Legislation will help track 'dark money'
By Craig Dunkerley, Letter to the Editor
I shake my head when I see the juxtaposition between the
deepening drought and the unbridled attempts to build more
homes and commercial buildings by delusional developers and
public officials whose fantasy land beliefs tell them that
perpetual population growth and endless economic growth are
somehow possible in our finite world.
As strange as it might initially sound, this is all just
another example of how "dark money" is corrupting our whole
political system. It's that hidden money that greases
government wheels and facilitates all this insane
development. To free our elected officials from their
unavoidable dependence on special-interest money, we really
need full public financing of campaigns, but in the
meantime, voters at least need to be able to see where all
this money is coming from. Legislation like the California
Disclose Act will bring precisely this kind of transparency
to our electoral process.
Craig Dunkerley
South Bay Coordinator"‹ California Clean
Money Campaign San Jose
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