California Building Industry Association

And now he's given it to me as a gift to use in presentations.

But I gave the opening keynote at the California Building Industry Association's conference back in July.

This is the Home Builders of California.

And I met someone there, John Galante of AE Ventures, writes about this stuff.

But I noticed that when I dug in a little bit more into the pro and anti camps, I actually found a few surprises.

Oh, like what? So, well, you know, the California Building Industry Association supports the prop, which isn't surprising.

But you might think, okay, then labor unions are probably going to be into it because they can get more work.

But they actually oppose Prop 45.

California Republican Party, California Hospital Association, California Council for Affordable Housing, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

California LULAC, L-U-L-A-C, and California Building Industry Association.

So what, how do they benefit? How do organizations like that benefit?

Well, you know that the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party and all, they're just about the money.

And that's what happened in 1988.

There was Prop 68, which was backed by Common Cause and some good government groups.

And it would have created contribution limits, plus allowed for public financing.

Then there was another competing thing that was Prop 73 that had a contribution limit provision, but it actually had a ban on transfers between candidates and a prohibition on using public money for campaigns.

Yeah.

So behind it are, you know, the California Chamber of Commerce.

And then, you know, there's some other groups, the California Building Industry Association, the Association of General Contractors, no surprise there, the Business Roundtable.

You know, we've had some folks there, you know, Rob Lapsley, we had on, the Hospital Association.