Posted by Barry Jantz at 12:00 am on Mar 18, 2007 Comments Off on Sunday San Diego…Unconstitutional Campaign Laws?
This is not the first time I’ve weighed in on the San Diego
Ethics Commission and the City of San Diego’s campaign laws that
often surpass thoseof the California Political Reform Act in
their regulatory ambition. Some are good, some are…well…just
waiting for a lawsuit.
I was recently invited to a meeting of a potential SD City
Council candidate. The individual is definitely running, yet
he is not yet a candidate and the meeting in question was not a
campaign meeting…because, you see,the city says so. You
can’t announce your candidacy, raise money, or even put up a
website until a year prior to the primary election…uhhh, not in SD
anyway.
Kinda seems like a regulatory chill on the right of free speech
to me.
On March 12, the Union-Trib’s Logan Jenkins penned a
hilarious, must readpiece on the absurdity of it all,
writing that"Franz Kafka would love this stuff." An
excerpt:
For the next 2½
months, dozens of “closet candidates” for… Read More