Accordingly, petitioners are entitled to seek modification of the certified ballot title in this court. We modify the Attorney General's ballot title and certify it as modified. No public funds shall be spent to collect or assist in the collection of political funds. The penalty shall be not less than double the amount of money contributed to or spent for a political purpose. Political funds' defined to include expenditures for lobbying, supporting or opposing candidate, ballot measure or initiative petition.
Prohibition applies even if public entity reimbursed for using public funds.
Would prohibit public employee payroll deduction for union or any other entity using deduction for political purposes or commingling political, non-political funds. Requires monetary penalty for violation. Petitioners submitted comments challenging the Attorney General's draft caption and argue here that the certified caption does not comply with the statutory standard. Our task is to determine whether the Attorney General's certified caption satisfies the statutory standard. As petitioners argue, the caption sweeps too broadly, giving the incorrect impression that the subject matter of the proposed initiative measure is the use of any public resource for any political purpose.