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Support for Proposed Oil Tax Limited To Green, Faux Slate Mailers

Amy Silverstein |
March 7, 2011 | 3:31 p.m. PST

USC Annenberg News21

Photo: Amy Silverstein
Photo: Amy Silverstein
This story is part of an ongoing special series produced by USC Annenberg News21 in partnership with KCET's SoCal Connected. Ten new media reporters explore the intersection of Big Money and Poltiics from L.A. City Hall to Sacramento to Washington D.C.

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A committee supporting a proposed oil-extraction tax for Los Angeles has spent almost all of its money so far on an unlikely pair of slate mailers, one of which was the subject of some controversy.

"The Committee To Support Measures O and P" has so far received $11,500 in contributions and spent $8,000 of that on slate mailers, according to campaign disclosure statements.

Read the rest here on the Under The Influence site of USC News21 and SoCal Connected.



 

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