State (CA) has no campaign finance documents for 'Save our License'

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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

State has no campaign finance documents for 'Save our License'
By SARA A. CARTER
STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - A committee trying to bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses has failed to report how much money its campaign has raised, according to the California Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State's Political Reform Division is investigating the Save Our License committee, an organization that has collected money and signatures since October 2003 to place various anti-illegal immigration measures on the ballot.

The group, which claims it has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars since it organized in October 2003, has not filed a single campaign finance report with the state - a violation of state campaign finance rules, according to the Secretary of State's office.

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Save Our License was founded by California Republican Assembly President Mike Spence to repeal a state law granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. That law was repealed by the Legislature at the urging of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vetoed a second bill to grant undocumented immigrants driver's licenses in September 2004.

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1. I've already seen petition signature gatherers and talked to them.

Best and brightest they're not.

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2. most of them aren't

they're usually paid by the signature and know the absolute basics about the petitions

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3. I asked if he was paid, and if he lived in the area, or was he brought in.

When he asked why I was asking, I told him that political operatives do that sort of thing routinely.

He said he lived in the nearby Navy housing with his sister. I was skeptical but thanked him for answering. He asked if I wanted to sign and I said, "No way!"