FCBlog puts up more Pasadena contributions

Centinel over at the Foothill Cities blog is at it again, this time putting up campaign finance breakdowns and visualizations for Jacque Robinson and Steve Madison.

Centinel points out that an interesting number of Robinson's contributions come from outside the Pasadena area, some even from outside the state (that puts Bogaard's single outside contribution from Colorado in perspective). He also finds that, as is usually the case, many of the donors do not list their occupation, hence the large chunks of donors whose occupations are unknown. This has been the norm for me in researching 460s from Glendale to Glendora; it seems like there are no penalties for contributors not listing their occupation. I've never heard of a complaint to the Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's campaign policing agency, alleging a lack of listed occupations on 460 forms. I guess in most cases it doesn't matter what the contributor does -- unless of course they work for a major developer or other entity with business in the city, which is why it should be mandatory for those fields to be filled out.

Another interesting example from Madison's forms: he received $1,000 from Berkshire-Hathaway's Charlie Munger, who is worth nearly $2 billion. Munger was one of Madison's top 10 contributors. Of course to him, dropping a grand is like buying a cup o' java.