Term limit measure gets money

An initiative campaign to modify state lawmakers' term limits has raised more than $2.8 million from Indian tribes, insurance companies, labor unions, drug companies and other interests that lobby at the Capitol. AP in the San Diego Union.

Fifteen contributors have given at least $100,000, according to campaign finance records available Tuesday.

The proposed ballot measure, which is intended for the Feb. 5 presidential primary ballot, would shorten from 14 to 12 the maximum number of years someone could serve in the Legislature under normal circumstances. But it also would allow dozens of lawmakers facing term limits next year or in 2010 to run for re-election.

The measure's proponents announced last week that they had collected 1.1 million signatures. They need valid signatures of about 700,000 registered voters to qualify the proposal.