The DISCLOSE Act, AB 700, Is Off and Running

On top of testifying before the Elections Committee (there were 125 total and 12 of us from our area) there were 50 lobbying visits made and the bill gained some new co-authors.  An amazing stack of 33,800 signatures for AB700 were delivered to Assemblymember Gomez, who is the co-author and last year was one who voted no to cause it to fail.  AB700 requires ballot measure ads be clear about the top 3 donors - the real ones. No PACs.

Next Steps

The Elections Committee was the first of steps for AB 700 to get through the legislative process, but it was a big step.  Next up is the Assembly Appropriations Committee where we'll have the advantage that our lead author, Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, is the chair.  We may need people to come to Sacramento to help pack that hearing, too, which could happen as early as a couple of weeks.

What You Can Do

Thousands of signatures make a big impression.  Please download petitions and materials

here: http://www.caclean.org/materials/print.php  and get your friends and family to sign them.  Also, if you would like to be on the list for possibly going to Sacramento for the future hearings, contact the Joe Ely, who is the East Bay Coordinator, at j.ely@comcast.net.

500,000 petition signatures were delivered to the White House on April 2 while Walnut Creek and 50 Other Cities held rallies asking President Obama to issue an Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Disclose Campaign Contributions.  

What You Can Do

Call the White House to encourage President Obama to take action now. 

1-855-980-5638 

You'll reach the White House Switchboard. 

Please use the text below as a sample script to call the White House.

Dear President Obama,  In your State of the Union address, you said secret billionaire and big business "dark money" is pulling "our politics into the gutter."  Please do something about this right now and issue an executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their political spending.  We deserve to know how much corporations are spending -- either backing politicians who may help them get lucrative government business -- that our tax dollars pay for or -- attacking politicians who do not.