Los Angeles Needs Clean Money
Letter to the editor
The huge sums of money being given to candidates for mayor
by contractors and developers with business in City Hall
("Race Brings Donor Issues to Fore," Aug. 8) show that a
change is desperately needed. Our current partial public
financing system of campaigns used to be the pride of the
nation, but investigations by federal prosecutors into "pay
to play" allegations at City Hall show that an obsolete
system that requires candidates to get nearly 80% of their
campaign funds from private sources is ripe for abuse.
Los Angeles and California need a full "clean money" public
financing system instead. Candidates should be making news
based on their stands on the issues, not on how much
special-interest money they raise.
Trent Lange
Vice President, CaliforniaClean Money
Campaign
Los Angeles
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