Candidates running for a seat on the Board of Supervisors this November are testing the new rules of The City’s public financing program.
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Supporters of San Francisco’s public campaign financing law wanted a leveling of the political playing field, but what they might not have considered was precisely how those taxpayer funds would be spent in the midst of a contentious race.
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Certain changes will have to be made to San Francisco’s system of publicly financing candidates for local office thanks to Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down part of Arizona’s public finance law.
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Five candidates for mayor have now asked for public dollars to help keep their campaigns flush with cash, with Michela Alioto-Pier, who opposed public financing in the past, and millionaire venture capitalist Joanna Rees expected to have their applications approved within a week. They follow City Attorney Dennis Herrera, former Supervisor Bevan Dufty and state Sen. Leland Yee, who have been approved for a combined $1.2 million in public dollars for their campaigns.
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In 2008, candidate Barack Obama didn’t just ask for donations. His website asked donors to “declare their independence from a broken system by supporting the first presidential election truly funded by the people.” At the time, no one expected that by “the people” he meant a bunch of millionaires, but this is the conclusion we draw from Obama’s latest campaign initiative.
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There was a split on the Board of Supervisors Tuesday over whether to allocate $1.3 million into San Francisco’s public financing program, which is a program where tax dollars are used to help candidates pay for their campaigns when running for mayor or supervisors if they
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Right now, Arizona’s robust system of public financing for political campaigns is on trial before the United States Supreme Court. And so is San Francisco’s.
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