For Anyone who wondered why California only gained one congressional seat in the 2006 election, and gained nothing else, the following article will give you the straight scoop:

    http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id =5664

Art Torres, the party chair, would clearly prefer to give back $4 million in UNSPENT money on election day, so that lame-duck house speaker Fabian Nunez can wine and dine lobbyists and consultants.   He sure doesn't want to give the money to assembly district candidates because that might disrupt the cozy spoils system the CDP has with Republicans (The CDP gave money to only 2 out of 32 challengers in Republican-held AD seats).  Bob Mulholland, the welfare queen of the Sacramento consultant aristocracy, encapsulates the CDP thinking best when he expresses this tender concern for Republican campaign budgets:

    "As soon as you send in 10 or 20 or 50 thousand dollars],
      the other side says `Incoming!' and they pour the money in."

Gosh, we sure don't want Republicans to WORK to win their seats, do we?   Better to let them win!