Oakland North: Oakland wants to give voters money to make campaign contributions
Oakland voters will be asked on the Nov. 8 ballot if they want the city to give each of them $100 in campaign vouchers that could be donated to the candidates of their choice.
The program would cost the city $4 million every two years. The City Council passed it Monday, with six votes in favor; Noel Gallo and Rebecca Kaplan were not present for the vote.
“If we want to increase democracy, if we want more people who are organizers in their communities to run for office, people who wouldn’t typically have the platform, or the capacity or the ability to run and win, this helps that happen,” Councilmember Carroll Fife said at the meeting.
