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Members of the California Clean Money Campaign San Fernando Valley Working Group,
North Hills, California, January 7, 2006

local voters meet in support of AB 583 and ask their legislators to support this Clean Money bill, too

The noted anthropologist Margaret Mead once famously said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

One such group got together today in North Hills, California, in the northern part of the San Fernando Valley, to discuss how to bring Clean Money/Clean Elections to their state. Members of the San Fernando Valley Working Group of the California Clean Money Campaign used the traditional method of writing letters to their State Assemblymembers and State Senators, and added a flourish to that process by contributing to an "Open Video Letter" to them as well, in which they directly expressed their wish to see their legislators become co-authors of the currently-pending AB 583 by Berkeley Assemblymember Loni Hancock.

Those legislators and everyone else interested in hearing the clearly-expressed desire of these citizens for the replacement of private funding of public elections with public funding for candidates under the terms of AB 583 can watch and listen to them doing so by clicking here.

You can access a copy of the current version of AB 583, read committee analyses of the bill, and stay current with evolving developments concerning AB 583 by clicking here.

An earlier version of Assemblymember Hancock's Clean Money/Clean Elections for California was endorsed by the San Francisco Chronicle in an April 20, 2004, editorial entitled "Toward cleaner elections."

For a list of the 25 California Assemblymembers and State Senators who are now co-authors of AB 583, click here.

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an audio interview with SB 583's principal author, Assemblymember Loni Hancock

To listen to a recently-recorded audio interview with Assemblymember Loni Hancock, in which she discusses Clean Money/Clean Elections and the bill of which she is the principal author, AB 583, click here.

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.

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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