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Rules Committee splits and forwards changes to campaign finance rules, including raising supervisor spending cap to $140,000
Summary
Supervisor Daly's package to merge supervisor and mayor public‑financing programs, raise the supervisor voluntary expenditure ceiling to $140,000, add reporting thresholds and tighten disclosure for independent mailings and push polling drew debate over mid‑cycle rule changes, reporting increments and potential conflicts of interest; the committee forwarded an amended file to the full board and continued parts for further review.
The Rules Committee considered a package of campaign finance and election‑transparency measures led by Supervisor Chris Daly that would combine partial public financing for mayoral and supervisorial candidates, increase the supervisory voluntary expenditure ceiling from about $86,000 to $140,000 and add a range of disclosure and reporting rules for independent expenditures, mass mailings and persuasion ("push") polls.
Daly said the changes aim to make public financing a credible option for more candidates and to limit the effect of large independent expenditures. He offered two versions of the legislation (two…
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