One of the campaigns attempting to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan from office is raising thousands of dollars to pay for professional signature gatherers. But the group, the Committee to Recall Mayor Quan Now, is refusing to disclose the identities of its donors or exactly how much it has raised. And under lax state reporting rules, the group doesn’t have to — at least not for six more weeks, by which time the group expects to have collected thousands of signatures. The same weak disclosure laws, meanwhile, also are allowing a group that formed to support Quan and fight the recall to keep its contributors secret until at least April 30 as well.
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