Boyarsky: Spare us the reformers

After today's Ethics Commission meeting, the panel's vice president writes, "Give me a cynical old pol who at least keeps his or her word...We voted 4-1 to send a public campaign finance measure to the City Council. It's good but not perfect...Our enemies, as it turned out, were the reformers who once had been on our side. The reform organizations adopted a favorite lobbyist tactic, loving a bill to death." Read the newest LA Observed contributor's post.

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