[EL] Seattle is passing Measure I-122: $100 in vouchers to every voter, lower contribution limits, etc.

[David A. Holtzman]

So that's a subsidy of about $3 million per year to the 
campaign-industrial complex.
Is that big?  Little? How to characterize?  (Of course many vouchers 
won't be "cashed."  When will the vouchers expire?)

Sounds like you could have called I-122 an ethics measure if the 
contractor ban was limited to elected and other officials.
But the presumption of corruption in donations to those out of power is 
a bit much.
Laws like this could be outlawed because they cause the appearance of 
corruption.

On 11/3/2015 9:31 PM, Dan Meek wrote:
> Seattle voters by 60-40% are passing Measure I-122.  It requires the 
> City to send $100 in political vouchers to every voter in January of 
> every even-numbered year, to be paid from an increase in property 
> taxes (about $30 million over 10 years).  It lowers the contribution 
> limit to candidates for City office from $700 to $500.  .  It bans 
> candidates from accepting or soliciting contributions from anyone 
> having at least $250,000 in contracts with the City in the last two 
> years or who has paid at least $5,000 to lobby the City.
>
> Dan Meek
>
> 	503-293-9021 	dan at meek.net <mailto:dan at meek.net>	855-280-0488 fax
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Law-election mailing list
> Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election


-- 
David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D.
david at holtzmanlaw.com

Notice: This email (including any files transmitted with it) may be 
confidential, for use only by intended recipients.  If you are not an 
intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this email to 
an intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in 
error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying 
of this email is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this email 
in error, please immediately notify the sender and discard all copies.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Listservs/law-election/attachments/20151103/918cc5f3/attachment.html>