[EL] Ban on contributions by developers

[Kogan, Vladimir]

The federal ban on contributions from government contractors is perhaps similar. Here is the definition of contractors from the FEC website:

A person who enters into a contract, or is bidding on such a contract, with any agency or department of the United States government and is paid, or is to be paid, for services, material, equipment, supplies, land or buildings with funds appropriated by Congress. 11 CFR 115.1.

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of ben.sheffner at gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:46 PM
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Subject: [EL] Ban on contributions by developers

The Los Angeles City Council is considering imposing a ban on contributions to candidates for city office by real estate developers. Is anyone aware of similar regulations, and challenges to them?

Here's a description of the proposal from the LA Times:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-developer-donations-20190115-story.html

Under the proposal, real estate developers would be barred from giving to city candidates and officeholders once they have turned in an application that requires city approval or other action, provided that the request involves building or adding more than 4,000 square feet of floor area for residential projects or 15,000 square feet for commercial projects.

The donation ban would last until a year after a final decision is made on the application, the proposal said. The restrictions would apply to the owner of the property being developed, including principals of any legal entity that owns the property.

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