Update: Fully 100 Percent of Measure S Money Comes From Allvision

By Mike Devlin

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We reported earlier this week that half of all money donated to the Yes on Measure S campaign could be tied directly to Allvision, the company that would stand to make millions of dollars if Measure S passes. Thanks to the LinkedIn skills of SCVTalk reader Brook, we can now confirm that fully 100% of the campaign donations to Yes on Measure S can be tied directly to Allvision.

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On top of the already established 50% of donations that came from the family of Allvision CEO Greg Smith, the remaining 50% came from husband and wife Robert Horwitz and Catherine Redlich of New York. Their connection to Allvision was unclear, but on Horwitz's LinkedIn profile (not fully accessible to the public, or Google) he states that he's on Allvision's board of directors.

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Oddly, the Yes on Measure S campaign has been claiming that they're funded by local community leaders (0% comes from California, much less Santa Clarita) and not Allvision (100% comes from Allivision families).

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Full disclosure: in recent weeks, I've volunteered a few hours for the No on Measure S campaign. I've all but sworn off campaigns, so this is unusual for me. My writing here is not an extension of that volunteer work, but you should be clear on where I stand on the issue. Also, the lead image is a parody, if you haven't guessed.

Comments (11)

Ruth DeLaVerdadFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 10:49 am

Nearly 99.3% of opposition funding has been provided by the Clear Channel Billboard Blight Company funneled through the California Billboard Blight Association. Perhaps this will be further explained in the next story on this measure. Hypocrisy hy·poc·ri·sy həˈpäkrəsē/ noun The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:07 am

The outdoor industry funded the signature gathering, but is not funding the opposition campaign.

MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:12 am

Mentioned here as far back as May: http://www.santaclarita.com/blog/view.php? I should also add that this would hardly be worthy of mention if Allvision didn't go to such lengths to conceal the source of donations and duck advertising disclosure requirements, and if the Yes campaign hadn't been claiming that they've been funded by people in this community (completely false) and not Allvision (also false).

Ruth DeLaVerdadFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:29 am

Up above you lump in the outside funding used for blocking, but then you carve out the outside funding for signature gathering. Clever. In fact, here would be no referendum without the outside funding for signature gathering, so the santimonious effort to claim funding purity rings hollow to anyone informed on this issue.

MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:50 am

Where are they lumped together? The only mention of the figures are in the graphic and the two stages are listed separately, not to mention that the proportions, 50% and 50%, are the same no matter which way you look at it.

BertaFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:49 am

Interestingly truthful Ruth I have also not seen Devlin or any of the opposition make any mention that Clear Channel and CBS have SUED many cities to FORCE them to allow THEIR digital billboards, and are the worst offenders up and down the state! ANY deal with those entities would surely involve digital billboards too but they never talk about that! Or mention campaign contributions to "their" local candidates/supporters. Isn't Al Ferdman the treasurer of the No on S campaign?

MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:59 am

Berta, if it matters, I think Clear Channel is a bigger concern than Allvision because of the tactics you mention. I don't trust them one bit. And as far as I can tell, Al Ferdman was named Treasurer of the original PAC after the signature gathering, but that PAC has been all but inactive since then. The group actively campaigning against Measure S, which is the group I did a few hours of volunteering for, is the one run by Petz and Barlavi, which has a tiny budget and is not affiliated with the outdoor industry – which is why their material have been decidedly anti-digital billboard. I helped for three reasons: for the campaign they're outmatched more than 20 to 1 in money, I was put off by the dishonesty in communications from the Yes campaign and most importantly, they aren't backed by the billboard industry.

Coastal SageSaturday, November 1st, 2014 at 7:26 pm

I'm feeling particularly old tonight, remembering that way back in 1978, when local initiatives and to a lesser extent referendums, became very popular, my boss at a big law firm decided that I was going to be the firm's designee to learn all the law and keep up on the litigation on that topics. I think I went to every State Bar seminar in Southern California on initiatives and referendums between 1978 and 1992. During that time, the initiative battles got very wild and wooly at the local level, in large part because an Orange County home builder (now deceased) was so morally and philosophically opposed to "other people interfering" with his real estate, he dumped a ton of money into groups what would litigate local ballot measure issues both before and after the elections. Around 1992 I started to learn real estate related Chapter 11 bankruptcy (yawn) and stopped paying attention to what was going on in the "California Ballot Measure" world. Now that Santa Clarita is having a hotly contested ballot measure, with lots of money having been spent on both sides, I've started looking at the newer Court of Appeals cases relating to local (as opposed to state) ballot measures. I have friends on both side of the Santa Clarita referendum, so I won't take sides. However, what I can say I will be very surprised if the disputes over Measure S end on Tuesday night. Stay tuned for another shoe to drop, or two or three.

David BarlaviSaturday, November 1st, 2014 at 8:21 pm

Where is our awesome NO on S picture Mike? Lol www.NOonScv.org

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Ruth DeLaVerdadFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 10:49 am
Nearly 99.3% of opposition funding has been provided by the Clear Channel Billboard Blight Company funneled through the California Billboard Blight Association. Perhaps this will be further explained in the next story on this measure. Hypocrisy hy·poc·ri·sy həˈpäkrəsē/ noun The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.
MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:07 am
The outdoor industry funded the signature gathering, but is not funding the opposition campaign.
MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:12 am
Mentioned here as far back as May: http://www.santaclarita.com/blog/view.php? I should also add that this would hardly be worthy of mention if Allvision didn't go to such lengths to conceal the source of donations and duck advertising disclosure requirements, and if the Yes campaign hadn't been claiming that they've been funded by people in this community (completely false) and not Allvision (also false).
Ruth DeLaVerdadFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:29 am
Up above you lump in the outside funding used for blocking, but then you carve out the outside funding for signature gathering. Clever. In fact, here would be no referendum without the outside funding for signature gathering, so the santimonious effort to claim funding purity rings hollow to anyone informed on this issue.
MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:50 am
Where are they lumped together? The only mention of the figures are in the graphic and the two stages are listed separately, not to mention that the proportions, 50% and 50%, are the same no matter which way you look at it.
BertaFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:49 am
Interestingly truthful Ruth I have also not seen Devlin or any of the opposition make any mention that Clear Channel and CBS have SUED many cities to FORCE them to allow THEIR digital billboards, and are the worst offenders up and down the state! ANY deal with those entities would surely involve digital billboards too but they never talk about that! Or mention campaign contributions to "their" local candidates/supporters. Isn't Al Ferdman the treasurer of the No on S campaign?
MikeFriday, October 31st, 2014 at 11:59 am
Berta, if it matters, I think Clear Channel is a bigger concern than Allvision because of the tactics you mention. I don't trust them one bit. And as far as I can tell, Al Ferdman was named Treasurer of the original PAC after the signature gathering, but that PAC has been all but inactive since then. The group actively campaigning against Measure S, which is the group I did a few hours of volunteering for, is the one run by Petz and Barlavi, which has a tiny budget and is not affiliated with the outdoor industry – which is why their material have been decidedly anti-digital billboard. I helped for three reasons: for the campaign they're outmatched more than 20 to 1 in money, I was put off by the dishonesty in communications from the Yes campaign and most importantly, they aren't backed by the billboard industry.
Coastal SageSaturday, November 1st, 2014 at 7:26 pm
I'm feeling particularly old tonight, remembering that way back in 1978, when local initiatives and to a lesser extent referendums, became very popular, my boss at a big law firm decided that I was going to be the firm's designee to learn all the law and keep up on the litigation on that topics. I think I went to every State Bar seminar in Southern California on initiatives and referendums between 1978 and 1992. During that time, the initiative battles got very wild and wooly at the local level, in large part because an Orange County home builder (now deceased) was so morally and philosophically opposed to "other people interfering" with his real estate, he dumped a ton of money into groups what would litigate local ballot measure issues both before and after the elections. Around 1992 I started to learn real estate related Chapter 11 bankruptcy (yawn) and stopped paying attention to what was going on in the "California Ballot Measure" world. Now that Santa Clarita is having a hotly contested ballot measure, with lots of money having been spent on both sides, I've started looking at the newer Court of Appeals cases relating to local (as opposed to state) ballot measures. I have friends on both side of the Santa Clarita referendum, so I won't take sides. However, what I can say I will be very surprised if the disputes over Measure S end on Tuesday night. Stay tuned for another shoe to drop, or two or three.
David BarlaviSaturday, November 1st, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Where is our awesome NO on S picture Mike? Lol www.NOonScv.org
DevillierThursday, November 13th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
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