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Blog: We Need More than 'Feel Good' News from Assemblywoman Gaines
Gaines needs to tell us why she backs unlimited dollars pouring into political advertising without the public (us) getting to know who is paying the freight.
Roseville’s Assembly representative, Beth Gaines, in her recent Constituent Newsletter, invites us to “Nominate an Extraordinary Woman of the Year!”
Now, that’s great, but we need more than just “feel good” items, which Gaines is very good at. We need to know if Gaines is doing us any substantial good while she holds down her Assembly seat at our expense.
Case in point: Gaines needs to tell us why she backs unlimited dollars pouring into political advertising without the public (us) getting to know who is paying the freight.
Fact: Beth Gaines recently voted against the California DISCLOSE Act.
AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE Act — the bill to require that political ads show who really pays for them — fell two votes short of the two-thirds vote it required to pass.
Assemblymember Gaines voted against a bill requiring the kind of transparency and disclosure supported by 84% of California voters and only opposed by some of the biggest-spending special interests in the state.
The California Clean Money Campaign is already working on the next, even stronger version of the California DISCLOSE Act.
Will Gaines vote this time in favor of full disclosure, or will she vote again to let big-money interests pour unlimited money into political ads without giving us the chance to know where the money is coming from? Isn’t unlimited big money in politics one of our really big problems?
Would Republican Linda Park, who is running against Gaines for our Assembly seat, vote for or against full disclosure? We hope that she will let us know, in the course of the campaign.
The Democrat in our Assembly primary election is Reginald Bronner, of Lincoln. He has stated that he will back the California DISCLOSE Act. For more information, go to http://www.bronner4assembly.com/.