Voters may be ready for publicly financed campaigns
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Contra Costa Times: At last, a governance reform Californians like. A poll last week found that nearly two-thirds of voters would say yes to a June 2010 ballot measure that would dip our collective toes into public financing of campaigns. In contrast, Field Poll numbers released this month show voters want to go to governance heaven but they don't want to go now. They support fundamental reform of the state's constitution but they dislike most of the governance remodeling proposals, such as putting an end to term limits, modifying the Proposition 13 tax structure or easing the two-thirds voting threshold for a state budget or new taxes. The Fair Elections Act, sponsored by state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, asks voters to set up a public fund to pay for the campaigns of willing secretary of state candidates in 2014 and 2018. In exchange for the public's largesse, participating candidates must agree to strict spending caps and restrictions on outside fundraising. It's a pilot project, of sorts, modeled after clean money election programs in Maine, Arizona and Connecticut.
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