{"id":8522,"date":"2009-04-13T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-13T19:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:33:45","slug":"asm-hector-de-la-torre-no-more-large-cash-payments-to-candidate-coffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/13\/asm-hector-de-la-torre-no-more-large-cash-payments-to-candidate-coffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Asm. Hector De La Torre: No More Large Cash Payments to Candidate Coffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This post was written by Asm. Hector De La Torre (D-South Gate) and is being promoted pursuant to our policy to bump post from candidates and electeds.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party activists have complained to me for years about the Party&#8217;s finances. &nbsp;Alex Rooker and Eric Bradley have also been concerned, and shared &nbsp;their frustration with me.<\/p>\n<p>If we agree there is a problem, then we need a solution. &nbsp;That is why I decided to introduce a Resolution at the upcoming Democratic Party Convention and asked Alex and Eric to join as co-sponsors: &nbsp;to fix our Party so we can get more Democrats elected!<\/p>\n<p>But we can&#8217;t do it alone. &nbsp;This common sense CDP finance reform resolution is the beginning of coming together for reform. &nbsp;I strongly believe that when delegates come together in support of this resolution, it will send a loud message for positive change throughout the Party.<\/p>\n<p>The companion measure to our resolution is a bylaw amendment that will block cash payments to politicians&#8217; campaign accounts (especially those that are termed-out). &nbsp;I am confident that broad delegate support will build momentum to make this long-overdue change happen&#8211;to stop spending that does not meet our main goal of electing more Democrats at the federal, state, and local level and supporting worthy ballot measures.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage every delegate, and every Democrat, to visit our website: <a href=http:\/\/www.LetsFixCDP.com>www.LetsFixCDP.com<\/a> and sign up for our reform effort. &nbsp;As we saw in November, we can accomplish amazing things when we unite for change as Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This post was written by Asm. Hector De La Torre (D-South Gate) and is being promoted pursuant to our policy to bump post from candidates and electeds.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party activists have complained to me for years about the Party&#8217;s finances. &nbsp;Alex Rooker and Eric Bradley have also been concerned, and shared &nbsp;their frustration with me.<\/p>\n<p>If we agree there is a problem, then we need a solution. &nbsp;That is why I decided to introduce a Resolution at the upcoming Democratic Party Convention and asked Alex and Eric to join as co-sponsors: &nbsp;to fix our Party so we can get more Democrats elected!<\/p>\n<p>But we can&#8217;t do it alone. &nbsp;This common sense CDP finance reform resolution is the beginning of coming together for reform. &nbsp;I strongly believe that when delegates come together in support of this resolution, it will send a loud message for positive change throughout the Party.<\/p>\n<p>The companion measure to our resolution is a bylaw amendment that will block cash payments to politicians&#8217; campaign accounts (especially those that are termed-out). &nbsp;I am confident that broad delegate support will build momentum to make this long-overdue change happen&#8211;to stop spending that does not meet our main goal of electing more Democrats at the federal, state, and local level and supporting worthy ballot measures.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage every delegate, and every Democrat, to visit our website: <a href=http:\/\/www.LetsFixCDP.com>www.LetsFixCDP.com<\/a> and sign up for our reform effort. &nbsp;As we saw in November, we can accomplish amazing things when we unite for change as Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1352,"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":[6186,223,921,6865,510],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-6186","tag-223","tag-921","tag-6865","tag-510"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","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\/1352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}