Elections Elsewhere

==Clean Elections Proposed for California==
===Media===
* Angelides Backs Public Financing of Campaigns - Los Angeles Times 
The Democrat, who is running for governor, defies key supporters and endorses Prop. 89.
:By Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writer, August 4, 2006
SACRAMENTO — Defying some of his strongest supporters in the race for governor, state Treasurer Phil Angelides on Thursday threw his support behind a November initiative that would use taxpayer money to fund campaigns and would markedly restrict political donations to candidates.
The decision to endorse Proposition 89 puts Angelides at odds with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his Republican opponent. Schwarzenegger had made sweeping away the influence of special interests a central platform of the 2003 recall as he blistered then-Gov. Gray Davis for his fundraising. Since then, Schwarzenegger has broken fundraising records himself and has shown little interest in changing campaign finance laws.