Results from Tuesday's Los Angeles election shows Measure H, a political reform measure backed by the California Clean Money Campaign, California Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, passed by a wide margin, with early results showing 75 percent of voters supporting the measure and 25 percent opposing it.
The measure has two key provisions. The first prevents bidders on city contracts from campaigning for or making donations to the politicians who will decide on those contracts. The second provision affects the City of Los Angeles' public financing program for political campaigns by lifting the cap on the city's public matching fund. Public financing proponents hope this will open up opportunities for candidates to be entirely publicly financed in the future. Supporters of public financing who were disappointed by recent ballot box defeats of statewide propositions will be cheered by this latest victory in Los Angeles.
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