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Center for Governmental Studies Calls for Clean Money 2.0

By Brian Leubitz Calitics
In a report recently released, the Center for Governmental Studies calls for a modified version of clean money to control the excessive spending and allow for additional competition. In fact, they’ve gone ahead and produced a …

Governor Brown Should Sign Law to Reform Ballot Measures

By Justine Sarver Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
With the stroke of a pen, Governor Brown can start fixing California’s broken ballot-measure system this week.
A bill that would ban paying per-signature “bounty” payments to petition signature-gather…

Reining In Term Limits

By Peter Schrag
Most of the items in the catalogue of failures of California’s term limits law, outlined last week by CGS, the Los Angeles-based Center for Governmental Studies, could have been reported more than a decade ago, and a lot were.
The new…

Koch Brothers/Americans for Prosperity’s New Target: Middle Class Californians Pensions

By Steven Maviglio
The last time we heard from the Oklahoma-based Koch Brothers, they’d dumped $1 million into Prop 23, the Texas oil companies dirty energy proposition. That ballot measure went down in flames, losing by more votes than any other initi…

Let’s Compare the Constitutional Amendments Proposed after Citizens United

By Greg ColvinCampaign For America’s FutureAmong those who feel the only way to overcome the Citizens United decision, which opened the door to unlimited corporate spending on elections, is to amend the U.S. Constitution, the question on everyone’s m…

The California GOP’s Attack on Redistricting Commission: New Chairman, Same Old Complaints

By Steven Maviglio
Republicans are continuing to whine about the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission that they helped create. This time it is newly elected CRP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro. Their ongoing beef: the Commission did not hire the Rose Institute …