The Clean Money - Clean Cities Conferences on March 15th in Pasadena and March 23rd were co-hosted by the California Clean Money Campaign and California Common Cause and co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of California. Each were attended by over 100 city officials, community leaders and activists.

  Attendees heard from elected officials about the need for Clean Money and from experts on campaign finance reform, costs of municipal campaigning, administering public funding systems, and spearheading Clean Money efforts in Portland, OR, Albuquerque, NM and throughout California.

  Watch the speakers at the San Jose conference by clicking on the video to the right or selecting a speaker and topic to view below.

  Materials provided by many of the speakers can be found on the materials page of the Clean Money - Clean Cities website.

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Speaker(s)
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Slides
Session Opening
Susan Lerner, Kathay Feng Introduction 10'25  
Fred Keeley Need for Clean Money 26'39  
Clean Money Basics
Susan Lerner Typical Clean Money Systems 14'11  
Steven Levin Various Clean Money Systems 10'11  
Brian Adams Cost of City Campaigns 7'49  
Eric Griego   13'07  
Various Question and Answer 14'03  
Know the Law
Suzanne Novak Constitutional and Legal Issues 13'07  
Bob Stern Esq. Issues under CA Law 7'28  
Janice Thompson Drafting Issues 11'02
Trent Lange Setting Funding Levels 9'13
Various Question and Answer 12'55  
The Inside Story
Steve Levin   10'03  
Nicole Gordon Challenges of Administering Public Funding 11'32  
Brian Adams Campaign Finance Disclosure Systems 11'18  
Eric Griego Setting up a Clean Money System 12'13  
Various Question and Answer 17'40  
Winning Clean Money
David Mermin Testing and Developing Public Support 20'19  
Janice Thompson Winning City Council 13'33  
Various Question and Answer 21'46  




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