Subject: CCMC News: AB 583 Heard in Senate Elections Committee

From: "Trent Lange, CA Clean Money" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:51:42 -0400 (EDT)

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align="center">Clean Money Supporters Pack 
Senate Elections Committee!</a> (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rymizubab.0.axsizubab.kenmtrbab.10855&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caclean.org%2Finspiration%2Fsenateelections_20060419.php)

See Testimony 
Highlights (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rymizubab.0.axsizubab.kenmtrbab.10855&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caclean.org%2Finspiration%2Fsenateelections_20060419.php)
					
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SUPPORTERS PACK CAPITOL FOR SENATE 
HEARING

The first Senate hearing on our Clean Money bill, AB 
583, was held in the Senate Elections Committee on 
Wednesday.  There was a fabulous turnout from 
Clean Money supporters, with nearly 100 people from 
around the state packing the hearing room and even 
the hall outside.

Assemblymember Loni Hancock, author of AB 583, 
led off the testimony.  Marc Spitzer, the cleanly-
elected Republican Chair of the Corporations 
Commission in Arizona, followed with testimony about 
how well the system works to free up candidates and 
elected officials from relying on lobbyists and how it 
is reigniting the faith of both the voters and even the 
candidates in Arizona's democracy.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of the 
California Clean Money Campaign, Paul Turner of the 
Greenlining Institute, Willie Pelote of AFSCME, and 
actor and activist Peter Coyote, who is currently 
playing the Vice President on ABC's "Commander in 
Chief", rounded out an impressively convincing 
panel.

Peter Coyote summed up the sentiments of many 
when he said "there's nothing more important we 
can do to have a fully fuctional democracy than to 
have the people fund the electoral process."

To see key clips from the panel members, 
visit:

http://www.CAclean.org/inspirati
on/senateelections_20060419.php (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rymizubab.0.axsizubab.kenmtrbab.10855&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caclean.org%2Finspiration%2Fsenateelections_20060419.php) 

NEXT IN THE COMMITTEE

Senators on the committee did raise a number of 
different concerns about the bill, which 
Assemblymember Hancock and the California Clean 
Money Campaign will be working to address both with 
amendments and by providing more research results 
before AB 583 comes back for a vote in the 
committee.  This sort of feedback from engaged 
legislators is one of the major benefits of going 
through the legislature and has already led to 
significant improvements in the bill.

We are cautiously optimistic that we will be able 
to address enough of the committee members' 
concerns that AB 583 will pass Elections before 
moving on to its next step in the Senate 
Appropriations committee.

Senate President pro tem Don Perata apparently 
shares those sentiments, releasing a statement to his 
constituents after the hearing saying "I support 
AB 583.  I look forward to it coming up for a vote and 
being approved by the Elections Committee at an 
upcoming hearing.  There is much work ahead, but I 
am hopeful for a positive outcome."

Clearly Senator Perata and others in the Senate 
have heard loud and clear the message from of all of 
you who wrote, faxed, called, and signed the petition 
for AB 583.  Those of you who came to Sacramento 
to pack the halls and lobby our senators should be 
particularly proud of yourselves.  Senator Perata 
himself took note, commenting on how "The 
committee hearing room was filled with Californians 
who had traveled to the Capitol from all parts of the 
Golden State."  His vision and leadership will be 
crucial to AB 583's success in the Senate, just as 
Speaker Fabian Nunez' leadership was crucial in the 
Assembly.

HOW YOU CAN HELP NOW

Stay tuned for our next steps.  When we find out 
when the actual Elections Committee vote is we'll let 
you know, because we'll want to pack the hearing 
room again!

In the meantime, if you're a member or have 
contacts with a local organization that ever has 
speakers or might be able to endorse Clean Money, 
please send an email to [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) to ask how they can get one of our inspiring Clean 
Money speakers.

If you happen to be a member of your local 
Chamber of Commerce or of a local conservative 
organization or have contacts with them, we'd be 
particularly interested in speaking to them, so please 
let us know and we'll help set something up.  As Marc 
Spitzer, the Republican Corporations Commission chair 
from Arizona said, Clean Money is a bipartisan 
issue.

SIGN THE PETITION IF YOU HAVEN'T 
RECENTLY!

And last, if you haven't signed the petition for AB 583 
online in the last couple of weeks, please sign it 
now!  The new online petition automatically 
generates an email to Senate President pro tem 
Perata, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, and 
Governor Schwarzenegger, along with any comments 
you include.  Then pass it on to your friends if you 
haven't already so they can sign, too!

http://www.CAclean.org/petition (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=rymizubab.0.bxsizubab.kenmtrbab.10855&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caclean.org%2Fpetition%2F%3Fref%3Dsu%3Anews042106)

Over 2,300 people have signed the petition and 
emailed them just in the last week, an amazing 
outpouring of support that's showing our leaders how 
ready Californians are for this sweeping reform.

Thanks again from the entire California Clean 
Money Campaign team for all of your inspiring support!

Trent Lange

Vice President of Board of Directors

California Clean Money Campaign

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