Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director of the California Nurses Association which put California's Clean Elections initiative, Proposition 89, on the state's ballot, writes at California Progress report about the loss, and the promise of future reform. 

Unfortunately, Proposition 89, California's Clean Elections initiative, was defeated last night.  Thanks goes out to all who worked to give the state a chance at Clean Elections. It was a hard fought battle - and not the end of our fight for public financing and fair elections in California.

Have you seen the lastest ad put together by the Yes on 89 folks in support of Proposition 89, the Clean Elections initiative in California?  It's the top-rated political ad on YouTube, the popular video-sharing website and is getting serious media attention.  Be sure and watch it!

La Opinión, the country’s largest Spanish-language daily newspaper, has endorsed Proposition 89, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections initiative.  Citing voter disenfranchisement as a result of the special interest money’s dominance in political campaigns, the paper feels Prop 89 is an essential reform to restore faith in our electoral system and our government.

Got plans on Friday? This Friday, the 20th, the PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW is running an hour-long special episode called "Votes for Sale?", which will spotlight the Clean Elections movement as it took hold in Maine and Arizona as well as talk about campaigns to win Clean Elections across the country, particularly the current Proposition 89 campaign in California. Check out a preview here.

Election season: a time for careful and nuanced debate about the issues of the day and how they'll honestly affect vot--oh, sorry.  Must have hit my head on something. No, as Virginia Ellis and Dan Morian explain in an article on the raging campaign spending in California, the battle on November 7th is all about the money.