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Breaking: Bills Addressing Dangers of AI to Elections Score Major Legislative Win
CITED’s sponsored bills clear the Senate Appropriations Committee and move to final step of the legislative process
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Statement on Los Angeles City Council Campaign Finance Vote
The proposed rules are designed to end the real and perceived pay-to-play politics at City Hall.
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Nonprofits Urge City Council to Limit Behested Payments
Restrictions on behested payments will help end pay-to-play politics at City Hall.
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Diverse Coalition of Immigrant and Good Government Groups Announces Support for Local and County Gerrymandering Reform
SACRAMENTO – In advance of state Senate and Assembly committee votes today, a broad coalition of immigrant and good government groups announced their support for two bills authored by California Common Cause that aim to end gerrymandering at the local and county level.
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Common Cause Leading the Charge to End Local and County Gerrymandering
AB 849, called the Fair Maps Act, requires city councils and other local governments to use standardized, fair redistricting criteria that prioritize communities when drawing district lines. SB 139, the People’s Maps Act, goes one step further and requires counties with 250,000 or more residents to establish independent redistricting commissions to draw district lines using the fair criteria.
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Los Angeles Should Adopt People-Funded Election Rules
California Common Cause urges Los Angeles City Council to make it easier to qualify for matching funds
and to adopt people-only campaign contribution rule
and to adopt people-only campaign contribution rule
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Common Cause Files Brief in California’s Challenge to Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
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Common Cause Applauds $6 to $1 Super Match for City Candidates, Looks Ahead to Additional Reforms
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California’s campaign watchdog agency could soon lower fines for many political violations
"There are legitimate uses of streamlining, but we want to ensure the proposed penalty structure does not eliminate important deterrents to violators,” said Kathryn Phillips, a spokeswoman for California Common Cause.
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L.A. beefs up public funding for city candidates, but critics warn it will backfire
When the Los Angeles City Council ultimately approved the new system Wednesday, the California Clean Money Campaign, California Common Cause and other groups said they were sorely disappointed.
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California Common Cause Welcomes Rey López-Calderón as New Executive Director, Kathay Feng to Lead National Redistricting Program
California Common Cause is pleased to announce that Rey López-Calderón will become the organization’s new executive director as of January 1, 2019. López-Calderón has worked for more than 20 years in faith, labor, education, and political organizing. He takes the helm of our nonpartisan, grassroots state organization from Kathay Feng, who has led the state organization since 2005 and the national redistricting work since 2013. She will now focus solely on redistricting reform.
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Supreme Court discussing partisan gerrymandering behind closed doors Friday
"When politicians feel brazen enough to not just admit but to openly declare that they are drawing political lines to rig the elections and punish certain voters, we need the Supreme Court to step in and say enough is enough," said Kathay Feng, a lawyer representing the challenges from Common Cause.
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‘Highly irregular’: Candidate took a salary from campaign contributions while running against Maxine Waters
A candidate paying himself a salary is “highly irregular,” said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause, who thinks the vast majority of candidates would refrain from doing it for fear it would look bad to voters and potential campaign donors.