Perfect Policy Storm Showers Money on Legislative Races

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The California Capitol in Sacramento. Photo by Max Whittaker/CALmatters

By Laurel Rosenhall, KQED News Fix/CALmatters

Some of the outsized money spent on California legislative races this year came pouring through the mail slot of voter Michael Johnson’s home, arriving in the form of two or three glossy ads a day in advance of the June primary.

Most of the ads weren’t from candidates. They were from interest groups that have business before the Legislature, running their own campaigns to elect a favored Assembly contender.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/CALmatters.

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