Kimball Petition Management
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Kimball Petition Management, or KPM, is a petition drive management firm located in California. It is owned by Fred Kimball, who founded the company in 1984 with his brother, Kelly. Fred Kimball was profiled in a 1998 article, "Collecting Signatures for a Price" in the Washington Post. According to that article's author, David Broder, the modern signature-collecting business was started by Fred Kimball's father in the 1960s. Broder also maintains that Kimball Petition Management is a "favorite of the teachers and unions, trial lawyers and gaming interests."[1]
Position on initiative rights
In July 2006, Kimball argued against legislative proposals in California to forbid paying petitioners by the signature.[2]
Petition drives conducted by KPM
2008
- California Proposition 11 (2008), $2,332,988. Payments to KPM for this petition drive came from two separate committees.[3],[4],[5]
- California Proposition 93 (2008). $2,239,537 was paid to Kimball Petition Management.[6]
2006
- California Proposition 82 (2006). $1,598,513 was paid to KPM.[7]
- California Proposition 84 (2006). $1,043,484 was paid to KPM.[8]
- California Proposition 87 (2006). $2,217,617 was paid to KPM[9]
2005
- California Proposition 79 (2005). $4,635,466 was paid to KPM.[10]
- California Proposition 80 (2005). $4,839,466 was paid to KPM.[11]
1996
- California Proposition 217 (1996). $207,521 was paid to KPM.[12]
Petition drives for failed/withdrawn initiatives
According to Mike Antonucci, writing in 2005, the California Teachers Association "keeps paying Kimball's firm to go out and gather signatures for the same ballot initiative, which it then drops once the signatures are gathered. For the second time in 16 months, CTA spent millions in member money for signatures on a petition to place a commercial property tax hike on the state ballot – this time for June 2006 – only to ditch the idea with a lame cover story."[13]
External links
- Kimball Petition Management website of the firm.
References
- ↑ Washington Post, "Collecting Signatures for a Price", April 12, 1988
- ↑ Lawmakers try to reform signature gathering, July 21, 2006
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Voters First
- ↑ Expenditure detail for the California Dream Team
- ↑ The governor, the money, and Prop. 11
- ↑ Expenditures by 'Yes on 93'
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Yes on 82
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Yes on 84
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Yes on 87
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Yes on 79
- ↑ Expenditure detail for Yes on 80
- ↑ Public employee unions fuel Proposition 217 campaign
- ↑ Education Intelligence Agency, "Union members pay $2.1 million for dropped CTA initiative", August 8, 2005
