Opinion: Update public’s knowledge of money in California politics
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Opinion: Update public’s knowledge of money in California politics

Sen. Bob Hertzberg chose, appropriately, the first weekday of Sunshine Week to announce his bill that would shed much more light on California’s political campaign money.

Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, on Monday touted his Senate Bill 1349, which would drag Cal-Access – the state’s system that allows the public to check up on lobbyists and campaign donors and recipients — out of the digital dark ages of the turn of the century, where it’s been stuck.

The clunky, hard-to-use and frustrating Cal-Access system, set up 15 years ago and improved but little since, would be an embarrassment in any state. But it’s especially so in the state that’s home to Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley.

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