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Aaron Cervantes (Latino Outreach Manager)---Susan Lerner (Executive Director)---Eric Tang (Communications Coordinator)
California Clean Money Campaign leadership team

corruption of the democratic political process through private campaign funding excess and other long-standing abuses give rise to a movement for "Clean Money/Clean Elections"

As political money scandals involving former U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, former California Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, and an unknown number of recipients of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's financial and culinary largesse grab the headlines, a movement to put U.S. elections on a less-prone-to-abuse basis by providing public funding for political candidates has taken shape recently, and has scored a number of notable successes.

Maine and Arizona have adopted statewide Clean Money/Clean Elections programs by popular vote, and, on December 1, 2005, Connecticut became the first state where the state legislature has voted in a Clean Money/Clean Elections program for an entire state.

California Clean Money Campaign seeks Clean Money/Clean Elections for the nation's most populous state

A Los Angeles-based group called the California Clean Money Campaign is seeking to build on the momentum of these previous successes, and create even more interest in moving the political process towards a Clean Money/Clean Elections foundation by urging support for AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2005," authored by California Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley).

You can read the official analysis of this bill by clicking here.

Assemblymember Hancock's Clean Money/Clean Elections for California bill was endorsed by the Los Angeles Times in a December 7, 2005, editorial entitled "Buying back government."

a half-hour video interview with the California Clean Money Campaign team

California Politics Today today did with a $350 Casio Exilim EX-S500 Ultra Slim Card Camera what no local for-profit California television station (operating for the "public convenience and necessity" under federal regulation) nor the estimable public television series California Connected has yet done, when it produced a 30-minute video interview with the team leading the effort for Clean Money/Clean Elections in California.

You can watch that in-depth interview about the origins, nature, and possibilities of Clean Money/Clean Elections for California by clicking on the image below:

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Aaron Cervantes, Susan Lerner, and Eric Tang, Los Angeles, California, December 21, 2005

additional, recent Clean Money/Clean Elections interviews on Etopia Media News Network

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Los Angeles City Councilmember Wendy Greuel (District 2)

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Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl (District 11)

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more information about the California Clean Money Campaign

For more information about the California Clean Money Campaign, click here.

To access a discussion of AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2005," by the League 0f Women Voters of California, click here.

more information about the digital camera used to produce the interview with the California Clean Money Campaign team

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listen to an interview about the Casio EX-S500

To listen to an interview with Casio spokesperson Denise Ruiz-Cabrera, recorded on December 14, 2005, in which she discusses the Casio EX-S500 Ultra Slim Card Camera, click here.

 

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