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October 18, 2008 - 17:30
News: California
Prison guards union donates $1 million to defeat drug offender ballot measure
By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com EditorOpponents of Prop. 5, the drug offender law reform ballot measure, received a sizeable injection of money this week when the powerful California prison guard's union donated $1 million toward efforts to defeat the initiative.
Records filed with the Secretary of State's office show the 30,000-member strong California Correctional Peace Officers Association made the donation on Wednesday.
CCPOA officials made news in recent days by announcing they would abandon a high profile effort to recall Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after the group's petition paperwork filed with the Secretary of State's office was rejected for not carrying Schwarzenegger's anti-recall argument.
Related topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, CCPOA
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