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SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act
Citizens United unleashed unlimited, anonymous corporate spending on campaigns nationwide. That's why we're sponsoring the California DISCLOSE Act:
• Lets voters know who really is paying for political ads — on the ads themselves.
• Political ads will have to clearly and prominently list their three largest funders.
• "Follow-the-money" disclosure stops special interests from hiding.
• Applies to all kinds of political ads, including television, radio, print advertising, and websites.
The DISCLOSE Act will change the Big Money game
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Senators Mark Leno and Jerry Hill,
authors of SB 52,
the California DISCLOSE Act.
Sunshine in Campaigns Act
The California Clean Money Campaign also supports the Sunshine in Campaigns Act:
• SB 2 (Lieu-Yee): Requires candidates to Stand By Their Ad, requires more disclosures on slate mailers, and raises fines on violations of campaign, lobbying, or ethics laws.
• SB 3 (Yee-Lieu): Lays out a plan for a new, 21st century online disclosure system and require the state’s largest campaign treasurers to receive certification by the state ethics commission.
• SB 27 (Correa): Closes the non-profit reporting loophole. This would prevent future campaigns from receiving millions from donors, or out of state interests, without having to disclose the sources to the Secretary of State.
SB 2 and SB 3 are co-sponsored by our friends at California Common Cause and the League of Women Voters of California, both of which also support SB 52.
Why Clean Money and Fair Elections?
Do you think that public officials should be accountable
to voters instead of to big money contributors? So do we.
The solution is Fair Elections funding of campaigns
for qualified candidates who agree to strict spending limits.
• Get politicians out of the fundraising game
• Open up the political process
• End pay-to-play politics
• Get started by learning the basics
Working with nearly 300 statewide, local, and national organizations for California Clean Money and Fair Elections.
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The California Clean Money Campaign is a non-partisan 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to achieve an open and accountable government in California by building statewide support for public funding of election campaigns.
The California Clean Money Action Fund is the 501(c)4 advocacy arm of the California Clean Money Campaign
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California News
Los Angeles Times, by Matea Gold, Chris Megerian and Mark Z. Barabak, 5/2/13 Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to force such groups to disclose their donors. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a measure Thursday requiring independent groups that make election-related donations or expenditures of $6,000 or more . . . to disclose information about their top donors.
Full story Center for Public Integrity, by Andy Kroll, 4/15/13 . . . [S]ome conservatives are nervous that more details—such as the identities of actual donors—could be publicized. "This case has got very, very deep and significant implications," says a conservative lobbyist with knowledge of the investigation. "A lot of folks are going to have their dirty laundry hung out, and it's not going to be pretty. Why would money go through such a circuitous route if not to conceal the donors?" Full story
Our Letters and Op-Eds
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, by Letter to the Editor, 5/22/13 "Political ads are self-serving, but many of them don't even tell us who the "self" is... SB 52 would change that..." Full story Los Angeles Times, by John M. Goodman, 5/9/13 What is little known about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is that eight of the nine justices also said that disclosure of who is paying for ads is really important — first, so voters can properly weigh the arguments; second, so shareholders can know how their companies are spending their money . . .
Full story San Francisco Chronicle, by Nancy Neff, 2/25/13 " . . . voters need clear and prominent disclosure on political ads. The Legislature must pass the strongest bill for on-ad disclosure of the real funders of political ads: SB52 . . ." Full story
National News
Washington Post, by Editorial Board, 5/22/13 "We think openness here is a more valuable public good than is providing a cloak for every fat cat who wants to remain hidden. . . . Now Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has joined with a Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to offer a fresh attempt at a bipartisan bill, the Follow the Money Act . . . In a political system saturated with cash, transparency is the last, best hope for accountability." Full story The Progressive, by Andy Kroll, 5/20/13 " . . . [T]he traditional political parties, barred from taking all that limitless cash, seem to be sliding toward irrelevance. They are losing their grip on the political process, political observers say, leaving motivated millionaires and billionaires to handpick the candidates and the issues. "It'll be wealthy people getting together and picking horses and riding those horses through a primary process and maybe upending the consensus of the party," a Democratic strategist recently told me. "We're in a whole new world." Full story Los Angeles Times, by Matea Gold, Chris Megerian and Mark Z. Barabak, 5/2/13 Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to force such groups to disclose their donors. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a measure Thursday requiring independent groups that make election-related donations or expenditures of $6,000 or more . . . to disclose information about their top donors.
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