[Originally posted at NorCal Politics on February 7, 2006]

I’ve had this Dan Walters column bookmarked for several days now.  It’s a discussion of AB 583, the clean money bill recently passed by the California Assembly, entirely without Republican support.  The bill itself is modeled after recent legislation in Arizona and Maine, and essentially allows candidates who raise a certain amount of small donations to then run their campaign with public financing.  The goal is to minimize the role of moneyed interests in California’s politics, which I believe is a worthy goal.

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