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Please support the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act

Written by: Susan Rowe on Aug 2, 2008 5:13 AM EDT

Linked to groups: DFA-CFD of Fresno & Madera Counties, Democratic Club of Coarsegold, DFA-CFD of Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties , DFA of Stanislaus County, DFA of Chowchilla

Dear DFA-CFD Members,

 

The CA Senate Appropriations Committee will be hearing the current bill, AB 583 on Monday, August 4th, and the California Clean Money Campaign is working to pack the hearing room to show support. Carpools are being organized, and the CCMC will even pay for your gas!

Please RSVP to info[at]CAclean[dot]org
so they know you are coming.  If you'd like a ride or to offer a ride, then tell them where you live and they'll direct you to other carpoolers in your area.

For more details, see the California Clean Money Campaign media release HERE.

Want to further help? 

Please write letters for clean money! (your hand written letters are very effective)

Go to www.caclean.org then click the tools for letter writing posted at the home page to send a message to...
 
  • * Senate President pro Tem Don Perata
  • * Senate Appropriations Chair Tom Torlakson
  • * your state senator (Cogdill, Denham or Florez)
  • ...urging them to do everything they can to pass AB 583, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act.

Thank you all so much for everything that you do.

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Location: Coarsegold, CA 93614

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- Dean is first! Update...

By Susan Rowe on Aug 8, 2008 11:33 AM EDT

We did it!  Once again, nobody thought it was possible, but AB 583 passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee this afternoon on a 9-6 vote!  A big part of that was that we came up with a viable funding source -- voluntary tax contributions and an increase in lobbyist registration fees to the same level they are in Illinois.

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By Susan Rowe on Aug 8, 2008 11:34 AM EDT

But the biggest part of it, as always, was the "people power" we have -- people like you!  As CCMC Executive Director Julie Rajan and I worked the Capitol for the last four days, everybody was talking about the nearly 80 -- eighty! -- people who came to the hearing on Monday.  Appropriations Chairman Tom Torlakson said that we "definitely won the prize" for the most supporters for any bill this year, and that there were so many people that "it looked like people were circling out one door and coming in another to testify again". And they couldn't stop but noting that people came from all around the state, not only from all parts of the Bay Area but all the way up from Los Angeles and Orange County.  Californians owe a huge thank you to all of you who took your time to come out to the Capitol in Sacramento! ...  Trent Lange, President of Board of Directors California Clean Money Campaign

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By Susan Rowe on Aug 8, 2008 11:35 AM EDT
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These are exciting times, and they wouldn't have happened without Clean Money supporters like you!

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