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...contributions from corporate PACs to $5,000, the top-donor organizations have easily found loopholes. Philip Morris, for example, has contributed over $11,000 to Rogan. Whichever candidate wins, these corporations will expect a return on their investment in the form of votes in Congress. The voters of the 27th district will still choose which man to send to Washington. Whomever they choose, however, will represent both the district and the corporate interests that allowed him to be competitive...
...impeachment managers. With control of the House in question, these factors have turned the wide, palm-lined streets of the San Gabriel Valley north of Los Angeles into a high-profile political battlefield. The New York Times Magazine cover story two weeks ago reported the race in California's 27th Congressional district is the most expensive in history. Democratic challenger and state senator Adam Schiff and Rogan have raised a combined $10,104,475 according to Federal Election Commission numbers released Tuesday...
...finance reform is the only real solution, I'm looking forward to the race in 2002, when the district will have been safely redrawn, the national money spigot directed on other places and Monica's dress stashed safely at the bottom of a drawer. Then, the voters in the 27th district will no longer be pawns in the continued controversy over impeachment and will have to share less of their political voice with the likes of Verizon and Dreamworks...
...seat worth so much? Although the sub-headline in the Times calls the race "absurdly expensive," how much does this money affect how citizens vote? From living in California's 27th and from examining how the money is actually spent: not much. The more important question in this particular election is how contributed money will affect the way the winner votes once in office. Because of the need to accept money from special interests to stay competitive with the other guy, whoever wins will be even more beholden to special interests when he takes office...
Part of the irony of the race in the 27th district is that no matter who is elected this year, the district will almost certainly go Democratic by 2002. One reason is the continued influx of minorities into Los Angeles County. Indeed, the Census Bureau reported in August that the 2000 census pegs "whites" in California at 49.9 percent, with minorities forming the new majority. In Los Angeles County, there has not been a majority ethnic group for over a decade. The 27th district has been no exception and has seen increases in populations of Latinos, Asians, and Armenians...