Comments on: Jacoby: Clean Elections “Darn Good Bill” http://iowavoters.org/2007/03/25/jacoby-clean-elections-darn-good-bill/ for Open and Transparent Elections Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: T.M. Lindsey http://iowavoters.org/2007/03/25/jacoby-clean-elections-darn-good-bill/#comment-6718 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:02:42 +0000 http://iowavoters.org/2007/03/25/jacoby-clean-elections-darn-good-bill/#comment-6718 Dave Jacoby is not being completely forthright about you on this issue. Cleaning up the policy section is not a reason to "kill" the bill in committee, nor is the vague it's "too complicated" excuse. I read through the bill and it didn't seem too complicated to me. Sure, implementing a major reform law to help reclaim Democracy will be challenging and complicated, but that's why our leaders need to be willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work. I wonder if complicated had been inserted in lieu of "inconvenient." Furthermore, proponents of the bill have provided funding measures which include an optional income tax check off, seem money and qualifying contributions collected by candidates, fines levied for for breaking the rules, private donations to the clean elections fund, and so on. These are all listed in the bill. The biggest funding stream for this bill is detailed in section 28, subsection 7 of the bill which states: "Money pursuant from unclaimed or abandoned property in the state's custody pursuant to Chapter 556." I've been informed by a lobbyist acting in favor of this bill that this funding stream alone will generate more than the $10 million needed to find and maintain the clean elections fund. I will e-mail Dave Jacoby again with this information, and see how he responds to this. I encourage everyone else who reads this to do so as well. Dave Jacoby is not being completely forthright about you on this issue. Cleaning up the policy section is not a reason to “kill” the bill in committee, nor is the vague it’s “too complicated” excuse. I read through the bill and it didn’t seem too complicated to me. Sure, implementing a major reform law to help reclaim Democracy will be challenging and complicated, but that’s why our leaders need to be willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work. I wonder if complicated had been inserted in lieu of “inconvenient.”

Furthermore, proponents of the bill have provided funding measures which include an optional income tax check off, seem money and qualifying contributions collected by candidates, fines levied for for breaking the rules, private donations to the clean elections fund, and so on. These are all listed in the bill.

The biggest funding stream for this bill is detailed in section 28, subsection 7 of the bill which states: “Money pursuant from unclaimed or abandoned property in the state’s custody pursuant to Chapter 556.” I’ve been informed by a lobbyist acting in favor of this bill that this funding stream alone will generate more than the $10 million needed to find and maintain the clean elections fund.

I will e-mail Dave Jacoby again with this information, and see how he responds to this. I encourage everyone else who reads this to do so as well.

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