{"id":10331,"date":"2009-10-22T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-22T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:16:39","slug":"californians-want-clean-and-fair-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/22\/californians-want-clean-and-fair-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Want Clean and Fair Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In June, the California Fair Elections Act<\/a> will be on the ballot. Basically, the initiative will create a pilot clean money program for Sec of State candidates who agree to be limited by spending caps.<\/p>\n

And the response is wildly positive. Around 63% of Californians in this poll said they would support the measure. This is a great place to start off, especially considering there isn’t any organized opposition at this point.  That being said, there is a lot at stake here, so don’t expect that to be the case forever.<\/p>\n

The Clean Money Campaign<\/a> folks have some great information on how it would work:<\/p>\n

How Fair Elections Funding Would Work<\/p>\n

To Qualify:  Candidates have to receive 7,500 $5 qualifying contributions and signatures from registered California voters to show that they have a broad base of support.<\/p>\n

Fair Elections Candidates Receive:  Enough baseline public funds to run competitive primary campaigns ($1,000,000).  If they win their primary they receive enough baseline public funds to run competitive general election campaigns ($1,300,000).<\/p>\n

“Fair Fight” Funds If Outspent:  If Fair Elections Candidates are outspent by an opponent who does not participate or if independent groups attack them or support their opponent, they receive matching funds on a dollar for dollar basis within 24 hours to respond, up to total funding of 4 times the base amount, i.e. $4,000,000 in a primary and $5,200,000 in the general election.<\/p>\n

Prohibitions for Participating Candidates:  Candidates would be prohibited from raising or spending additional money beyond what they receive from the fund.  Once qualified, they must agree to spending limits and taking no private contributions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the full poll: California Fair Elections Act Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In June, the California Fair Elections Act<\/a> will be on the ballot. Basically, the initiative will create a pilot clean money program for Sec of State candidates who agree to be limited by spending caps.<\/p>\n

And the response is wildly positive. Around 63% of Californians in this poll said they would support the measure. This is a great place to start off, especially considering there isn’t any organized opposition at this point.  That being said, there is a lot at stake here, so don’t expect that to be the case forever.<\/p>\n

The Clean Money Campaign<\/a> folks have some great information on how it would work:<\/p>\n

How Fair Elections Funding Would Work<\/p>\n

To Qualify:  Candidates have to receive 7,500 $5 qualifying contributions and signatures from registered California voters to show that they have a broad base of support.<\/p>\n

Fair Elections Candidates Receive:  Enough baseline public funds to run competitive primary campaigns ($1,000,000).  If they win their primary they receive enough baseline public funds to run competitive general election campaigns ($1,300,000).<\/p>\n

“Fair Fight” Funds If Outspent:  If Fair Elections Candidates are outspent by an opponent who does not participate or if independent groups attack them or support their opponent, they receive matching funds on a dollar for dollar basis within 24 hours to respond, up to total funding of 4 times the base amount, i.e. $4,000,000 in a primary and $5,200,000 in the general election.<\/p>\n

Prohibitions for Participating Candidates:  Candidates would be prohibited from raising or spending additional money beyond what they receive from the fund.  Once qualified, they must agree to spending limits and taking no private contributions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the full poll: California Fair Elections Act Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7970,517],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7970","tag-517"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2GD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}