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Rules Committee backs ordinance to require disclosure for "draft" campaign committees
Summary
The Rules Committee recommended an ordinance that would require groups formed to recruit or urge a person to run for city office to register and file disclosures like candidate committees. The Ethics Commission urged the change after earlier 2011 activity seeking to persuade then-interim Mayor Ed Lee to run.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Thursday recommended an ordinance to amend the city—s campaign and governmental conduct code so that groups formed to support an identifiable person who has not yet qualified as a candidate must register and file the same disclosure reports as primarily formed candidate committees.
The proposal, brought at the Ethics Commission—s request, aims to close what the Ethics Commission described…
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