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Article: Governor's veto of college foundation access bill criticized
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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Private foundations spend billions of dollars every year funding
college programs, yet those spending records will remain closed to
the public after a recent veto by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that
has enraged open-records advocates.
"The governor chose corruption and self-dealing over the public's
right to know," said Jim Ewart, a lawyer for the California
Newspaper Publishers Association, who lobbied for the bill.
Senate Bill 218, sponsored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San
Francisco, would have required Public Records Act disclosure of the
financial records of foundations that perform government functions
at the University of California and California State University
systems as well as ...