Several California candidates were fined by the California Fair Political Practices Commission, according to this report.
Category: California
No contingency payments for placement agents
One company has proposed an approach to pay to play abuse in the pension fund industry. The president of Calpers urged fellow board members at the biggest U.S. public pension fund on Wednesday to back his plan to require placement agents to be subjected to laws for lobbyists in response to events alleging their “undue […]
California lobbyists guinea pigs in campaign finance experiment?
The Sacramento Bee provides an overview of California lobbyists’ lawsuit to stop a public funding proposal. The lobbyists say the measure to make them collectively pay approximately $34 million to fund California’s statewide secretary of state campaigns in 2014 and 2018 unfairly restricts their free speech rights and restricts people’s constitutional right to petition their […]