San Jose

March 23, 2007: Our CLEAN MONEY - CLEAN CITIES conferences in Pasadena and San Jose were a great success! Over 100 city officials, community leaders and activists attended each of the conferences, where they learned about the benefits of public funding systems for local elections and how to implement a Clean Money system in their home city. Click here to visit the conference's website for more information on the conference and click here for a list of materials from the conference.

March, 2006: San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales and the city council asked the San Jose Elections Commission to study the feasibility of adopting public financing for city elections. The Elections Commission has until August 2006 to provide the city council with specific recommendations on implementing the Voter-Owned Campaign Ordinance.

Fully publicly-financed elections (or Clean Money Elections) mean that candidates don't have to raise money from private interests. Instead, candidates would qualify for public financing of their campaigns by collecting a certain number of small contributions (in other cities, for example, candidates must collect a certain number of $5 contributions from constituents.)

3/23/06: Memo from Mayor Gonzales requesting Voter-Owned Campaigns Feasibility Study

5/11/06: Initial report from San Jose Ethics Commission regarding Voter-Owned Campaign Concept.

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