct. 22) was an excellent essay on what “chutzpah” is all about.
During the last eight years of Cranston’s (D-Calif.) senatorial tour of duty, the public debt has risen by 100% and annual deficits range from $150-200 billion (depending on who’s citing them). What is the senator doing about this fiscal farce? He is conceiving tax-free foundations to raise $7 million for the purpose of voter registration drives. His control over the funds will help his avowed objective of getting re-elected to the Senate in 1992. In the meantime, his son was employed in this project and many “trips” he made for the voter registration program were paid by the tax-free groups.
The highlight of the article noted that Cranston made a trip to Phoenix to pick up a $400,000 “contribution” from his friend Charles Keating. Keating will be able to deduct this sum on his tax return. He is the Keating who is currently under investigation for bilking taxpayers out of $2 billion while he controlled Lincoln Savings and Loan.
California voters must join me in giving Cranston the “access” he deserves in November, 1992. “Access” right out of office.
JOSEPH L. WEISS
Los Angeles
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