The top 10 donors to political causes

Steve Bing, Southern California businessman... $58,050,783

Steve Poizner, state insurance commissioner,

candidate for governor ... $43,205,282

Steve Westly, former state controller, 2006

candidate for governor ... $41,728,277

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger... $25,871,398

Jerry Perenchio, former owner of Univision

Communication Inc. ... $23,267,738

Meg Whitman, candidate for governor... $19,642,200

Angelo Tsakopoulos, Sacramento-area

developer... $15,795,379

John Doerr, Silicon Valley venture capitalist ... $15,347,847

Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix ... $13,412,315

Bill Simon, 2002 candidate for governor... $10,308,214

Total ... $266,629,433

Source: Fair Political Practices Commission, www.fppc.ca.gov