Entries from SFist tagged with 'fairpoliticalpracticescommission'
March 18, 2008
Somewhere Mark Leno is giggling, quietly. Today, state regulators handed Senator Carol Migden a $350,000 fine for 89 -- 89! -- campaign spending and disclosure violations. The abuses reach all the way back to 2003, and include illegal personal use of campaign funds. Ouch. According to the Sacramento Bee: The state's Fair Political Practices Commission on Tuesday released details of the San Francisco Democrat's transgressions, which also included misrepresenting spending, soliciting donations prior to......
Continue Reading "Sen. Carole Migden Receives $350,000 Fine for Campaign Violations"November 14, 2007
After paying up last year for disclosure violations, Senator Carole Migden is once again under investigation for not disclosing or itemizing credit card charges that total $397,000. According to the LA Times, she faces $60,000 in administrative fines if she's in breach, our Miss Migden has investigators looking all up in her credit card charging for over the past seven years. Yikes. The main cause of concern for not keeping tidy books is that......
Continue Reading "Carole and the Case of the $397,000"July 30, 2007
While we've been digesting the dueling banjos style competition for a Board of Supes Code of Conduct, we were left pickin' our skulls as to why the Supes don't already have a code of conduct? Seriously, right? The progressive bubble of San Francisco doesn't have a code of conduct for its Board of Supervisors, while such luminary cities as Simi Valley, Pismo Beach, Goleta and Fresno do? Sounds Crazy, right? Well, not so much.......
Continue Reading "Tsk, Tsk: A Little Background On Ethics"