Helping Our Peninsula's Environment

"Democracy doesn’t have to be a commodity that is bought and sold. Most politicians enter politics to do good, not to ask for donations.

"There’s no reason we can’t have a political process in which everyone’s voice can be heard, in which dissent is respected and in which candidates run on the strength of their ideas, not the weight of their wallets."

- Bill Bradley, former US Senator

Overview

Local CFR Ordinances

Model Laws

Pacific Grove's New Campaign Finance and Conflict of Financial Interest Ordinance Law

Pacific Grove's Council adopts County's first Campaign Finance and Conflict of Financial Interest Ordinance; May be California's strongest. Sept 6, 2006

None yet exist in Monterey County, but Pacific Grove’s Council gave the first of two needed approvals to a strong ordinance August 16, 2006

Pacific Grove "accepted" (not adopted) Campaign Finance and Conflict of Financial Interest Ordinance proposal by Pacific Grove City Council’s ad hoc committee. July 2006

Carmel Campaign Finance Reform (1993)

A Monterey County effort failed due to Supervisor Sam Karas and other Supervisors stacking the County committee with people who didn’t want it to happen.

1. HOPE’s Model Clean Government Decisions Law (2003, Combines the best of Bribery and Campaign Finance Laws)

2. Model CFR Ordinance by Center for Governmental Studies (emphasis on contribution limits and public financing)

3. Monterey Peninsula League of Women Voters Model Ordinance (approved by the Board January 2006)

March 2009 - County Supervisor Dave Potter Hoodwinks Coastal Commission into Scheduling Meeting at Tony Lombardo's Golf Club - while Lombardo Represents a Project on that Agenda

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