LBReport.com Learns L.A County Business Federation PAC (BizfedPAC) Spent $4,600 To Run Today's Election Day Front Page PT Ad Supporting Watkins & Kawasaki
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(April 10, 2012) -- Who wants John Watkins and Lillian Kawasaki on the Long Beach City Council to the extent that they spent $4,600 on an election-day front page ad in today's (April 10) Long Beach PressTelegram?
The Los Angeles County Business Federation's Political Action Committee (BizFedPAC) did. Who is the BizFedPAC? Like the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce PAC (which is a separate entity, legally and fiscally from the LB Chamber as a membership body), we don't know. To our knowledge, BizFedPAC hasn't publicly disclosed who decides which candidates it chooses to support and oppose. However the L.A. County Business Federation as a separate membership group has a very public website. It says the Business Federation's charter is "to effectively mobilize the collective - and cooperative - voice and volume of all the existing advocacy organizations, trade groups and economic development organizations, representing tens of thousands of businesses across every corner of our County, on business and policy issues that affect the economic vitality and quality of life in our county and its cities." To read its full self-description, click here. The L.A. Business Federations officers (full list here) include incoming chair LaDonna DiCamillo, Gov't Affairs Director for BNSF Railway. Ms. DiCamillo is also listed as VP of Public Policy for the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (listed on its Board of Directors webpage). The L.A. Business Federation's current chair is John Kelsall, who's been president/CEO of the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce since 2005. He was also a founding member of BizFed.
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