The Los Angeles Times offers this report, with the subhead: “Panel members want the City Council to adopt a ‘clean money’ system to end the need for donors.” An interesting snippet for those of us in the election law field who recall the Pew/Tregila controversy: “Commissioner Sean Treglia, however, opposes the proposal, saying court decisions creating loopholes in public-financing programs put their effectiveness in doubt. ‘I’m not convinced full public financing is the answer,’ he said. ‘A stepped-up form of partial public financing and some new regulations around issue advocacy, independent expenditure campaigns, may work.'”