MAKING IT RAIN: Campaign finance reform Initiative 122, which will be on the fall ballot, seeks to give everyone in Seattle up to $100 in “democracy vouchers.” Opponents have a lot to say about the idea. Is any of it true?
A couple weeks back, the Seattle City Council voted to send a new plan for campaign finance reform to the November ballot. Initiative 122 would give all Seattle voters four $25 “democracy vouchers,” for a total of $100 they could donate to candidates running for city office. The initiative would also put new limits on campaign donations and lobbying.
Council Member Mike O’Brien praised it as a way to “transform how we elect people in this city.”
Fifteen minutes later, political consultant Sandeep Kaushik…
