Democracy afficionados ~
I'm writing you about a couple important things: one statewide, and one
related to our local situation.
*California Clean Money pilot bill passes State Senate Appropriations
committee! We need your help as it goes to the full State Senate.**
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Our friends over at the California Clean Money campaign have
successfully pushed a bill through the Senate Appropriations committee
that would create a Clean Money pilot program for California Secretary
of State races. Congratulations to them for bringing our legislators on
board with this! They're asking for help as the bill comes to the full
Senate, so click here to use their easy online tool for contacting your
reps:
http://www.caclean.org/letters/?name=ab583-08-senate-a
*Our San Francisco pledge for Supervisorial candidates is getting off
the ground!!*
On the local front, we have teamed up with California Clean Money
Campaign and Change Congress to develop a pledge, called the "San
Francisco Clean Government Pledge" which we will be distributing to
candidates for Supervisor this year. The pledge asks candidates to
pledge to support full funding for the current system, a Charter
Amendment to protect the funds from political tampering, and support for
expansion to a full Clean Money system covering all city offices. We are
hopeful that this will ensure a pro-public financing majority on the
Board of Supervisors after this year's elections.
We have received the sponsorship so far of 6 organizations including
those mentioned above, as well as Common Cause, California Church
IMPACT, and Health Care for All. All organizations will be sending the
results of the pledge to their lists in San Francisco, which so far add
up to at least 10,000 addresses.
If you know of any organizations that you think might be interested in
co-sponsoring, let me know. We have decided to only accept
co-sponsorships from organizations that are not endorsing candidates for
Supervisor, and we are trying to shoot for groups that have large emails
lists, so as to reach the widest possible audience.
Rob Arnow
San Franciscans for Voter Owned Elections
www.voterownedelections.org
415-552-2229
