A California journalist ponders why millions of dollars are being spent in the state's general election since the state's election will be quite uneventful.
As California gets ready for the November 6 election, the state's influence on the presidential race will be very small, but millions of dollars are still being poured into the state's election. Dan Walters of The Sacramento Bee says there are some factors that point to why millions are being spent this year on political campaigns in The Golden State.
"California is a backwater in this year's presidential race -- nothing's happening in this state," the columnist tells OneNewsNow. "The U.S. Senate race is a joke. Everybody knows Dianne Feinstein is going to win. But that hasn't stopped people from spending tens of millions of dollars, maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars, on political campaigns in California this year.
"One reason is that the state has new congressional legislative districts, so there's some fierce races on those levels going on all over the state."
Walters asserts that big money is going toward the state's ballot measures.
An Arizona-based group recently donated $11 million to fight Governor Jerry Brown's tax initiative and to support a proposition opposing contributions to candidates using payroll deductions.