Blocking a poison pill isn’t as good as taking medicine, but it will do

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The California Clean Money Campaign alerted me to the fact that tonight’s Sunnyvale City Council Meeting would be discussing an advisory measure about the public financing of electoral campaigns... one which had been crafted as a poison pill that would pretty much guarantee that no one would vote for it. A number of people turned up to speak against the wording and for public financing, and the matter is postponed until January 2008. For the record, the only councilmembers who raised their hands when asked if they supported clean elections were Christopher R. Moylan and Melinda Hamilton; I suspect the poison pill is the result of a collaboration between Anthony Spitaleri and John Howe. Honorable mention to Otto Lee for bringing discussion of the measure from “last” to “#5 out of 9”.