Rolling up their Sleeves
To take a stand on the need for Clean Elections in California, state Assemblymember Dave Jones and Democratic state senate candidate Darrell Steinburg headed to a gas station in Sacramento to wash windows and talk to voters about Proposition 89. Proposition 89, California's Clean Elections initiative on the ballot in November, would create a voluntary system of full public financing in the state designed to vastly reduce the influence of special interest money on elections and resulting public policy. Jones and Steinburg were joined by "the Squeegee Brigade" of local Proposition 89 supporters, as well as representatives from Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, and the Sierra Club. As he cleaned the windows, Assemblymember Jones talked to Sacramento residents about the importance of public financing in solving local policy problems: “The $2 million push from an out of state developer behind the Maloof arena tax is the local poster child for what we face statewide [...] We need to inject clean money into politics so that elections can be about ideas instead of who has the most cash.” To learn more about the fight for Proposition 89, and to get involved, be sure and visit Yeson89!