Ex-State Senator Don Perata, who is running for mayor of Oakland, also has been moonlighting as “a consultant” for the state’s powerful prison guards’ union. According to campaign finance reports, a prison guards’ union campaign committee paid Perata at least $40,000 earlier this year. The committee also paid Perata’s close friend and advisor Sandi Polka more than $40,000, plus $100,000 to a committee she helps operate. In addition, the prison guards’ union committee cut a $50,000 check earlier this year to an Alameda-based non-profit of which Perata is president of the board of directors.
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