8/9/23
Clean Elections San Diego
Hi Everyone,
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How are you? I often get asked questions about clean elections. What are they and why do we need them?
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First, why do we want clean elections for San Diego? Clean Elections is an answer to the problem of big money controlling our political system. Right now wealthy and special interest candidates dominate who is elected through their large financial contributions to their candidates of their choice.
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Those wealthy and special interest candidates usually swamp candidates who might be qualified and who might want to fight for the benefit of all, but who have limited financial resources. The result is that too many politicians who are elected to office are beholden to their financial backers, and not to the general voter and the public good for all.
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The result is that the special interests get what they want from government and the needs of the ordinary person and neighborhoods come in second, or are delayed or are forgotten altogether.
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This is not right. Government should fight to solve the problems for all, not just for the wealthy and the
special interests.
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This is why we support clean elections, a form of campaign finance reform in which every day people who are qualified and who want to represent the public, are able to earn the right for a limited amount of public funds to run competitive campaigns with wealthy and special interest candidates.
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And lastly, let me emphasize that the goal of clean elections is not to force all candidates to run as a clean elections candidate. Running as a clean elections candidate is an option. Candidates who want to run traditional campaigns, can still do so.
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Next month, we will share how clean elections works.
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Enjoy your summer and we urge you to visit our web page at : http://www.cleanelectionssandiego.org/
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And I invite you to join me for coffee at LeStats coffee house at 10 AM on Saturday August 27 for any questions or suggestions that you might have LeStats is located in University Heights on Park Avenue, two blocks north of El Cajon Blvd.
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John Hartley, Coordinator, Clean Elections San Diego
619-299-8870 or hartley2k@aol.com