Their response was to reach out to local community groups and national campaign finance reform groups to see if it was possible to create a new public financing system for the city. They copied and modified the popular system used in New York City, where every $1 from small donors is matched with $6 of public funds. The council adopted the new program on Dec. 14, and it's set to go into effect for the 2020 elections. City commissioners in Portland, Oregon, on Dec. 14 enacted asystem to publicly fund city elections. The California State Capitol. Berkeley was the first city to take advantage of the repeal when voters approved a public funding system on Nov. 8. Kathay Feng, executive director of Common Cause California, said Oakland and San Francisco will both be looking to expand their existing public funding systems by offering a bigger match of public dollars for small donations. Other cities are expected to create their own systems, too. Action at the federal level may be a long way off, but Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.),a leading advocate in Congress for public financing and other campaign finance reforms, said he believes success at the state and local level makes it easier to sell his colleagues on federal legislation. Aside from leading the push for public financing in Congress, Sarbanes has supported reforms in Montgomery County and Howard County in his home state of Maryland. He also travels the country to campaign for state and local reforms.
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