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Posted on 07/26/2002 4:32:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the First Amendment, a lawyer for a group that broadcast ads criticizing the way Gov. Gray Davis handled California's power crisis maintained Thursday that its members had a right and duty to express their opinions anonymously.
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That said, failure to disclose violates the spirit, but not the letter of the law. If the committee has genuinely been formed to neither support nor oppose a candidate, it is not covered by the law. Just the same, more disclosure is better.
81002. The people enact this title to accomplish the following purposes:
(a) Receipts and expenditures in election campaigns should be fully and truthfully disclosed in order that the voters may be fully informed and improper practices may be inhibited.84200.5. In addition to the campaign statements required by Section 84200, elected officers, candidates, and committees shall file preelection statements as follows: (a) During an even-numbered year, all candidates for elective state office being voted upon in the statewide direct primary election or the statewide general election, their controlled committees, and committees primarily formed to support or oppose an elected state officer or a state candidate being voted upon, shall file the applicable preelection statements specified in Section 84200.7 or 84200.8. indefinitely.
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I am not now, nor have I ever been, a resident of California.I have no idea who is involved in this particular group.I like them so far.....
They seem to understand freedom of speech more clearly than than those who think it means a mandate to protect publications lauding lewd, sick, child molesters.
Guess Davis will just have to sue, and allow the law to sort it out...or not.
This is a California law dating back to 1974, when it was passed by 70% of the voting citizens as Proposition 9. It has nothing to do with the Campaign Finance Reform Act, which is federal.
Isn't it absolutely funny to see the whiney socialist liberal pinko's have such astounding hissy fits?
Only the brain-dead can't properly infer from the message.
Davis' exclusively attack ads in the guise of political advertising is the sorriest example of the lot.
And cockroaches hate the light.
or others stealing their techniques.
ha ha?
It's more subtle than who is paying for the advertising. Such exposure is a way of opening the money trail for who funds many of the sweetheart lawsuits between NGOs and agencies. Many 501c-3 foundations are actually involved in profit making activities for their parent corporations. There is racketeering, tax evasion, and fraud involved in many of these legal actions and the interests they serve are not obvious.
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