In a move that could help his close friend and ally Don Perata, Oakland City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente is proposing to raise individual donation limits to $1,000 and increase total political expenditures by 40 percent in city elections. According to the Trib, De La Fuente unveiled his proposal yesterday at a council committee meeting. De La Fuente is selling his plan as a “compromise,” because an earlier proposal by City Attorney John Russo to raise donation limits to $1,400 and double the amount an Oakland politician can spend to get elected appears to be dead in the water.
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