AND from the Washington Post story....
Although Sterling is a registered Republican he has supported Democratic candidates in the past. He gave
$5,000 to Gray Davis' gubernatorial campaign in 2002, and
$1,000 in support of a group pushing for Proposition 2 in 2008, which sought to give farm animals larger living quarters. He gave another $1,000 to Davis in 1991, a year when he also gave
$1,000 to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. In 1989, he gave $2,000 to former basketball player and Democratic senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley. If Republicans wanted to go really deep, they could also mention that Sterling attended the wedding of
Jeff Greene in 2007, who ran in the 2010 Democratic Senate primaries in Florida -- to disastrous result.
In 2009, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP gave Sterling a
Lifetime Achievement Award, and he won the NAACP Presidents Award in 2008. His 2009 award coincided with Baylor's lawsuit. The NAACP chapter's president
told the Los Angeles Times, "We can't speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community." He was scheduled to receive another Lifetime Achievement Award this week, but the chapter changed its mind.
Seems ahe might have been a Registered Rep. BUT ghe sure didn't ACT or spend his money on them!
Donald Sterling is a Republican and has given money to Democrats. His politics don?t matter.