California owes $34 million on a voter outreach contract it can't pay for
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office has received more than $34 million worth of invoices from a consulting firm for a voter outreach campaign that the State Controller’s Office said it doesn’t have the budget authority to pay for.
In August, The Sacramento Bee first reported that Padilla’s office had awarded a contract for a voter outreach campaign called Vote Safe California to public affairs and political consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker.
The firm, which has a history of working for prominent state and national Democrats, touted itself as being on “Team Biden.” On Tuesday, the main banner on the firm’s website was a picture of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, thanking them for fighting for “the soul of the nation.” Biden for President is listed at the top of the firm’s 2020 clients. Anita Dunn, who represents the “D” in SKDK, is a top adviser to the president-elect, and was recently called the “mastermind” behind Biden’s campaign.
SKDKnickerbocker also lists working for clients in five California congressional races.
Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article247538215.html
