League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Los Angeles County, CA March 8, 2011 Election
	Charter Amendment LA-H Restriction on Campaign Contributions from City Contractors City of Los Angeles Charter Amendment - Majority Approval Required Official Results Pass: 159,832 / 74.9% Yes votes ...... 53,586 / 25.1% No votes See Also: Index of all Measures

Arguments For Charter Amendment LA-H

Arguments Against Charter Amendment LA-H

Special Interests are always trying to buy influence at City Hall. Charter Amendment H will help stop them. Our city faces serious challenges. Our elected officials should focus on addressing them instead of spending time fundraising for their next campaign. Vote YES for Charter Amendment H to rein in pay-to-play politics and change the way we finance election campaigns. Charter Amendment H will: Prohibit campaign contributions and fundraising by bidders on most large City contracts. Increase disclosure requirements for bidders for City contracts. Punish violators by banning them from winning city contracts for up to four years. Strengthen Campaign Finance Trust Fund established by Los Angeles voters by lifting the maximum balance in the fund to give candidates greater incentive to agree to the city's voluntary campaign spending limits. Protect taxpayers and public funds because it will not increase taxes or take away from other important programs, and has provisions to protect the budget in fiscal emergencies. The League of Women Voters of L.A. says: "Candidates shouldn't have to be wealthy or know wealthy donors to have a chance to run for office and win. Charter Amendment H will help voters choose city officials who have the best ideas and experience, not just the best fundraisers." Bob Stern, co-author of the 1974 Political Reform Act, says: "Measure H will strengthen the Ethics and Campaign Finance laws passed overwhelmingly by Los Angeles voters in the original Measure H in 1990." Join the nonpartisan coalition of nurses, teachers, small business owners, good government experts, consumer groups, workers, seniors, environmentalists, and faith communities in voting YES on H. VOTE YES ON H: CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE WON, NOT BOUGHT BY SPECIAL INTERESTS. For more information, please visit http://www.YesFairElections.org PERSONS SIGNING ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF CHARTER AMENDMENT H ERIC GARCETTI Council President City of Los Angeles JOSÉ HUIZAR Councilmember City of Los Angeles DAVID HOLTZMAN President League of Women Voters of Los Angeles KATHAY FENG Executive Director California Common Cause ANTONIO GONZALEZ President Southwest Voter Registration Education Project TRENT LANGE President California Clean Money Campaign BOB STERN President Center for Governmental Studies BRAD PARKER Small Business Owner SARAH K. PILLSBURY California Participation Project IDA MAE WINDHAM Retired Principal Cleveland High School Rebuttal to Arguments For Vote NO on Charter Amendment H Charter Amendment H is a boondoggle that provides millions of your tax dollars to politicians to fund their campaigns. Charter Amendment H DOES NOTHING to stop politicians from raising money from special interests, lobbyists, and developers for unlimited independent expenditures that allow them to control City Hall. At a time when our city faces serious challenges: a massive budget deficit, continued threats to fire and police service, library and park closures, and crumbling infrastructure, some people think of nothing better than to spend your money on their own political campaigns. Taxpayer funded campaigns in the face of massive cuts to core services show how out of touch some people are. The last thing the City of Los Angeles needs is increased taxpayer funded campaigns. VOTE NO ON H: CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE CONTROLLED BY VOTERS AND CAPPED, NOT BOUGHT WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS PERSONS SIGNING REBUTTAL TO THE ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF CHARTER AMENDMENT H GREIG SMITH Councilman City of Los Angeles GREGORY N. LIPPE Immediate Past Chair Valley Industry and Commerce Association ("ViCA") JOEL FOX President Small Business Action Committee JAN PERRY Councilwoman City of Los Angeles VICTORIA BOURDAS Former Chair North Valley Regional Chamber WAYNE ADELSTEIN President & CEO North Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce SCOTT STERLING Owner, Sterling Construction

VOTE NO ON MEASURE H to protect your money against the City of Los Angeles giving away more of your taxpayer dollars for political campaigns. NO ON MEASURE H preserves crucial taxpayer dollars at a time the City is in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and still faces a $350 million structural deficit. Now is not the time to spend more taxpayer funds to pay for political campaigns. NO ON MEASURE H prevents additional cuts to overtime pay for Police Officers, more rolling brownouts for firefighters, and deeper cuts to City staff already reduced by over 3,000 employees. Now is not the time to spend more taxpayer funds to pay for political campaigns. NO ON MEASURE H shields Recreation and Parks programs, youth and senior services and libraries from additional closures, and daycare centers and after-school programs from being further slashed. Now is not the time to spend more taxpayer funds to pay for political campaigns. NO ON MEASURE H safeguards investment in infrastructure, tree trimming, street paving, graffiti removal and other vital services that have already been decimated by the global financial crisis from future cuts. Now is not the time to spend more taxpayer funds to pay for political campaigns. Measure H will NOT prevent special interests with deep pockets and City contracts from influencing elections through unlimited multi-million dollar independent expenditure campaigns. Vote NO on Measure H -- Los Angeles can't afford to spend more taxpayer money to pay for political campaigns. PERSONS SIGNING ARGUMENT AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT H GREIG SMITH Councilman City of Los Angeles DENNIS P. ZINE Councilman City of Los Angeles GREGORY N. LIPPE Immediate Past Chair Valley Industry & Commerce Association BERNARD C. PARKS Councilmember City of Los Angeles CARMEN TRUTANICH City Attorney City of Los Angeles JOEL FOX President Small Business Action Committee Rebuttal to Arguments Against THE TRUTH ABOUT MEASURE H Measure H will NOT cost L.A. more money. Opponents will say anything to protect special interests that spend millions to buy elections. As taxpayers, we want an honest City government. We need H. VOTE YES ON H: Stop politics-as-usual at City Hall. "As taxpayers, we need to ensure that services we care about + public safety, parks, libraries, youth and senior services, LAX + aren't auctioned off to the biggest campaign donors." -- Raquel Beltran, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. Measure H reins in pay-to-play politics by banning bidders on City contracts from giving or raising campaign contributions and strengthening the Campaign Trust Fund. DON'T TRUST SPECIAL INTERESTS OPPOSING H AND DEFENDING THE CURRENT SYSTEM. Join the League of Women Voters, small business owners, nurses, neighborhood councils, religious leaders, and good government groups in voting YES. VOTE YES ON H: H is for Honest Government www.YesFairElections.org ERIC GARCETTI Council President City of Los Angeles JOSÉ HUIZAR Councilmember City of Los Angeles LAURA N. CHICK California Inspector General DEANN MCEWEN, RN Co-President California Nurses Assoc. REVEREND DR. RICK SCHLOSSER Executive Director California Council of Churches WAYNE WILLIAMS San Fernando Valley Small Business Owner ISAAC BURK Retired Fireman Echo Park Resident MARGARITA AMADOR CPAB Co-Chair LAPD Hollenbeck Division CHARLOTTE LAWS Member Greater Valley Glen Council RUSSEL BROWN President Downtown LA Neighborhood Council