Clean Windows for Clean Elections

Tomorrow morning, Nick Nyhart, Executive Director, Public Campaign Action Fund and Chellie Pingree, President and CEO, Common Cause will be in San Francisco for an exciting event to highlight Proposition 89.

Along with local politicians, they will be offering to clean your car windows for free in order to produce a clear vision for clean government in California.

The event will begin at 8:30 AM at Olympia Gas Station on the Northwest Corner of South Van Ness and Chesar Chavez.

Join us!

Quote of the Day

Here in San Diego, I feel like I am at an epicenter of the money and politics plague that has sickened the democratic process all over the country. A local Congressman, Duke Cunningham, has gone to jail as part of an ongoing national scandal. The cost of political campaigns is going up, up, up at every level and that is certainly more true in California than anywhere else in the country, and voters badly want change in our political system.

But, thankfully, here in California, Proposition 89 is on the ballot

Proposition 89 offers Californians a chance to take back control of the political system from the lobbyists and deep pocket campaign donors and join with voters in seven other states and two cities that have adopted Clean Elections. By passing Proposition 89, voters in California would send a clear signal to politicians across the country that they demand meaningful campaign reform.

-Nick Nyhart, Executive Director of Public Campaign

David Paul Brown for Prop 89

David Paul Brown, writing in the Paradise Post, gives a shout out to Proposition 89:

Three groups (among many) that I mostly agree with are supporting 89.

They're Common Cause, Public Campaign and The League of Women Voters.

Let's allow a candidate's ideas to garner our votes, immaterial of their wallet's largess.

They've done it in Maine and Arizona with good results and satisfied voters. The "fat cats" may not like it but isn't that the point? Yes on 89.

Of course the "fat cats" don't like Proposition 89, they are doing quite well in the current system (cough, Fabian Nunez, cough). It is precisely because clean elections return power to the people that special interests are opposed.