From box seats to concert tickets: California lawmakers were showered with more than $810,000 in gifts last year.
California lawmakers were showered with more than $810,000 in gifts last year, many from powerful interest groups lobbying the state who handed out concert and professional sports tickets, spa treatments, gourmet dinners and trips to a dozen countries, new state reports show.
Former Assemblyman Dante Acosta reported accepting a luxury box seat worth $615 to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers play the Boston Red Sox in the World Series from a group called Communities for California Cardrooms, whose board of directors is made up of casino operators. Acosta lost his bid for reelection in November.
Other lawmakers were treated to a weekend at the golf resort in Pebble Beach, Calif., on the dime of the Assn. of California Life and Health Insurance Companies, while the California Charter Schools Assn. paid expenses for 19 lawmakers it invited to attend a symposium in La Jolla. Those who accepted travel expenses of $800 or more included Assembly members Heath Flora , Devon Mathis and Marie Waldron .
Gipson was among several other lawmakers who also were part of the legislative delegation to Chile and the Netherlands.The latter two trips were paid for by the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy, a nonprofit group partly financed by the oil and telecommunications industries and construction labor groups. The organization’s board of directors includes executives from PG&E, Southern California Edison, Shell Energy North America, Western States Petroleum Assn.
Lawmakers received about $2,600 each for expenses to attend the annual conference at a luxury resort.
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