You can find the complaint here. You can find an earlier post on the constitutional questions raised here. This issue will be of immediate importance in California. Although Assembly member Richman is a plaintiff in the case just filed as a candidate who wants to partially “control” Citizens to Save California, the real issue is Gov. Schwarzenegger’s degree of control, as he’s out there asking $100,000 to sit with him at a fundraiser for CSC, whose board is full of Schwarzenegger cronies. Because donations to Schwazenegger’s controlled California Recovery Team (which raised over $18 million in the last election cycle, many in six and seven figure donations) are now limited to $22,500, the extent to which Schwarzenegger will be successful in his expected special election depends in a large part on how this litigation goes. UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times story is here . The quote from me could be a bit misleading. My point about corruption and its appearance applies only to candidate-controlled ballot measure committees. You can find additional coverage of the lawsuit here, here, and here.