{"id":2670,"date":"2011-03-01T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2022-06-28T06:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:06:50","slug":"show-me-the-money-new-study-exposes-outside-influence-in-san-francisco-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2670\/show-me-the-money-new-study-exposes-outside-influence-in-san-francisco-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Show me the Money: <br>New Study Exposes Outside Influence <br>in San Francisco Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/docs\/OutsideInfluence.pdf\">study<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/cleanupcityhall.wordpress.com\/\">San Franciscans for Clean Government<\/a> exposes the influence of campaign contributions from non-San Francisco resident sources.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis examined campaign finance disclosures filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission between January 1, 2009 and January 31, 2011 by candidates for San Francisco Mayor and the Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen candidates raise money from outside their districts they have to divert their precious time and attention away from the needs of the constituents they are running to represent,\u201d said attorney Jon Golinger, spokesman for San Franciscans for Clean Government.  \u201cThese big donations inevitably raise the question: What are these outside donors expecting for their money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In this year&#8217;s race for mayor, Businesswoman Joanna Rees tops the list in outside contributions. According to the analysis, 64 percent of Rees&#8217; contributions have been sourced to non-San Francisco residents, followed by Assessor-Record Phil Ting with 53 percent of contributions raised from non-San Francisco donors.<\/p>\n<p>In last year&#8217;s races for District supervisor, District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu tops the list with a whopping 92 percent of contributions from outside sources, followed by District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen (86 percent) and District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim (82 percent).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters should encourage candidates to spend most of their time, attention, and campaign efforts reaching out to their constituents, rather than to interests and individuals from outside their districts,\u201d concluded Golinger.  \u201cSan Francisco\u2019s campaign laws should be revamped to incentivize candidates to raise most of their money from the people they are running to represent rather than from outside donors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The analysis examined campaign finance disclosures filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission between January 1, 2009 and January 31, 2011 by candidates for San Francisco Mayor and the Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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