BIG BUCKS BACK ISSUES 2 FINANCIERS OPEN WALLETS TO SUPPORT 3 BALLOT MEASURES

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: September 5, 2002| Author: Burt Hubbard and Nancy Mitchell ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS | Copyright information

The two financiers behind three statewide ballot measures pumped more of their own money into the campaigns last month.

Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind the measure to virtually eliminate bilingual education in the state's public schools, loaned an additional $75,000 to that campaign. That brings his loans to more than $350,000 at 0 percent interest.

Businessman Rutt Bridges gave another $100,000 to the ballot measures his Bighorn Ballot Action center got on the No...

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