May 20, 2008 - 20:06

Both sides of Propostion 98 exchange fire over funding sources

The campaign seeking to head off Proposition 98, a statewide measure appearing on the June 3 ballot that aims to limit the government’s ability to seize private property and that would phase out rent control, has unveiled a list of more than 500 individual mobile park and apartment owners who have contributed to the Yes on Proposition 98 campaign.

The release of the list is part of a broader strategy on the part of No on 98: To portray the measure as benefitting of moneyed, landlord interests and contrary to the needs of tenants. “Five hundred of California’s wealthiest landlords have reached into their deep pockets to fund this deceptive scheme,” said Dean Preston, the co-chair of the Coalition to Protect California Renters. “From the beginning, there has been no doubt that Prop. 98 was written by landlords, paid for by landlords, for the sole financial benefit of landlords.”

Marko Mlikotin, a spokesman for Yes on 98, did not dispute that the effort had the support of private property owners. “We make no bones that our measure if funded by private property owners,” he said.

But Milkotin also said that Yes on 98 had been open and transparent in disclosing the source of its funding – unlike, he said, the opposing efforts, which had concealed its funding in “major donor” accounts and was using public taxpayer dollars.

Kathy Fairbanks, a spokeswoman for No on 98, shot back that the funding was non-public and said the charges were “politically motivated” and designed to divert the attention of voters.

The No on 98 campaign is supporting an alternative measure, Proposition 99, that does not include the rent control component and is less restrictive in allowing governmental seizure.

Alex Isenstadt is a Politicker.com Reporter and can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

Related topics: Proposition 98

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