Chase Davis | California Watch | Mar. 25, 2010
It's been an eventful month in the battle over a June ballot measure that would create a pilot program to allow candidates for secretary of state to draw on state money to finance their campaigns, permanently repealing the state's ban on public financing in the process.
Yesterday, opponents of Proposition 15 attacked its legislative sponsor, state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, for inviting lobbyists to a political fundraiser and breaking bread with the same people whose influence the measure is designed to weaken.