Calif. Dark Money disclosure bill gets thru legislature and signed by Gov. Brown

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Historic victory against Dark Money!

We did it! Last week, Governor Brown signed SB 27, the bill to force Dark Money non-profits to reveal their secret funders in California elections.

Here's what I said about it in the Sacramento Bee:

“Governor Brown’s signature of SB 27 marks a turning point in the fight to reveal secret funders of political campaigns. It starts to shed light on dark money in California and serves as an example for the entire nation."

Sign the petition thanking Governor Brown for signing SB 27 and asking him to do even more!

Your petitions and calls worked! SB 27 became law after more than 40,000 people like you signed petitions. More than a thousand people applied extra pressure by calling their legislator.

SB 27 was a great coalition effort in which the California Clean Money Action Fund worked with not only the bill author Senator Lou Correa, the sponsor FPPC, and our CA campaign finance friends at California Common Cause, California Forward, and the League of Women Voters of California; but also with national organizations like Public Citizen, CREDO Mobile, Courage Campaign, Progressives United, Represent.Us, causes.com, MoveOn.org, Money Out Voters In Coalition, MapLight, Label GMOs: California's Grassroots, Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California, Moms Across America, and others.
It's important to thank leaders when they do the right thing -- sign to thank Governor Brown now!

Here's what the petition to Governor Brown says:

Thank you for fighting Dark Money by signing SB 27. Next, please finish the job by helping pass SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, to make sure political ads show who really pays for them.

Sign the petition thanking Governor Brown now!


Expanding the Movement: Clean Money vs. Big Money
The SB 27 victory is just the first of many battles over Big Money. We still have to make political ads show who really pays for them by passing the California DISCLOSE Act (SB 52). We must also overturn the Supreme Court's terribleCitizens United and McCutcheon decisions. Corporations are not people and money is not speech.

SB 27's victory over Dark Money is more than a huge step in the right direction -- it's proof that when we all work hard together, we can win. Many people didn't think SB 27 could pass after three Democratic Senators were suspended, so it needed the votes of at least two Republican Senators who hadn't voted for it before.

The voices of tens of thousands of engaged Californians calling on legislators to do the right thing is simply too much to ignore — especially in an election year. We will build on that for the California DISCLOSE Actand overturning Citizens United.

Much of the massive support required for this and future victories is generated through social media as thousands of people share petitions on Facebook and Twitter.

Build support on Facebook for the California DISCLOSE Act by "liking" it now!

Then follow Clean Money on Twitter if you're on Twitter.


Thanks again -- your activism is how we won this big victory-- and how we'll win the next ones!
For more details on SB 27, you can read our press release after Governor Brown signed it.

Here's the full story in the Sacramento Bee:
https://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/14/64...requiring.html
Thank you for standing with the California Clean Money Action Fund and our partners in the fight for fair elections, and stay tuned for more ways you can help other crucial bills like the California DISCLOSE Act and the Overturn Citizens United Act

Together, we will create a democracy that is truly of, by, and for the people.

Trent Lange
President, California Clean Money Action Fund