| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 10/12/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/12/2005, 8:35 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Los Angeles Times offers this
report, with the subhead: "Panel members want the City Council to
adopt a 'clean money' system to end the need for donors." An
interesting snippet for those of us in the election law field who
recall the Pew/Tregila
controversy: "Commissioner Sean Treglia, however, opposes the
proposal, saying court decisions creating loopholes in public-financing
programs put their effectiveness in doubt. 'I'm not convinced full
public financing is the answer,' he said. 'A stepped-up form of partial
public financing and some new regulations around issue advocacy,
independent expenditure campaigns, may work.'"
The SF Chronicle offers this
report. Meanwhile, Peter Schrag weighs
in on Prop. 77 in the Sacramento Bee.
This
A.P. report discusses Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' role in
the Voting Rights Act litigation that took place during her tenure on
the Dallas City Council. My own more in-depth analysis of that role
appears here.
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