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Clean Elections Awaits

Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 16:38

Byron Williams, a pastor in Oakland, CA, has written about Clean Elections on a couple of occasions and comes out again to voice his support for enacting a full public financing system for his state's elections in this prescriptive article on ending gridlock in the California legislature. Williams article comes out as a bill, AB 583, that would create a Clean Elections pilot program for California's Secretary of State office awaits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature. Last week the bill was approved by the state Assembly and Senate. Will the Governor ink it into law this week?

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