Timothy McNulty | January 12, 2009
Dan Onorato and Luke Ravenstahl have called a noon press conference today to issue a joint city-county plan on campaign finance reform. More details here when we get it.
Of note: Onorato has some $4 million in the bank, and Ravenstahl about $1 million. Ravenstahl vetoed city finance reform in June.
UPDATE: Here's the breaking story from the P-G's Karamagi Rujumba:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Allegheny Count Executive Dan Onorato and Pittsburgh
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl this afternoon announced plans to introduce a campaign
finance law for both the city and county.
The legislation, which they will introduce to City and
County Council on Thursday, will limit personal donations to political campaigns
to $4,600 a year and Political Action Committees can give up to $10,000 a
year.
The draft legislation is still being reviewed, they
said, to determine how the law will deal with the so-called "millionaires'
exception"-- wealthy individuals who may choose to self-fund their
campaigns.
The proposed law would put restrictions in place
beginning in 2010.
Posted
Jan 12 2009, 11:14 AM
by
Timothy McNulty