Our Goals

1. To encourage a broad base support in California for Cynthia to run for President on the CA Primary Ballot! 
2. To raise a minimum of $5,000 toward Cynthia’s campaign, the trigger for filing her candidacy with the FEC. (See FEC brochure on Candidate Registration.)
3. To maintain the positive energy of the Green Party's 2007 National Meeting in Reading, PA, for CM to run for the Presidential nomination at the GPUS Nominating Convention in Chicago next July.
4. To begin the process of creating an action plan to address the issues Cynthia raised at the 2007 National Meeting. (See Cynthia's Action Plan )
5. To host Cynthia - in person - here in our BEAUTIFUL state, so she can see for herself how much we want her to run in California, and so she can share with us just what she wants and needs to be in our primary.(See Cynthia's Acceptance Letter )

excerpted from FEC Brochure on Public Funding of Presidential Campaigns

Primary Matching Funds

Partial public funding is available to Presidential primary candidates in the form of matching payments. The federal government will match up to $250 of an individual's total contributions to an eligible candidate.

Only candidates seeking nomination by a political party to the office of President are eligible to receive primary matching funds. In addition, a candidate must establish eligibility by showing broad-based public support. He or she must raise in excess of $5,000 in each of at least 20 states (i.e., over $100,000). Although an individual may contribute up to $2,300 to a primary candidate, only a maximum of $250 per individual applies toward the $5,000 threshold in each state.

Candidates also must agree to:

The campaign finance law exempts the payment of some expenses from the spending limits. Certain fundraising expenses (up to 20 percent of the expenditure limit) and legal and accounting expenses incurred solely to ensure the campaign's compliance with the law do not count against the expenditure limits.

Once they have established eligibility for matching payments, Presidential candidates may receive public funds to match contributions from individual contributors, up to $250 per individual. The contributions must be in the form of a check or money order. (Purchases of tickets to fundraisers and contributions collected through joint fundraising are matchable contributions, but loans, cash contributions, goods or services, contributions from political committees and contributions which are illegal under the campaign finance law are not matchable.)

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