Public Financing Could End Pay to Play

The mayor of Los Angeles could go down in flames because of it, and the governor of California is turning out to be one of the biggest frauds in political history because of it.

I'm talking about money, money, money and more money. Specifically, I'm talking about political fundraising.

You are certainly entitled to believe that in the last city election, powerful Los Angeles business execs wrote campaign checks to Jim Hahn because they believed he would be an administrative genius and legislative visionary.

But by coincidence, some of Hahn's more generous donors have big fat city contracts. The mayor's challengers — all of whom have their own taint when it comes to fundraising — are accusing Hahn of running a pay-to-play City Hall, and federal investigators have their own questions.

LA Times

He lied his way into office and they need to rid the state of the vermon he is..IMO