Why does California need Proposition 89, the Clean Money & Fair Elections Act?
A. We have a crisis of corruption in our government marked by scandal after scandal and criminal investigations of politicians from both parties. It is time for Californians to clean up this corruption, return elections to the voters, and make politicians accountable to voters instead of big money campaign contributors. The public has lost faith in California’s electoral process. One day last fall symbolized Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hat-in-hand practices and the apparent link to his policies in office. On Oct. 7, 2005, the governor vetoed three consumer laws and, the same day, collected $450,000 from Wal-Mart, the American Insurance Association and the Wine Institute, which benefited from the vetoes. “THE 2003 RECALL of Gov. Gray Davis did nothing to lift the pull of special interests in Sacramento,” the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in a January 10, 2006 editorial. “It merely changed the roster of monied interests that have clout in the governor’s office.” Q. How does the present
