Matier & Ross: Jerry Brown's campaign is funded by casinos

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State Attorney General Jerry Brown is on a fundraising roll, having collected more than $1.65 million for his gubernatorial run in the past month - with more than $1 million coming from that big Hollywood fundraiser a couple of weeks back.

But it's not just the celebrity crowd cutting checks to Brown's gubernatorial campaign. Gambling interests that his office regulates are also major donors.

Among them: the California Commerce Club Casino, $25,000; El Dorado Enterprises (owner of the Hustler Casino in Gardena), $10,000; Hollywood Park Casino (Inglewood), $13,000; Bicycle Casino (Bell Gardens), $25,000; and the Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Indians, $25,000.

Peter Morton, founder of the Hard Rock Casinos, also gave $51,000.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/02/BAK01ATEF3.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea#ixzz0YYpL1mU9

[David Zephyr]

1. Good for Jerry.

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[Auggie]

2. Great... more money to beat Republicans

:)

[itsrobert]

3. And?

It takes money to run for office. Do you expect him to have an 800 number and only take small donations from the general public?

[EFerrari]

4. Go, Jerry!

[bemildred]

5. I'll bet he gets money from progressive individual voters too, so what?

As long as it's a legal contribution, and we allow bribing of politicians under the name "campaign contribution", I see no reason to complain about Jerry being good at the game.