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Hello, All: <br>
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If you haven't already, could you please download and sign the
current petition for the California DISCLOSE Act (<a
href="http://www.caclean.org/content/pdf/ccmc_sb52_petition.pdf">www.caclean.org/content/pdf/ccmc_sb52_petition.pdf</a>)?
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This would require political ads to identify their primary
sources of funds, e.g., "Monsanta" rather than "Citizens for Healthy
Food". The Santa Clara Greens endorsed it some time ago. The bill
passed the Senate on May 29. To become law this year, it must get a
2/3 vote in the Assembly by September 13. To support that, the
California Clean Money campaign is asking for help in collecting
10,000 signatures statewide -- 250 in San José. They want real ink
on physical pieces of paper, because that counts more with
legislators than mouse clicks ;-) <br>
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After the California DISCLOSE Act becomes law, they then plan
to switch to something like citizen-funded elections and news, as
described in the Wikipedia article on "Electoral reform in the
United States" (<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States</a>).
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I plan to bring copies of this petition to the meeting next
week, so people who haven't already signed can do it then -- and
people who have collected signatures can give the forms to me to
save postage. <br>
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Thanks, <br>
Spencer<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph: 408-655-4567
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.structuremonitoring.com">www.structuremonitoring.com</a>
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