Candidates call for new financial disclosures
…George Hartzman , who is running for a seat in District 3, said candidates shouldn’t take campaign contributions from anyone who does business with the city, including developers and contractors.
…Hartzman’s concept of voluntary “ethics reform” has met with the same kind of skepticism by other candidates — especially those who planned to raise money during the campaign season.
He got the idea from other cities with similar donation restrictions.
“The people who are doing business with the city are basically funding the political process,” Hartzman said…
Greensboro News and Record, Sunday, September 13, 2009
There seems to be a high correlation between those funding the political process and those receiving taxpayer money, which is legal in Greensboro, and which is why we should adopt Pay to Play Campaign Finance Reform, which would outlaw candidates and elected officials from accepting campaign contributions from entities with conflicts of interests, including leading members of organizations receiving taxpayer money, and/or developers, contractors or their lawyers or agents, for 12 months before and after doing business with our municipal government.
Excerpts from prepared remarks: George Hartzman, City Council Candidate Forum, Greensboro Historical Museum, September 8, 2009
Not Anyone.
Not Voluntary.
Time Restrictive.
How do Greensboro’s elected leaders explain to their kids, that they voted to spend someone else’s (taxpayer) money for contracts or grants, that benefit organizations or companies whose officers or owners contributed to their parents political campaigns?
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