Drug Firms Gave Money to Some Who Endorsed Proposition 78

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what a surprise...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pharma4nov04,0,3284896.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Drug Firms Gave Money to Some Who Endorsed Proposition 78
By Dan Morain, Times Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — The nation's drug makers have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to political leaders and civil rights groups that have endorsed the industry's initiative on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The measure, Proposition 78, would avert state caps on the price of prescription drugs. Those embracing it while taking the industry's money include the conservative Traditional Values Coalition, an emergency-room physician in Los Angeles, the California arm of the NAACP and the Mexican American Political Assn.

The drug industry's campaign also has given $100,000 to Voter Education and Registration Action, a campaign committee that has distributed mailers supporting the drug industry's position.

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The drug manufacturers have spent about $76 million so far in favor of Proposition 78 and against Proposition 79, a competing measure pushed by organized labor and some consumer groups.

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1. I noticed on my San Diego "C.O.P.S." brochure...

that they'd "asterisked" the props and candidates they'd endorsed which indicated "outside" sponsorship. Of course their "Yes" on 78 and "No" on 79 were asterisked, as well as their endorsements of Jerry Sanders.