Will California’s new attorney general, Rob Bonta, carry on one of the more unsavory customs of his predecessors? The state’s gambling interests have a few hundred thousand dollars that says he will.
Bonta, one of three politicians elevated to nominally elective offices by Gov. Gavin Newsom this year, has to persuade voters to let him keep the job next year. The former Alameda assemblyman has already raised more than half a million dollars toward that, and as Politico reported, casinos, card rooms and other gambling interests accounted for most of it.
The industry has plenty of reasons to put money on the attorney general, whose department includes the Bureau of Gambling Control.
