A new op-ed in The Sacramento Bee by California League of Women Voters President Janis Hirohama calls for the California Fair Elections Act."Our current campaign finance system forces even the most well-intentioned elected officials to spend far too much of their time raising money from wealthy private donors and corporate interests, to the detriment of good public policy. At the conclusion of the legislative session this August – the very same time the fate of hundreds of bills will be decided in Sacramento – the money-raising frenzy will again kick into high gear."If anything positive can come from this most recent budget fiasco, it's the growing awareness by Californians of the need for structural reform in the way our government operates."Californians know the current campaign finance system doesn't have enough safeguards against the outsize influence of special interests, and the dysfunctional budget just passed in Sacramento gives us all the more reason to do something about it. We must start by passing the California Fair Elections Act in June 2010."