Videomaven: Carole Migden @ Global Climate Change Action Day 2007

March 17, 2008

This November 04, 2007 video is by patrickwdoyle. Migden speaks at Step It Up Global Climate Change Action Day at Juiliad Park in Santa Rosa about her Community Choice Aggregation legislation, national politics, protecting forests and open space, and current California Water issues.

Carole Migden is running against Joe Nation and Mark Leno for State Senate. You will get to choose which one you want on June 3, 2008.

Randy Shaw reports that Carole Migden has done a turnaround on Prop 34, which:
* Limits individual campaign contributions per election: state legislature, $3,000; statewide elective office, $5,000 (small contributor committees may double these limits); governor, $20,000. Limits contributions to political parties/political committees for purpose of making contributions for support or defeat of candidates.

* Establishes voluntary spending limits, requires ballot pamphlet to list candidates who agree to limit campaign spending.

* Expands public disclosure requirements, increases penalties for violations.

* Prohibits lobbyists’ contributions to officials they lobby.

* Limits campaign fund transfers between candidates, regulates use of surplus campaign funds.

* Effective 1/1/01, except statewide elective office effective 11/6/02.

In 2000, Migden voted for putting Prop 34 on the ballot. Now Migden is suing the California Fair Political Practices Commission or FPPC stating that proposition is unconstitutional. Apparently, she has spent approximately $400k in violation of Prop 34, which could end up costing her over 1.2 million in fines according to California for Democracy.

According to the Joe Eskenazi at Sfweekly.com. This all started when the FPPC received a complaint on July 27th of 2007 by Mark Leno’s campaign. The FPPC responded two days later that they were investigating. The complaint states that Migden improperly transferred 1 million dollars from her Assembly re-election committee to her state senate fund. On top of that, she failed to itemize 400k in credit card expenses over the past several years and illegally transferred hundreds of thousands dollars from a Board of Equalization committee fund that should have been cancelled.

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