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Members for instance, with a small nonprofit, or that a member of this commission should be a member or friends of the board of another nonprofit, so the law should do exactly what it can do best, separate all those interests so we are required as citizens and as commissioners and as elected officials to reach out to new people. Whats wrong with having nonnonprofit directors becoming elected officials . Isnt that one of the purposes of pop 2k4rd ular government and democracy. One of the virtues of the law being left alone and not removing that section on organizations as the conflict of intere...

And it has a huge potential for unintended consequences as to how some of these things will work in the real world. Once it goes on the ballot, it can no longer be tweaked to fix any flaws, no matter how small or how large without going back to the voters, so i think it would be wise to try to pass it legislatively and see how it works in practice through these up coming elections, rather than take it straight to the ballot. And the last thing i want to say, theres been a high bar set for these kinds of amendments. The law says fourfifths of this commission and eight dlsh elevenths of the boar...

Peskins office that there is a tremendous benefit to working collaborately because it could be adopted at a later date. I know this is frustrating to many of you, but we have always agreed with 90 of what is in this measure. This is full of Good Government ideas, and we would like to see these things in place for the up coming june and november elections. Also, this is a massive piece of legislation. Its 36 pages long, covers many different aspects of campaign law and conflict of interest, and it has a huge potential for unintended consequences as to how some of these things will work in the r...

Implicating and imposing penalties on general members of the public, it is a most responsible thing to try to work together, and again, go with the board which has a much more public process because everybody watches the board hearings and a lot more people might weigh in who understand these things and how it might affect them, and we would be more likely to discover any flaws that people havent even thought about, so i think its a best practice to all work together, save the ballot occasion where Public Officials are really failing to act in the face of obvious corruption, and so thank you f...

And because were potentially implicating and imposing penalties on general members of the public, it is a most responsible thing to try to work together, and again, go with the board which has a much more public process because everybody watches the board hearings and a lot more people might weigh in who understand these things and how it might affect them, and we would be more likely to discover any flaws that people havent even thought about, so i think its a best practice to all work together, save the ballot occasion where Public Officials are really failing to act in the face of obvious c...