California Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D-14th District)
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 Assemblymember Loni Hancock is leading the effort to implement Clean Money/Clean Elections in California through the passage of AB 583
an interview with Assemblymember Loni Hancock
California Politics Today spoke this afternoon with Assemblymember Hancock about AB 583. You can listen to that interview, in its entirety, by clicking
here.
for more information and to get involved
To get more information about the California State Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting, which will vote on AB 583 on Tuesday, January 10, 2006, and its members, click
here.
If you're a California resident/voter, you can find contact information for your own Assemblymember and State Senator by clicking
here.
To visit Assemblymember Loni Hancock's official web site, click
here.
To visit a California State Assembly web page from which you can send your comments to legislators, click
here.
To access a discussion of AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006," by the League 0f Women Voters of California, click
here.
a half-hour video interview with the California Clean Money Campaign team
On December 21, 2005,
California Politics 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
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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.
more information about the digital camera used to produce the interview with the California Clean Money Campaign team
For more information about the entire Exilim line of digital cameras from Casio, click
here.
For more information about the EX-S500 camera in particular, click
here.
To access a July, 2005, press release announcing the Casio EX-S500 Ultra Slim Card Camera, click
here.
to buy a Casio Exilim EX-S500 Ultra Slim Card Camera
To buy a Casio EX-S500, click
here.
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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