Yesterday’s Birnbaum discusses the new LD-203 reporting system. Lawyers dealing with the form — dubbed LD-203 — say they are working overtime to field questions and complaints from lobbying groups eager to fill the thing out correctly by the July 30 deadline. But they are not sure exactly how to do so.
Month: July 2008
LD-203 Riddles Abound
A number of learned counsel have written a letter to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House regarding the LD-203 Contributions Reporting System and HLOGA guidance.
SF Public Financing
This editorial discusses San Francisco’s public financing system. In 2000, San Francisco voters approved a system of public financing of campaigns for the Board of Supervisors, which in 2006 was expanded to the mayoral race. By eliminating the need for candidates to raise large amounts of private money, the program has been extremely successful at […]