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California Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D-14th District)

California's "Clean Money/Clean Elections" bill, AB 583, passes California Assembly, 47-24

AB 583, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006, passed the California State Assembly today, on a 47-24 vote.

an interview with California State Assemblymember Loni Hancock, principal author of AB 583

Shortly afterwards, California Politics Today spoke with California Assemblymember Loni Hancock, principal author of the bill, about this important development in the progress of the largest U.S. state towards joining Maine, Arizona, and Connecticut in having a system of publicly-financed election campaigns.

You can listen to that interview, in part or in its entirety, by clicking here.

what's next for AB 583

AB 583 now moves on to the California State Senate for consideration, where it is expected to be heard in the Senate Elections Committee, chaired by California State Senator Debra Bowen, sometime around the middle of February.

If the bill passes that committee, and then the California State Senate as a whole, it will go into an Assembly-Senate conference committee, where final details, especially as regards the level of funding to be made available to publicly-financed candidates, will be worked out.

Assemblymember Hancock indicated in today's interview that the mostly likely time when a successfully-passed version of AB 583 would go before California voters for an up-or-down vote on this measure would be November, 2008.

who's considering AB 583 next in the California State Legislature

Assemblymember Hancock urged Californians concerned about the need for public funding of campaigns to contact and express their support for AB 583 to their own elected State Senators and California State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, State Senate Elections Committee Chair Senator Debra Bowen, Senator Jim Battin (Vice-Chair), Senator Kevin Murray, Senator Charles Poochigian, and Senator Gloria Romero.

some AB 583-related videos, now available for streaming and/or downloading from Google Video

To view a December 21, 2005, video interview with Aaron Cervantes, Latino Outreach Manger; Susan Lerner, Executive Director; and Eric Tang, Communications Coordinator; at the California Clean Money Campaign, in which they talk about their campaign in support of AB 583 and Clean Money/Clean Elections in general, go to a copy of that interview posted on the Google Video web site, at: California Clean Money Campaign tries to put the "demos" back in "democracy" .

While you're there, you can also access "An 'Open Video Letter' in support of SB 583 to California legislators."

 

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