Dinners in Maui. Tickets to games. A free screening of “Black Panther.” A $250,000 donation to a group that funds the governor’s travel. That’s just part of the $11.8 million that soft drink companies and their lobbyists spent in the last two years.
spent $352,469, according to forms filed with the California secretary of State’s office. That’s nearly 70 % more than they spent in the previous two years.
a steak might go for $65 and a whole fried fish for $57. The lawmakers were attending a legislative retreat.The association gave 11 legislative staffers tickets to Sacramento Kings basketball games and paid for their food and drinks, at a cost ranging from $163 to $326 per staffer. It also shelled out at least $3,747 for at least 92 lawmakers, staff members and their guests to attend a showing of “Black Panther” in March 2018.
Sometimes, lawmakers seek out contributions. When state Assemblyman Adam Gray asked the beverage association to sponsor the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures, the association gave $25,000 in his name. Gray, who served as California’s representative to the meeting, said it was his responsibility to secure sponsors, and that he asked several corporations to contribute.
Along with spending $8.9 million on the statewide ballot measure, the American Beverage Assn. PAC, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola gave about $1.1 million to other statewide and local political efforts in the last two years.
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