We need disclosure in political ads
By Bob Gerecke, Letter to the Editor
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, May 28th, 2013
Thank you for your May 9 editorial, "California needs bill
to rid campaign ads of anonymity." We need to bring
political ads out of the dark with clear disclosure of
who's paying for them by passing Senate Bill 52, the
California DISCLOSE Act.
Political ads can be self-serving, but many of them don't
even tell us who the "self" is. "Californians for Poor
Families" can be entirely funded by two junk food
billionaires, but you'd never know it by watching the
ads.
SB 52 will change that by requiring the top three funders
of proposition ads and super PAC ads to be clearly and
prominently shown on the ads themselves.
The votes of our area's state senators are needed. We
should all call and ask them to champion transparency and
disclosure by voting Yes on SB 52. It's up to them to save
us voters from being kept in the dark. Bill Emmerson's
number is 909-801-5040, Bob Huff's is 714-671-9474 and
Carol Liu's is 909-599-7351.
- Bob Gerecke, Claremont
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