San Francisco Mayoral Voter Owned Elections Act

This text of the legislation was last uploaded on Jan. 18, 2006. This is the version that was passed unanimously by the Ethics Commission on Dec. 19 and which will now go to the Board of Supervisors. San Franciscans for Voter Owned Elections supports this version of the legislation as amended by the Ethics Commission.

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  “Working with lobbyists now is fascinating. Their approach is ‘may we talk to you and share some information,’ not, ‘I did something for you, now you own me.”

-Jim Sedillo, Arizona Democratic State Representative


“Money is to politics what acid is to cloth - it eats away at the fabric of democracy. Democracy doesn’t have to be a commodity that is bought and sold. Most politicians enter politics to do good, not to ask for donations. There’s no reason we can’t have a political process in which everyone’s voice can be heard, in which dissent is respected and in which candidates run on the strength of their ideas, not the weight of their wallets.”

- Bill Bradley, former Senator