SEIU GIVES $15,000—CTA Gives $10,000—Munger Gives $597,982 to California Republican Party

The SEIU openly states it wants to take over the Republican Party in California and its candidates and office holders. The CTA announces “their” Republican want limited government, low taxes, but find a need to support billions in new taxes “for a good cause”.

What does the SEIU think of the Republican Party? They want to take it over. “The union says 87,000 of its 700,000 members are registered Republicans. With redrawn legislative boundaries looming and the creation of the top-two primary system, SEIU’s new leader Dave Kieffer has said this is the perfect time to start helping candidates to extricate themselves from the grip of party extremists. SEIU is expected to launch its second ad campaign this weekend in the districts of current GOP legislators its officials believe could support Brown’s tax package.

What does the California Teachers Association believe? They love taxes, “Even ‘no tax’ Republicans see the importance of Prop. 30 funding initiative to education

Measure is expected to generate $9 billion for schools and colleges

Bradley Reynolds is a lifelong Republican, but come November, he will part ways with his political party and cast his vote for Proposition 30, an initiative that will raise taxes on the wealthy in California and implement a sales tax. “

For the first time in a generation, both the CTA and SEIU have donated to the California Republican Party—what do you think?

Teachers union, SEIU open wallets to California Republican Party

Sacramento Bee, 9/26/13

One of the reasons Republicans elected Jim Brulte to be chairman of the California Republican Party earlier this year was their faith, among other things, in his ability to raise money.

The former Senate Republican leader is well connected to the donor class, and the party has raised more than $3 million so far this year.

In recent days, those contributions have included an unlikely source: public employee unions.

On Tuesday, Service Employees International Union Local 1000 donated $15,000 to the party.

A California Teachers Association political action committee donated $10,000 earlier this month. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association donated $3,000 to the party in August.

It has been years since these large public employee unions opened their wallets to the state party. The peace officers made donations in 2005 and 2007, and the teachers gave the party $10,000 in 2004.

Labor officials said Brulte has met with their members this year, and that the donations reflect a tentative effort by unions to work with the GOP.

The donations are unusual, but not large. For bigger contributions the party has Charles Munger Jr. The Republican activist on Wednesday donated another $597,982 to the party.