New Majority Organization

A television ad campaign portrayed as an independent effort to help Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been bankrolled partly by a group with deep ties to his political operation. An official with the New Majority, a Southern California Republican group at the core of Schwarzenegger's fundraising apparatus, said its members have given about $1 million to the Washington, D.C., business group that is the public face of the ads: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

It's 4 a.m. as Paul Folino begins his weekday routine of slamming two days' work into one. He reads the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times, then hops online to catch the East Coast news. By then, it's nearly 7 a.m. and time to leave for work. Often, he isn't back at his Coto de Caza home for 16 hours. In addition to running Emulex, a $1.

A group of wealthy, moderate Orange County Republicans, formed five years ago to supplant the party's powerful cadre of social conservatives, has a new target: overwhelmingly Democratic and liberal Los Angeles County. The New Majority -- whose members include Donald Bren and Paul Folino, the chief executives of the Irvine Co. and Emulex Corp.