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November 2007

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Public Campaign Financing Legislation Passed!!!
by Voter Owned Elections 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

*Supporters of Clean Elections* ~ thanks for your calls and emails! By unanimous support of the Ethics Commission, and by a vote of 8-to-3 at the Board of Supervisors, legislation to dramatically improve the Board of Supervisors public campaign financing program passed today!!! The legislation was written and introduced by Chris Daly, co-sponsored by Aaron Peskin, and supported by Ross Mirkarimi, Bevan Dufty, Jake McGoldrick, Tom Ammiano, Sophie Maxwell, and Gerardo Sandoval. The legislation was opposed by Sean Elsbernd, Michaela Alioto-Pier, and Carmen Chu. In order to ensure future support for public campaign financing, please email the supportive Supervisors to thank them for their support, and politely email the unsupportive Supervisors to ask them to please support public campaign financing in the future. *Thank the supportive Supervisors!* Chris Daly: Chris.Daly(a)sfgov.org Aaron Peskin: Aaron.Peskin(a)sfgov.org Bevan Dufty: Bevan.Dufty(a)sfgov.org Gerardo Sandoval: Gerardo.Sandoval(a)sfgov.org Sophie Maxwell: Sophie.Maxwell(a)sfgov.org Ross Mirkarimi: Ross.Mirkarimi(a)sfgov.org Tom Ammiano: Tom.Ammiano(a)sfgov.org Jake McGoldrick: Jake.McGoldrick(a)sfgov.org *Politely ask the unsupportive Supervisors to rethink their position on public campaign financing!* Talking points: http://voterownedelections.org/improve_our_democracy.html Carmen Chu: Carmen.Chu(a)sfgov.org Sean Elsbernd: Sean.Elsbernd(a)sfgov.org Michaela Alioto-Pier: Michela.Alioto-Pier(a)sfgov.org Thanks! Rob Arnow San Franciscans for Voter Owned Elections www.voterownedelections.org 415-596-5808

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Last Chance to Email Supervisors about Public Campaign Financing Legislation!
by Voter Owned Elections 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Supporters of Clean Elections ~ *1. Need contacts to Board of Supervisors immediately! *Supervisor Dufty has expressed support for this legislation, so we're targeting other Supervisors now. Legislation to dramatically improve the Board of Supervisors public campaign financing program is going to the Board of Supervisors this Tuesday, so we need you all to email or call the Supervisors today (Monday) or early Tuesday. We need 8 out of 11 Supervisors to vote for this in order for it to pass, so we can't afford to take any chances. See below for details. *2. Proposal to raid fund has been dropped!* The proposal to remove money from the public campaign financing fund has been dropped, at least for the next few months. The Ethics hearing on the matter was cancelled, and plans to put the proposal on the February ballot were shelved. Thanks for your calls and emails! We will keep an eye on things and let you know if anything else comes up. *Need contacts to Board about legislation to dramatically improve public campaign financing program!* The Board of Supervisors public campaign financing program is outdated and does not provide candidates with enough matching funds to be truly effective. As a result, candidate participation in the program has been dropping. *Please contact the following Supervisors: ** *All the following Supervisors* *have generally supported campaign reform and all valiantly stood with us previously when we created the mayoral public financing program. Please thank them for their past support and ask them to please support the legislation to improve the Board of Supervisors public campaign financing program. Let him know that the current spending caps and matching levels are too low, and are resulting in fewer and fewer candidates participating. If you're looking for general public financing talking points check out: http://voterownedelections.org/improve_our_democracy.html Gerardo Sandoval (415) 554-6975 Gerardo.Sandoval(a)sfgov.org <mailto:Gerardo.Sandoval@sfgov.org> Sophie Maxwell (415) 554-7670 Sophie.Maxwell(a)sfgov.org <mailto:Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org> <mailto:Gerardo.Sandoval@sfgov.org> <mailto:Bevan.Dufty@sfgov.org> Jake McGoldrick (415) 554-7410 Jake.McGoldrick(a)sfgov.org <mailto:Jake.McGoldrick@sfgov.org>

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