Campaign finance: Getting the legislature out of bed with lobbyists

By Nancy Neff, Letter to the Editor

Californians have long suspected that the Legislature is in bed with lobbyists; now we know it is sometimes literally true.

Most voters believe that the state is run for the benefit of a few big interests ("How far will voters go to fix California?" Open Forum, Sept. 16). We can alter that relationship in a very real and substantial way by voting for public financing of election campaigns - the California Fair Elections Act on our June 2010 ballot.

Public funding would make officials accountable to voters, not big money.

NANCY NEFF
Palo Alto

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)