Peace and Freedom Party of California

Legislative Committee

Kevin Akin, Riverside; Mary Lou Finley, San Diego; Ernesto Huerta, Los Angeles; Dave Kadlecek, Vice Chair, Sacramento; Tom Lacey, San Francisco; John Reiger, Chair, Sacramento; Alice Stek, Los Angeles; C. T. Weber, Legislative Liaison, Sacramento.

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March 15, 2026

 

Honorable Assembly Member Chris Rogers

1021 O Street, Suite 5130

Sacramento, CA 95814

 

Subject: AB 1984 (Rogers): Corporate powers. Support.

Dear Assembly Member Rogers,

The Peace and Freedom Party of California supports your AB 1984. We strongly support eliminating corporate monies and influences from our elections.  Removing the financial power of a corporation “to engage in ballot issue activity or election activity” would be a significant step in returning the election process to the people. Elected officials are servants of the people and should not be beholden to financial contributors of their election campaigns.

We do recognize that corporations would retain their First Amendment right of freedom of speech: this bill only restricts their financial ability.

Our preferred solution to the problem of financial manipulation of elections would be public funding of all election campaigns. And any public funding must not discriminate between candidates, it must be equal for all ballot qualified candidates.

We strongly support AB 1984 and the goal of restricting corporate financial influence in elections. For more information please contact me at reigers@earthlink.net or 916-207-4595.

Sincerely,

John C. Reiger

Chair, Legislative Committee

Peace and Freedom Party