By Matt Potter / San Diego Reader / May 22, 2024
Dark money assets and Toni Atkins
A $50,000 donor to the California ballot measure committee run by state Senate Democrat Toni Atkins of San Diego has been told by lawyers for the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission to stop withholding information about her potentially lucrative portfolio of real estate assets within the coastal zone.
As first reported here in September, 2022, San Francisco-based developer Susan Lowenberg made her five-figure contribution on September 1 of that year to the Atkins political fund, then aimed at the ultimately successful passage of pro-abortion Prop 1, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor appointed Lowenberg to the state Coastal Commission on December 14 of last year. …
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