LegalNewsline.com reports: A published report in Monday’s Los Angeles Times claimed several influential California legislators along with Attorney General Jerry Brown were “quietly let off the hook,” for campaign finance violations.
The city’s Ethics Commission today rejected a proposal for issuing a $2,050 fine for Councilman Tony Cardenas, saying the agency had been too lenient, considering that the councilman had received fines in previous campaigns. The commission’s investigators had determined that Cardenas failed to submit two scripts for automated campaign telephone calls during his 2007 reelection […]
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 […]