Garamendi Return Insurance Donations

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California Insurance Commissioner candidate John Garamendi announced that he returned $20,000 in political donations that he claimed he erroneously received from insurance concerns in two previous campaigns. Garamendi had run for governor of California in 1994. He told the Chronicle that he recently returned the funds to three different insurance interests that had donated to that unsuccessful campaign. $10,000 was returned to Zenith Insurance of Los Angeles, $5,000 to Transamerica Occidental Insurance and $5,000 to the Robert Plan of New York. Ga...