<!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ --></p> <p>From <a href=""https://calmatters.org/author/jeremia-kimelman/"" title=""Posts" by="" jeremia="" kimelman="" class=""author" url="" fn="" rel=""author"">Jeremiah kimmelman</a>Calmness</p> <figure> <img decoding="async" width=""1200"" height=""800"" src=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/093025-PROP-50-FINANCING-1-GH-CM.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1"" class=""attachment-post-thumbnail" size-post-thumbnail="" wp-post-image="" alt=""Photo" collage="" of="" images="" about="" prop="" including="" gavin="" newsom="" people="" holding="" on="" signs="" redistricting="" maps="" the="" ca="" state="" capitol="" and="" a="" vote="" by="" mail="" notice="" decoding=""async"" srcset=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/093025-PROP-50-FINANCING-1-GH-CM.jpg?w=2000&ssl=1" https:="" sizes=""(max-width:"/><figcaption>Illustration by Gabriel Hongsduzit, Calmatters</figcaption></figure> <p>This story was originally published by <a href=""https://calmatters.org/"">Calmatters</a>S <a href=""https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/"">Register</a> about their ballots.</p> <p>With five weeks until the day of election, the struggle for changing Congresses in California in favor of the Democrats has already become one of the most expensive voting measures in the state history of the country.</p> <p>Official campaigns, supporting and opposing the proposal of governor Gavin News, announced that they raised over $ 215 million as of October 2, with over $ 100 million raised in September alone – the third bigger part of each proposal for at least the past decade. Campaigns only spent more money on prop. 22 in 2020, which would change the employment status of Lyft and Uber drivers, and prop. 27 in 2022, which would legalize online gambling.</p> <p><iframe title=""Prop." is="" already="" the="" third="" most-expensive="" ballot="" measure="" in="" california="" history="" aria-label=""Bar" chart="" id=""datawrapper-chart-XEUYI"" src=""https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XEUYI/4/"" scrolling=""no"" frameborder=""0"" style=""width:" min-width:="" border:="" none="" height=""321"" data-external=""1""></iframe><script type=""text/javascript""><!(CDATA(!function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data("datawrapper-height")){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data("datawrapper-height"))for(var r,i=0;r=e(i);i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data("datawrapper-height") <p>Prop Support Campaign. 50, led by Newsom, raised over $ 138 million with $ 49 million, or about 40% of the total donor, which gave less than $ 100. Most of these contributions were <a href=""https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3080243&amendid=0"">PAC has been reported by PAC</a>S Five main donors collectively contributed just over $ 25 million. They were:</p> <ul> <li><strong>$ 10 million:</strong> Pac House Mownity, Superpac, focused on the choice of Democrats in Congress;</li> <li><strong>$ 10 million:</strong> George Soros Reform Fund Funds, which focuses on drug policy and election reform according to <a href=""https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/264351242/202413199349316681/full"">IRS feeds</a>;</li> <li><strong>$ 6.9 million</strong>: <a href=""http://moveon.org/"">Moveon.org</a>Organization of liberal levels;</li> <li><strong>$ 3 million:</strong> The California Association of Teachers, a powerful union with close ties with Democrats;</li> <li><strong>$ 3 million:</strong> National Education Association, the largest union of teachers in the country who <a href=""https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-education-assn/recipients?id=D000000064"">Gives predominantly to the Democrats</a>S</li> </ul> <p>NEWSOM also transferred $ 2.6 million from its 2022 governor campaign. More than 68,000 unique associates gave money for the Yes campaign, according to Calfatters analysis of California Secretary of State.</p> <p>The groups opposed to the redistribution measure rely on two main donors, which gave more than 90% of $ 77 million raised for their campaign. They have a smaller share of small donors, raising $ 8,300 from people who gave less than $ 100. Below are the first five donors:</p> <ul> <li><strong>$ 42 million:</strong> The Congress Leadership Fund, Super PAC, controlled by the Republican leadership in Congress;</li> <li><strong>$ 33 million: </strong>Charles Mander, Jr., who contributed to the original vote measure that created the independent redistribution committee;</li> <li><strong>$ 1 million:</strong> Kevin McCarthy, a former Republican speaker of the House of US Representatives, who transferred money from his account to the campaign far less than $ 100 million <a href=""https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/15/kevin-mccarthy-reemerges-to-fight-california-redistricting-00511658?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nname=playbook-pm&nrid=728bd827-4dea-47e9-86aa-6ac883204c54&stream=top&utm_campaign=sendto_newslettertest_politics_policy&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter"">He said he would get together a few weeks ago</a>;</li> <li><strong>$ 1 million:</strong> Thomas Sibel, a billionaire businessman from Bay Area, who is linked to the first partner of California Jennifer Sibel Newsom;</li> <li><strong>$ 50,000:</strong> Republican donor Susan Grof.</li> </ul> <p>Other non -campaign groups also spend money. At least fifteen organizations spent over $ 540,000 support through AD Buys and Outreach, while at least seven groups spent over $ 570,000 in opposition.</p> <p>Newsom has proposed the vote measure after the Trump administration has pressed the state of Texas to Gerimander Congress in a way that will cast five democratic places in Republican in the upcoming intermediate elections in 2026. </p> <p>Newsom needs voter approval as the Californians have set up an independent redistribution committee through a 2008 vote. 50 will stop the cards withdrawn from this independent committee by 2030.</p> <p>This article was <a href=""https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/california-redistricting-prop50-money/"">Originally Published on CalMatters</a> and was reissued under <a href=""https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivatives</a> License.</p> <p> Copy HTML
