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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Nov. 6, 2007

Bankrupting Democracy

Forum Column - By Frederick K. Lowell - California's recent move toward more-restrictive campaign finance laws promises to make political participation more difficult for the middle class.

FORUM COLUMN

By Frederick K. Lowell

      The recent enactment of AB 1430, a bill which prohibits California localities like San Francisco and Los Angeles from imposing restrictions on political communications between member organizations and their own members, may have signaled the beginning of the end of the over-regulation of politics in California.
      Ever since the Watergate scandals 30 years...

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