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Board approves consolidated campaign-finance package, raises supervisors— voluntary spending ceiling and tightens disclosure rules
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a package of campaign-finance measures on Nov. 6, 2007, consolidating mayoral and supervisorial partial public financing, raising the voluntary expenditure ceiling for supervisorial candidates, and adopting new reporting rules for telephonic persuasion polls, circulators and independent mailings.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 6 approved a set of ordinances that consolidate the city—s partial public financing programs and add new disclosure rules for campaign activity, including telephonic persuasion polls, circulator identification and mass-mailing reporting.
Supervisor Daley introduced the package, saying it would combine the mayor—s and supervisors— partial public financing programs and increase the voluntary expenditure ceiling for supervisorial candidates from $86,000 to $140,000. "It would, I think, strongly encourage candidates to participate," Daley said, arguing the change would reduce the influence of outside big-money spending.
The board also passed ordinances to require callers who conduct or pay for telephonic…
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