Media Coverage

Here is a small sampling of media coverage of our efforts to ensure clean and accountable government in San Francisco.

October 27, 2005
San Francisco Bay Times
Supervisors Weigh Plan for Public Funding of Mayor’s Race
The LGBT press talks about the community's involvement in pushing for public campaign financing.

November 23, 2005
SF Examiner
Consider Funding S.F. Campaigns
The Examiner editorializes in favor of consideration of public funding for mayoral candidates.

December 28, 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Countering corporate cash
Coverage of the campaign for mayoral public financing prior to passage.

February 8, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle
Supervisors OK public financing for mayoral races
The Chronicle picks up on our successful year-long campaign to expand public campaign financing to the S.F. mayoral race.

February 9, 2006
Golden Gate Xpress
Mayoral Candidates Score Partial Public Funding
The youth is into it as well.

July 2, 2008
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Save SF's campaign finance program
Rob Arnow and Steve Hill penned this op-ed on a proposed raid of the public campaign financing fund.

August 25, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. supervisor races to test public financing
Coordinator Rob Arnow is quoted several times in this article on publicly funded Supervisorial races.