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Pasadena Star-News

An initiative aimed at keeping City Hall from going the way of Tammany Hall got a thumbs-up from voters Tuesday, winning with 60 percent.

Editorial

Claremont Courier

There exists no greater challenge to the quality of our political behavior than the role of money in election campaigns. Unfortunately, campaign contributions often are necesssary to gain access to a legislator. And most often, he or she who collects th

Editorial

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

The basic thrust of Measure A in Claremont is simple and unassailable: Public officials should not be taking money from those who have business with the city. The problem, as always with such issues, comes in finding a way to stop it.

American Banker-Bond Buyer

The California Dept. of Managed Health Care has decided to put itself in the precarious position of arbiter in a dispute between consumer groups and California HMOs

San Diego Union-Tribune

A legal battle over two competing campaign finance measures on the November ballot in Vista isn't over yet.

North County Times

After failing to enact a campaign finance reform initiative in the city of Vista, the group behind the measure asked an appeals court Thursday to throw out a case challenging the initiative's constitutionality.

North County Times

The group behind a failed campaign finance reform initiative that was challenged by the city of Vista will ask an appeals court today to throw out a ruling in the case that found the initiative was unconstitutional.

Sacramento Bee

For the California Department of Managed Health Care, the honeymoon is over.

The Bakersfield Californian

The dollars have been counted and the totals are mind-boggling. Incumbent 4th District Supervisor Ken Peterson spent nearly $500,000 to get re-elected, outspending his opponent, Cathy Palla, 4 to 1.

Irvine World News

A campaign finance reform effort that emerged last summer with much controversy resurfaced this week when the City Council voted unanimously to form a committee to study the current ordinance.

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial

ONE THING that's worse than a public official enriching himself by engaging in conflicts of interest is a demand that taxpayers should pick up the tab for any legal troubles arising from such wrongdoing.

San Diego Union-Tribune

A legal battle over two competing campaign finance measures on the November ballot in Vista isn't over yet.

Learn more about the anti-kickback initiatives that Oaks Project volunteers put on the ballot, campaigned for, and passed in five cities across California.

Read the main points of our initiative reform legislation, which will provide voters with more information in the initiative process - from the point of petition circulation to the moment of choice in the voting booth.

Sacramento Bee

Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office Friday gave the go-ahead for a consumer watchdog group to seek the removal of a member of the state Public Utilities Commission who bought stock of a company the PUC regulates.

Pasadena Star News

A City Council committee is recommending plans be shelved for a March ballot initiative that would set campaign contribution limits for Pasadena officials.

The Associated Press

A consumer rights group can seek the removal of Henry Duque, a member of the state Public Utilities Commission, for conflict of interest violations stemming from a $10,000 stock purchase, the state attorney general said Friday.

Pasadena council members oppose Nader-backed campaign finance reform initiative

Pasadena Weekly

Comparing an upcoming Ralph Nader-backed local ballot initiative to a condom, one supporter this week called on Pasadena voters to take safety precautions against political corruption by voting for the measure in the March elections.

San Diego Union Tribune

While all Americans focus on the Electoral College and the presidential recount, Vistans should be looking at the troubling disregard of the Vista City Council for the will of the voters in the city election.

Inland Valley Times

CLAREMONT -- City Council members Tuesday decided to let voters decide on a law that would set several conflict-of-interest standards for Claremont public officials.