The Barbar Boxer campaign was one of the most hotly contested Senate races in the nation. Yet Sen. Boxer prevailed despite having raised only 10 percent of her funding from PACs. At the end of 1998 State Sen. Pete Knight had raised a scant 15 percent of his re-election funding from small individual donors. And yes, Democrats play the game, too. When Proposition 208 was set aside in federal court, it was ruled that the limits on donations were so low as to constitute an infringement on free speech, but the judge expressed the possibility that, if rewritten to allow higher limits, the proposition could stand.
People vote and elect our leaders, and the process belongs in their hands.
Reform measures would ensure this. There are a number of campaign finance reform initiatives in the process of qualifying for the March 2000 ballot. Rick Lott is a Santa Clarita resident who plans to run for the Democratic nomination to the 17th Senate District. All rights reserved. Direct questions and problems to the webmaster .